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Alan Gerry: Bethel Woods
built 657 days ago
During the last decade Mr. Gerry quietly amassed property surrounding the Woodstock site, including a neighboring farm where the sleek concert pavilion is now. His architect, Paul E. Westlake Jr., is Mr. Gerry's third, after he dismissed Richard Meier, designer of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, for a concept that ''looked like a flying saucer,'' Mr. Gerry said. The interior of the Woodstock museum integrates local stone and wood beams in an attempt to recall the ad hoc, lashed-timber-and-canvas structures on the original concert site.
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In 1997, the concert place and 1,400 surrounding acres were bought by Alan Gerry, and have become the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. It opened on July 1 2006 with the New York Philharmonic playing. On August 13 2006, Crosby Stills Nash & Young amazed 16,000 fans at the new Center -- exactly 37 years after they played at Woodstock.
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Gerry wants to construct a multi-building performing arts center on and around the site of the original Woodstock Music and Art Fair. His $40 million plan would include a museum dedicated to the 1960s, retail and food vendors, and several concert venues, including an open-air stage on the exact spot where Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin performed 34 years ago.
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Gerry, a registered Republican, gave $20,000 to the Schumer-led Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the maximum allowed of $9,200 to Clinton's primary and general election fund. These donations came days after the appropriations committee passed the health spending bill on June 21 with the Woodstock earmark. The Gerry family has given $150,000 to Schumer's Senatorial Campaign Committee since 2005.
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Gerry was a most-demanding client. Westlake Reed Leskosky was the third architect hired for the Bethel Woods project. One of those dismissed was museum designer Richard Meier, whom Gerry sacked for turning in a concept that Gerry reportedly thought “looked like a flying saucer.”
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Throughout its many transformations, one component of Alan Gerry's vision for the Bethel Woods Center remained steadfast: the New York Philharmonic would inaugurate the facility. To accommodate this central part of the vision, JaffeHolden incorporated an orchestral shell into the pavilion design.
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