Category: Lowell Milken Center
Walking that Line between Art and Entertainment
An Interview with Composer Tod Machover Hailed as “a composer biography like no other” (The Boston Globe) and praised for its “ingenious music” (The Wall Street Journal), Tod Machover’s opera…
Mostly Kosher Shares Klezmer Rock Music and Jewish Culture with UCLA
Brought to UCLA by the Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience, Mostly Kosher treated a Lani Hall audience with an evening of klezmer music with multiple influences. “The…
The Shofar and the Student
Trumpet Student Remy Ohara’s sounding of the shofar resonated across the globe. Read the full story by PJ Grisar in The Forward.…
A Week of Music and Justice
Thousands witnessed three days of "Music and Justice" hosted by the Lowell Milken Center for Music of the American Jewish Experience. Many came to see Darius, Chris and Dan Brubeck on stage, to hear two world premieres, or to catch glimpse of real life freedom riders. But the week was much more than that. The Brubecks visited classes, jammed with students, and reflected on their father's legacy at a conference.
A Dave Brubeck Cantata Boasts Star Soloists: His Sons
“Want to give us a blast?” the bassist Chris Brubeck asked the young woman in a music studio at the University of California, Los Angeles, on Wednesday morning. Remy Ohara lifted a long, corkscrewing shofar to her lips and blew a resonant call. Brubeck had brought a few other shofars with him as options, but it was clear from the moment Ohara, a sophomore trumpet student, started playing that this one had what he was looking for.
UCLA Composer's "Dear Freedom Rider" Honors 1960s Civil Rights Activists
When composer and UCLA instructor Diane White-Clayton was commissioned to create a new work for the sweeping “Music and Justice” concert being presented by UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music and the…
Music and Justice Program Features Brubeck Sons and World Premieres by UCLA Faculty
On Sunday, Feb. 26, Brubeck’s “The Gates of Justice” will be performed at Royce Hall as part of “Music and Justice,” a series by the Lowell Milken Center for Music of the Jewish…
Conversations: a Year in Words and Music
After a year of writing weekly essays about music and American Jewish experience, the author offers some highlights.
The Beth El Choir: singing against lost time
Over the course of a year of participation in a cantorial choir the author has sought insight into a historical form of prayer leading, a nearly lost art of improvised Jewish vocal music