In 1925, UCLA established the annual Faculty Research Lectures to recognize two Academic Senate members with exceptional achievement in research and creative endeavors. Ray Knapp, distinguished professor of musicology, disability studies and humanities at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, will deliver the 138th lecture, entitled "How Music(ology) Saves Lives."

From the LA Times: “Neal Stulberg led an intense, brilliant, riveting performance of Mahler’s most agitated symphony, the 80-minute Sixth (known as the “Tragic”).”

This year’s meeting marked the 70th anniversary of Mantle Hood’s arrival at UCLA. Hood’s visionary establishment of an institute of ethnomusicology (later to become the ethnomusicology department) made UCLA a