Category: Music Education
The Joint Music Education Program at UCLA Center X
Professor Lily Chen-Hafteck explains how The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music is helping educate the next generation of music educators.…
Music Partnership Program Celebrates 30 Years
Now in its thirtieth year, the Music Partnership Program is a vital part of The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s community engagement programs. The program is supported entirely through generous philanthropy.
Jacob Collier Talks Contemporary Musicianship at Schoenberg Hall
Photos by Erica Hou On Tuesday night, February 6, the line that had formed several hours earlier snaked out of Schoenberg Hall and down the steps. Those who braved the…
Where Have All the Pianos Gone? Inna Faliks on the Necessity of Music Education
Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Professor Inna Faliks describes the importance of music education to nurturing young people’s souls, and how we might all create a more empathetic, robust…
School of Music Alumnus Wins Tony Award
Alumnus Danny Feldman (2002) was not really surprised when the Pasadena Playhouse won the Tony for Best Regional Theater. After all, when he took over the reins of the venerable playhouse in…
Professor Explores Different Cultures through Traditional Music in Fiat Lux Seminar
Lily Chen-Hafteck believes music can create harmonious feelings in people of all cultural backgrounds. The professor of music education explores how music is a form of cultural expression in her Fiat Lux seminar, Music 19: “Celebrating Cultural Diversity of Immigrants through Music.” Chen-Hafteck said the course aims to deepen appreciation for the United States’ multicultural society by teaching students about the relationship between music and cultural empathy. Because of the smaller classroom environment, she said students are able to engage and share music from their own cultural backgrounds with one another.
Leading the Way in Music Education
The California All State Music Education Conference (CASMEC) is a huge affair, attracting California’s educators and all-state secondary and middle school musicians. Student performers mingle with professional musicians and the…
Honoring Kurtág
It was 2004 and Movses Pogossian was preparing the legendary Hungarian composer György Kurtág’s famously intricate Kafka Fragments with soprano Tony Arnold. On a whim, they contacted the composer to…
Music Education Hire Johanna Gamboa-Kroesen Puts Students First
Johanna Gamboa-Kroesen was driving back to her house when the call came. “I was driving down one of those beautiful rural highways in New England, in the woods,” recalled Gamboa-Kroesen.…