Commentary: Youth orchestras expose the good and bad karma of the Super Bowl
by Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times
Feb 14, 2022
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — It’s one short 30-minute walk from the new Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center in downtown Inglewood to the new SoFi Stadium. But on Super Bowl Sunday, the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles made a pretty big leap.
This was not the first time YOLA made an appearance at the Super Bowl. In 2016, the orchestra backed Coldplay, Beyoncé and Bruno Mars during the halftime show, with Gustavo Dudamel conducting. Yesterday members of YOLA appeared on the
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