A detailed look at the Musco Center for the Arts

The Marybelle and Sebastian P. Musco Center for the Arts at Chapman University will serve primarily as a performing venue for the school’s students, though it also will host visiting performers and ensembles. A bust of Ella Fitzgerald stands in the courtyard.

A bust of Ella Fitzgerald sits outside the front of the Musco Center for the Arts at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.

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Chapman University, which has been expanding in recent years, opened the Musco Center for the Arts in March 2016. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Acoustics were overseen by Yasuhisa Toyota, who also worked on Walt Disney Concert Hall.

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Artwork at the Musco Center.

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Sebastian Paul Musco and his wife, Marybelle, provided nearly half of the performing arts center’s $82-million construction cost. They pose here in their Irvine penthouse.

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