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Legends & Legacies
Side entrance of original tent during a concert intermission. Note the four tall supporting poles and inner rings of supporting poles.
Willoughby collection
The first tent went by several names, Goethe Music Festival Tent and Aspen Amphitheater, but very quickly earned the shorter moniker “the tent.” Walter Paepcke constructed it for the Goethe Bicentennial. A constrained budget and the thought it would be temporary or one time use only structure restrained its design. It endured for 15 years and became the home of the Music Festival.
The budget for the project was $60,000 ($550,000 in today’s dollars). It stretched 147 feet wide and seated 1,000 depending on how close people sat to each other. There were basically three components, a concrete bowl that dropped nine feet to its center to provide raked seating so patrons would not have obstructed views, a permanent stage-acoustics structure, and a canvas tent for summer use only that would ....

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