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Kamasi Washington’s Epic, 100-Musician LACMA Performance Gets L.A.’s Buzziest Space Off to a Brilliant Start: Concert Review
Kamasi Washington's 100-musician jazz performance inside the empty, recently completed LACMA galleries was a strong, symbolic start for the museum.
The new David Geffen Galleries, which will not open for art exhibition purposes until April 2026, encompass 110,000 square feet, on the upper floor of a new 350,000-foot concrete building that begins on the historical LACMA campus and extends across Wilshire Blvd. That was too tall an order for most, and although talking would normally be a buzz-kill during a Washington performance (like the ones he’s got booked coming up at L.A.’s new Blue Note club), it’s hard to blame 2,000 folks caught up in something this experiential for keeping up a low murmur. But some of the stages had as few as a couple dozen onlookers at a time, all attentive and respectful, and it was possible to become enraptured in at least a singular performance at these less crowded spots, even if the overlap was limited mostly to whatever was happening in a particular conductor’s in-ears.
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