About this Performance

On March 7, 2026, the LA Phil premiered The Great Wall of Los Angeles concert, featuring new music inspired by Judy Baca’s monumental public artwork. For more than five decades, Baca’s mural has traced histories often left out of official narratives—stories painted across concrete, carried by the hands of young people, and rooted in the communities of Los Angeles. Now, those histories resound in music.

In Listening to the Great Wall of Los Angeles, an exhibition curated by LA Phil Insight with the Social and Public Art Resource Center, you will encounter the mural’s origins and its community-driven process; the stories embedded in its imagery; the partnership between SPARC and the LA Phil; and the composers who translated painted histories into sound. You will glimpse how visual research becomes musical gesture, how collective memory becomes orchestration, and how a public artwork along a river can echo inside a concert hall and beyond.

Listening to the Great Wall of Los Angeles is on view at the Walt Disney Concert Hall Library of Congress / Ira Gershwin Gallery through September 7, 2026. The exhibition is open to ticketholders before concerts and free to the public from 10AM to 3 PM daily when visiting Walt Disney Concert Hall on a self-guided tour.

LA Phil Insight is generously supported by Linda and David Shaheen.

Support for the SPARC and LA Phil collaboration around The Great Wall of Los Angeles is provided by the Hillenburg Family.

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