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Catherine Provenzano Talks Autotune and Modern Music
From the NY Times: Autotune is ubiquitous, and Catherine Provenzano, musicologist and music industry professor, helps explain it.
A Legacy in Blue and Gold: Unveiling the new Fierberg Family Band Room
By Robert Baker Marching band is community. It is family. It is life. Just ask Joel and Karen Fierberg. Music alum Joel Fierberg marched at UCLA from 1978 to 1982.
Dean Beckerman's New Book Asks Whether Meaning in Art Can Ever Be Shared
OUT NOW: Dean Michael Beckerman’s new book, “The Doctrine of One: Personal Encounters with Film, Art and Music,” explores one of the most intriguing questions in the humanities: Can meaning
Album Drop: Inna Faliks, "Stranger Things"
Inna Faliks, professor of piano performance, had just released her new CD “Stranger Things: Piano Works From a Young Refugee’s Backpack” with Navona Records. A highly personal collage of musical
In Memoriam Mitchell Morris
By Robert Fink UCLA Professor Emeritus Mitchell Morris (64), of Cathedral City, California, passed away peacefully on August 17, 2026 after a long illness. Following appointments at McGill and the
From Punk Rock to PhD, Candace Hansen Documents Queer Music
From Daily Bruin — Candace Hansen, alumnus of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, will soon make their final stop on a two-decades-long tour of making the case for
UCLA VEM String Quartet Conducts Six-City Tour
From the Armenian Mirror-Spectator — The UCLA Vem String Quartet, during a spring tour sponsored and planned by the Tekeyan Cultural Association (TCA) and the UCLA Armenian Music Program, gave
Tiffany Naiman Breaks Down the World Cup Halftime Entertainment Show
FROM WIRED: Tiffany Naiman, director of the Berry Gordy Music Industry Center, discusses FIFA’s World Cup’s premiere halftime show and its choice of global roster of artists. Subscription required to
Where Musical Traditions Meet: Inside UCLA Ethnomusicology’s Living Laboratory of Performance and Scholarship
When Taiwanese graduate student Roy Huang arrived to study in UCLA’s Department of Ethnomusicology in 2025, he expected to deepen his research into the traditional music of Vietnam, Taiwan and