Frank Gehry | With esperanza spalding, Gustavo Dudamel, YOLA, and Julian Rose | Gagosian Premieres
The eighth episode of Gagosian Premieres celebrates “Frank Gehry: Spinning Tales”—an exhibition of contemporary work presented at Gagosian, Beverly Hills—that contains musical performances by esperanza spalding and Gustavo Dudamel and YOLA (Early life Orchestra Los Angeles), and a conversation between Frank Gehry and Julian Rose performed in Gehry’s Los Angeles studio.
On this episode, acclaimed jazz bassist, singer, and songwriter esperanza spalding performs a contemporary original ranking in an improvised efficiency in the gallery. The music’s sinuous, free-flowing quality echoes the piscine forms on hit upon. spalding has collaborated with Gehry beforehand, and they also’re at value working collectively on “Iphigenia,” a contemporary opera impressed by the Greek mythological resolve.
Gehry has been fervent with the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 1970. The Gehry-designed Walt Disney Live efficiency Hall, which homes the orchestra this day, opened in 2003, whereas the Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Heart at Inglewood, which Gehry designed as YOLA’s first permanent, motive-built facility, will launch in August 2021. Launched in 2007, the YOLA program has democratized music training for varsity students faded 5 to 18 from LA neighborhoods. It at value supports more than 1,300 younger musicians across four websites, providing them with free devices, music instruction, academic enhance, and leadership coaching, beneath the route of Gustavo Dudamel.
Dudamel, music and inventive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducts an ensemble of fifteen YOLA musicians. Surrounded by Gehry’s sculptures, they assemble the first movement of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto no. 3. And interior Gehry’s set up “Wishful Contemplating,” YOLA cellist Natalie Avila performs the gigue from the composer’s Suite for Solo Cello no. 2.
Architectural historian and critic Julian Rose visits Gehry in his studio to debate the making of the current artworks and their multivalent connections to his architectural apply, whereas Tomas Osinski, Sophie Lauriault, and Tae Park—all shut collaborators on the production of Gehry’s initiatives—offer a tour of the architect’s studio, sharing their insights into the technical and procedural complexities of his apply.
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Artwork © Frank Gehry. Video: Minute Dot Studios
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