Team Disney

“The Path to Disney Hall” (Aug. 16) was terrific in giving a sense of the magnificent concert hall complex that will rise in the heart of downtown Los Angeles over the next three years.

However, in referencing the fund-raising leadership, you neglected to include Andrea Van de Kamp, chairman of the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County. Van de Kamp, along with Mayor Riordan and Eli Broad, were the team that inspired the private and public funding to ensure Disney Hall’s completion as one of the century’s most culturally and architecturally significant buildings.

It is equally important to note the county of Los Angeles’ strong partnership and commitment to realizing Disney Hall.

WILLIAM E.B. SIART

Chairman, Walt Disney

Concert Hall, Los Angeles

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Many poor immigrants from Mexico and Central America left shacks covered with corrugated tin siding in their home country for a better life in the United States.

Imagine their surprise when they encounter a larger and grander version of their tin shack on 1st Street and Grand Avenue in Los Angeles. Obviously Frank O. Gehry’s inspiration for this embarrassing monstrosity was the slums of Tijuana or the favelas of Rio.

JAMES B. DAVIS

Los Angeles

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When the big one hits, how will we determine whether Disney Hall has been destroyed?

J.W. McWILLIAMS

Long Beach