If You Build It, They Might Come, For A While

Orange County, California (just outside of Los Angeles) has a beautiful new concert hall, and big plans to make use of it. But will the public care enough to keep coming to the hall once the novelty has worn off? “Behind the scenes and off the record, the classical powers that be are worrying and wondering about the outcome… There is a great deal of casual interest in classical music here, but connoisseurship doesn’t seem to run deep.”