Distinguished faculty and alumni soloists join UCLA Philharmonia at Royce Hall in a concert of music by composers featured in the Milken Archive of Jewish Music: The American Experience. The concert is part of the worldwide Schoenberg 150 celebrations.
Schoenberg’s Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 was a pivotal work in the composer’s development, heralding a revolutionary approach to harmony and orchestral color. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Shulamit Ran’s “Voices: For a Flutist with Orchestra” (2001) explores Middle Eastern modes, structures and textures in a lively and evocative work for soloist (playing flute, piccolo and alto flute) and orchestra.
Eric Zeisl’s Mondbilder (Moon Portraits): Four Songs on texts by Christian Morgenstern for baritone and orchestra receives its first performance since its 1936 premiere in Vienna. And the great Paul Schoenfield’s riotous “Four Parables for Piano and Orchestra” concludes the celebration with a virtuosic, high-spirited bang!
This event is made possible by the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
This event is made possible by the David and Irmgard Dobrow Fund. Classical music was a passion of the Dobrows, who established a generous endowment at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music to make programs like this possible. We are proud to celebrate this program as part of the 2024 - 25 Dobrow Series.
This event is supported by the Leo M. Klein and Elaine Krown Klein Chair in Music Performance Studies.