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YOLA National Festival: Power in Storytelling

Part I: Gustavo Dudamel with YOLA National Symphony Orchestra, YOLA National Overture Chamber Music Program

Free and open to the public!

Gustavo Dudamel with YOLA National (Conducting August 4 Program)

YOLA National Students

Kalena Bovell (Conducting August 11 Program)

Jessica Rivero Altarriba (Conducting August 4 Program)

YOLA National Festival: Power in Storytelling

Mon Aug 4, 2025 7pm Walt Disney Concert Hall

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LA Phil Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel and guest conductor Jessica Rivero Altarriba lead a performance by YOLA National Symphony Orchestra featuring richly illustrated works by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Manuel de Falla, Gustav Mahler, and Dámaso Pèrez Prado. The evening begins with the debut of the YOLA National Overture Chamber Music Program.

This free performance is part of YOLA National Festival: Power in Storytelling, a 14-day orchestra intensive that brings together young musicians from El Sistema-inspired programs nationwide, providing them with world-class music instruction and mentorship. The program, including travel, lodging, and all instruction, is entirely free for all participants.

This year's festival, titled Power in Storytelling, showcases the inaugural YOLA National Festival Chamber Music Programs! The YOLA National Symphony and Overture Chamber Music programs offer supplemental weeklong intensives dedicated to chamber music ensemble training for our highest-level orchestral musicians. Over the course of the intensive musicians receive specialized coaching from our esteemed chamber music faculty, as well as structured rehearsal and technique workshops to strengthen their performance skills. We are ecstatic to welcome these new ensembles to YOLA National Festival!

Performances take place in Walt Disney Concert Hall and are two hours long with a 15-minute intermission. Space is limited. Reserve FREE tickets to this event now!

Learn more about the YOLA National Festival and YOLA programs.

Family and/or Sing-Along | Classical

Program

YOLA National Overture Chamber Music Program:

Hiroshi TANAKA
arr. Megumi SMITH

Tornado

Alan MENKEN
arr. John VAN GULIK

“Beauty and the Beast”

J.S. BACH
arr. CUMMINGS

"Sheep May Safely Graze," BWV 208

HAYDN
arr. PERRY

Divertimento in D major

GOEPFART

Wind Quartet, Op. 93

HOLST
arr. Kenneth ABELING

Second Suite in F for Military Band, Op. 28, No. 2

Movement IV from String Quartet in C major, Op. 20, No. 4

Movement I from Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20

GEMINIANI
arr. Michi WIANCKO

Concerto Grosso in D minor, “La Follia”

GREEN
arr. Bob BECKER

“The Ragtime Robin”

YOLA National Symphony Orchestra:

Kings Row Fanfare

The Three-Cornered Hat, Suite No. 2

c. 12 minutes

Stürmisch bewegt from Symphony No. 1 in D major, "Titan"

PÉREZ PRADO
arr. Jean TOUSSAINT

Nos. 5 & 8 from Suite de Mambos de Pèrez Prado

YOLA National Symphony Orchestra

YOLA National Overture Chamber Music Program

Gustavo Dudamel

conductor

Jessica Rivero Altarriba

Symphony Orchestra Conductor