Last month, architect Frank Gehry and Los Angeles Philharmonic CEO Chad Smith gave me a masked hard-hat tour of the nearly finished Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center at Inglewood. Gehry’s reimagining of an abandoned bank building may not be able to satisfy all the demands for systemic change that have been directed toward classical music privilege. But it just may be the single most heartening start.
Before then, the center may well begin to work its wonders by piquing the curiosity of passersby. The front will be all glass. Walking by or waiting for a bus, you will see young musicians from the community rehearsing or performing, day and night, in an airy, light-filled, sophisticated, gorgeous state-of-the-art building designed for them and equipped with acoustics by Disney Hall’s
A model of the Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center at Inglewood, whose mission is to develop a new, more diverse generation of musicians.
I was thinking the very same thing. It must be that darn systemic racism preventing DaBaby from releasing a classical album. After all when one thinks of the classical music, they can’t help but think of Mozart, Beethoven, and DaBaby.
Diversity of quality? Like even sucky music deserves attention lmao.
horrible
FFS