BETHEL WOODS, N.Y., Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Construction has begun on the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in the New York community where the first Woodstock Festival was held in a muddy field in 1969.
David E. Carlucci, president and executive director of the new project, said this week that a tentative date of July 1, 2006, has been set for opening the center with an inaugural concert by the New York Philharmonic.
The center will have a 4,800-seat pavilion with lawn seating for 12,000 in the style of the Tanglewood Festival in Massachusetts and New York's Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
Carlucci comes to the Bethel Woods Center from the House of Blues Concerts in the Midwest, of which he was general manager of an operation including the Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, the Scene Pavilion Theater in Cleveland, and the Timberwolf Amphitheater at Kings Island near Cincinnati. He was on the staff of the Saratoga Center for 17 years.
