{"id":29717,"date":"2021-08-05T10:12:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T15:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hub.americanorchestras.org\/?p=29717"},"modified":"2021-08-05T10:12:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T15:12:07","slug":"la-phils-new-yola-center-prepares-to-open-for-fall-classes-grand-opening-on-hold-as-city-responds-to-covid-19-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/symphony.org\/la-phils-new-yola-center-prepares-to-open-for-fall-classes-grand-opening-on-hold-as-city-responds-to-covid-19-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Phil\u2019s new YOLA Center prepares to open for fall classes; grand opening on hold as city responds to COVID-19 surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29718\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29718\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29718\" src=\"https:\/\/hub.americanorchestras.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/800x400-YOLA-students-at-new-Inglewood-center.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students on stage at the LA Phil\u2019s new\u00a0Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center in downtown Inglewood, in Los Angeles County. Photo: Joshua White<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn just over a decade, Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA), led by LA Phil Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, has become one of the country\u2019s most influential music education programs,\u201d writes Victoria Looseleaf in Monday\u2019s (8\/2) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfcv.org\/articles\/music-news\/youth-orchestra-los-angeles-pulls-curtain-its-new-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>San Francisco Classical Voice<\/em><\/a>. \u201cAnd now \u2026 YOLA at Inglewood will be the program\u2019s fifth site (YOLA currently operates at four locations in L.A.), \u2026 the first to be situated at its own dedicated home: the Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center (BYC)\u2026. The Center \u2026 is expected to begin classes in the fall. A planned grand opening in August has been put on hold pending the course of the Delta variant in the L.A. region. Designed by Frank Gehry, this former bank building in downtown Inglewood has been transformed into a 25,000-square-foot purpose-built facility that will expand the existing YOLA programs\u2026. The Center\u2019s \u2026 Edgerton Foundation Performance Hall [is] equal in size to that of Walt Disney Concert Hall, with collapsible seating for up to 272 people\u2026. There are also spaces for \u2026 practice studios, large ensemble rooms, \u2026 a choir room \u2026 a technology-enabled classroom, a music library, instrument storage areas, and office and meeting spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn just over a decade, Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA), led by LA Phil Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, has become one of the country\u2019s most influential music education programs,\u201d writes Victoria Looseleaf in Monday\u2019s (8\/2) San Francisco Classical Voice. \u201cAnd now \u2026 YOLA at Inglewood will be the program\u2019s fifth site (YOLA currently<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/symphony.org\/la-phils-new-yola-center-prepares-to-open-for-fall-classes-grand-opening-on-hold-as-city-responds-to-covid-19-surge\/\" title=\"ReadLA Phil\u2019s new YOLA Center prepares to open for fall classes; grand opening on hold as city responds to COVID-19 surge\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"topic":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LA Phil\u2019s new YOLA Center prepares to open for fall classes; grand opening on hold as city responds to COVID-19 surge - Symphony<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/symphony.org\/la-phils-new-yola-center-prepares-to-open-for-fall-classes-grand-opening-on-hold-as-city-responds-to-covid-19-surge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LA Phil\u2019s new YOLA Center prepares to open for fall classes; grand opening on hold as city responds to COVID-19 surge - Symphony\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cIn just over a decade, Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA), led by LA Phil Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, has become one of the country\u2019s most influential music education programs,\u201d writes Victoria Looseleaf in Monday\u2019s (8\/2) San Francisco Classical Voice. \u201cAnd now \u2026 YOLA at Inglewood will be the program\u2019s fifth site (YOLA currently... 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