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[[File:Gala opening of J.F.K. Performing Arts Center (Presidential box - Kennedy family, including Rose Kennedy) (cropped1).jpg|thumb|[[Rose Kennedy]] and [[Ted Kennedy]] in the presidential box during the center's opening gala on September 8, 1971]]
[[File:Gala opening of J.F.K. Performing Arts Center (Presidential box - Kennedy family, including Rose Kennedy) (cropped1).jpg|thumb|[[Rose Kennedy]] and [[Ted Kennedy]] in the presidential box during the center's opening gala on September 8, 1971]]


President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] dug the ceremonial first-shovel of earth at the [[groundbreaking]] for the Kennedy Center December 2, 1964.<ref name="meersman-p560">{{cite journal |last=Meersman |first=Roger |title=The Kennedy Center: From Dream to Reality |journal=Records of the Columbia Historical Society |year=1980 |volume=50 |page=560}}</ref> However, debate continued for another year over the [[Foggy Bottom]] site, with some advocating for another location on [[Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.)|Pennsylvania Avenue]].<ref name="meersman-p564">{{cite journal |last=Meersman |first=Roger |title=The Kennedy Center: From Dream to Reality |journal=Records of the Columbia Historical Society |year=1980 |volume=50 |page=564}}</ref> [[Earthworks (engineering)|Excavation]] of the site got underway on December 11, 1965, and the site was cleared by January 1967.<ref name="meersman-p568">{{cite journal |last=Meersman |first=Roger |title=The Kennedy Center: From Dream to Reality |journal=Records of the Columbia Historical Society |year=1980 |volume=50 |pages=568–569}}</ref>
President Lyndon B. Johnson dug the ceremonial first-shovel of earth at the [[groundbreaking]] for the Kennedy Center December 2, 1964.<ref name="meersman-p560">{{cite journal |last=Meersman |first=Roger |title=The Kennedy Center: From Dream to Reality |journal=Records of the Columbia Historical Society |year=1980 |volume=50 |page=560}}</ref> However, debate continued for another year over the [[Foggy Bottom]] site, with some advocating for another location on [[Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.)|Pennsylvania Avenue]].<ref name="meersman-p564">{{cite journal |last=Meersman |first=Roger |title=The Kennedy Center: From Dream to Reality |journal=Records of the Columbia Historical Society |year=1980 |volume=50 |page=564}}</ref> [[Earthworks (engineering)|Excavation]] of the site got underway on December 11, 1965, and the site was cleared by January 1967.<ref name="meersman-p568">{{cite journal |last=Meersman |first=Roger |title=The Kennedy Center: From Dream to Reality |journal=Records of the Columbia Historical Society |year=1980 |volume=50 |pages=568–569}}</ref>


The first performance was September 5, 1971, with 2,200 members of the general public in attendance to see a premiere of [[Leonard Bernstein]]'s ''[[Mass (theatre)|Mass]]'' in the Opera House,<ref name="nyt-robertson" /> while the center's official opening took place September 8, 1971, with a formal gala and premiere performance of the Bernstein ''Mass''.<ref name="nyt-09021971">{{cite news |title=Kennedy Hall Gets Acoustics Workout | work=The New York Times |date=September 2, 1971 |author-link=Harold C. Schonberg| last=Schonberg |first=Harold C. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/09/02/archives/kennedy-hall-gets-acoustics-workout.html |url-access=subscription}}</ref> The Concert Hall was inaugurated September 9, 1971, with a performance by the [[National Symphony Orchestra (United States)|National Symphony Orchestra]] conducted by [[Antal Doráti]].<ref name="nyt-09021971" /> [[Alberto Ginastera]]'s opera, ''[[Beatrix Cenci]]'' premiered at the Kennedy Center Opera House September 10, 1971. The Eisenhower Theater was inaugurated October 18, 1971, with a performance of ''[[A Doll's House]]'' starring [[Claire Bloom]].<ref name="chitrib">{{cite news |title=Eisenhower Theater Opening Performance Seen by Nixons| newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]| date=October 19, 1971| last=Hutchinson| first=Louise| url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1971/10/19/page/9/article/eisenhower-theater-opening-performance-seen-by-nixons}}</ref>
The first performance was September 5, 1971, with 2,200 members of the general public in attendance to see a premiere of [[Leonard Bernstein]]'s ''[[Mass (theatre)|Mass]]'' in the Opera House,<ref name="nyt-robertson" /> while the center's official opening took place September 8, 1971, with a formal gala and premiere performance of the Bernstein ''Mass''.<ref name="nyt-09021971">{{cite news |title=Kennedy Hall Gets Acoustics Workout | work=The New York Times |date=September 2, 1971 |author-link=Harold C. Schonberg| last=Schonberg |first=Harold C. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/09/02/archives/kennedy-hall-gets-acoustics-workout.html |url-access=subscription}}</ref> The Concert Hall was inaugurated September 9, 1971, with a performance by the [[National Symphony Orchestra (United States)|National Symphony Orchestra]] conducted by [[Antal Doráti]].<ref name="nyt-09021971" /> [[Alberto Ginastera]]'s opera, ''[[Beatrix Cenci]]'' premiered at the Kennedy Center Opera House September 10, 1971. The Eisenhower Theater was inaugurated October 18, 1971, with a performance of ''[[A Doll's House]]'' starring [[Claire Bloom]].<ref name="chitrib">{{cite news |title=Eisenhower Theater Opening Performance Seen by Nixons| newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]| date=October 19, 1971| last=Hutchinson| first=Louise| url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1971/10/19/page/9/article/eisenhower-theater-opening-performance-seen-by-nixons}}</ref>
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