For the bicentennial of the city of Los Angeles, “The City of Our Lady Queen of the Angels on the river Porciúncula”, Tony Duquette, a native son, created a gift for the city to celebrate its poetic and evocative name. For this exhibition, which Duquette called “a celebrational environment” was created with the help of 150 unskilled and untrained volunteers from every ethnic and economic background. The artist created eight, twenty-eight foot tall archangels, four magnificent altars to the elements – air, earth, fire and water – and a series of monumental, jewel-studded fabric mosaic tapestries. {read}
Music for Our Lady Queen of the Angels is the first solo album by Canadian multi-instrumentalist Garth Hudson, released in 1980 (see 1980 in music).
The album is a soundtrack for a special installation for exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of Science and Industry by sculptor Tony Duquette. The title is a reference to Our Lady Queen of the Angels and the naming of the Pueblo de Los Angeles.