But don't get me wrong: Walt Disney Hall is not a waste of $274 million. Its in-the-round auditorium looks and sounds very good, even if the amazing exploding organ, pipes all over the place, is like something out of Fantasia. The auditorium works in a way that the confusing foyers certainly do not. It is a big social space, to see and be seen as well as to hear. It even has daylight washing down into it, a rare pleasure in a concert hall. So when the hoo-haa over the external architecture has died down, and Angelinos realize they have a fairly standard Gehry building on the outside, they might just come to appreciate the calmer, more civic quality of the experience within. Especially as they will have driven in 20 miles to hear it.