It serves 1,500 students, from ages 5 to 18, who come to study, practice and perform music on instruments provided by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The $23.5 million project is a high-water mark for YOLA, the youth music education program that was founded here 15 years ago under Dudamel and that he calls the signature achievement of his tenure. What we have there is a stage of the same dimensions as Disney Hall.” “Then it was a Burger King - yes, a Burger King! Frank saw the potential. “This was an old bank,” said Dudamel, who has long been friends with Gehry, a classical music lover who can often be spotted in the seats of the hall he designed. Construction is underway on an 18,000-seat arena for the Los Angeles Clippers, the basketball team. Inglewood, a working-class city three miles from Los Angeles Airport that was once plagued by crime and poverty, is in the midst of a high-profile, largely sports-driven economic transformation: The 70,000-seat SoFi Stadium, which opened here last year, now the home of the Rams and the Chargers, will be the site of the Super Bowl in February and will be used in the 2028 Summer Olympics. Beckmen YOLA Center, her voice muffled by a mask. “This is beautiful,” Guzman said during a break from a practice session at the Judith and Thomas L. Noemi Guzman, a 17-year-old high school senior, usually has to find a corner someplace to practice violin - the instrument she calls “quite literally, the love of my life.” But the other Saturday morning, Guzman joined a string ensemble practicing on a stage here that is nearly as grand and acoustically tuned as the place she dreams of performing one day: Walt Disney Concert Hall, the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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