We listen in on the first acoustical test of the new Beckmen YOLA Center in Inglewood, which promises to be revolutionary.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic and its Youth Orchestra Los Angeles recently tried out the nearly completed Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center. That is the dilapidated former bank building and Burger King in downtown Inglewood that architect Frank Gehry has transformed into a fabulous performance space and teaching facility for young musicians.
It would be hard to imagine a less proper acoustic assessment, or a better real world one. The ensemble of student string players spent the pandemic practicing at home and taking instruction via Zoom. Yet their assignment, on only their third time back together, was the tricky first movement of Bach’s Fourth “Brandenburg” Concerto. This also happened to be their introduction to a new hall with a startlingly lively presence unlike any venue they’d ever experienced.
I have a half-baked acoustical theory for new concert halls. If anything at all sounds OK at first, then you can figure that the hall will work, no matter how troubling its defects. Toyota, who is the most mysteriously patient of acousticians, is even more radical. His notion is simply to wait. If nothing is terribly wrong, he leaves it up to musicians and audiences to come to terms with a space.
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