I couldn’t find much information on this night shot of an orchestra playing on the stage of the Hollywood Bowl. But what I do know is that we’re looking at the second incarnation of the bowl. The first version wasn’t successful, aesthetically or acoustically, and only lasted one year. In 1927, Lloyd Wright (son of Frank Lloyd Wright) designed a new pyramidal-shaped bowl and that’s the one we’re seeing in this photo. Visually, it’s quite arresting and apparently it was the most acoustically successful of the bowls—perhaps because of that enormous flattened dome suspended above the musicians. But it was considered a little too avant-garde and was replaced two years later by the famed concentric circles.