The UCLA concert bands present their final concert of the 2024–25 academic year, opening with the UCLA Symphonic Band, an ensemble comprising students from across the university conducted by UCLA alumnus Dwayne Milburn.
Los Angeles is home to more ethnic Koreans than any other city outside Korea, and this week our friends at the LA Phil present a Seoul Festival—four chamber and symphony concerts and three different programs featuring Korean and Korean American composers, conductors, and soloists. The UCLA Wind Ensemble offers a program inspired by the Seoul Festival, with Korean and Korean American works for concert band, including the West Coast premiere of Kang Han-moi's Borrowed Scenery: Dadohae, a repeat presentation of Minoo Dixon's the Songs of Shim-Cheong (which pairs Korean samulnori percussion with the wind band), and UCLA graduate Janet Song Kim's Rhapsody on Doraji Taryeong.
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.