Join us for a night of new music composed by UCLA undergraduate composition students! Among one of the most competitive schools for composition in the country, Herb Alpert School of Music boasts performances of music written by ferociously talented and exceptionally gifted young composers. Please come support their endeavors as we kick off the 2025-26
Join Cantor Elizabeth Shammash and pianist David Sparr as they take us on a journey around the Jewish world in the form of lullabies and bedtime songs in Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino. The program includes well-known favorites such as “Rozhinkes mit Mandlen” and “Numi Numi” and takes us into new territory as well. Come to
Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music for and evening featuring the UCLA Philharmonia and UCLA Choral Studies as they combine forces to present this legendary work by one of the greatest composers of the Baroque era in historic Royce Hall.
New music written by or about Jews no longer abides by exoticisms, national paraphernalia, or the prestige of “art music.” Instead, growing disillusioned with (or disinterested in) ideological apparatuses and tropes of Otherness, composers navigate through signs associated with Judaism while introducing new ethnographies in the form of fieldwork recordings, simulations of their oral behavioral
Join Mostly Kosher for an evening of Klezmer and Yiddish Swing at the historic Cicada Club! Mostly Kosher welcomes special guests, Marco Palos of Phat Cat Swinger fame, and Yiddish dance leader Bruce Bierman to keep your hands clapping and feet tapping! Stay tuned for updates and special guest announcements. Space is limited, RSVP now
This talk will highlight the ways in which Langston Hughes and Ryan Coogler represent and exemplify salient elements of the Blues ethos, while doing so nearly a century apart in nonmusical mediums. Central in this regard are the comparatively high degrees of significance that Hughes and Coogler attribute to dancing in Blues Aesthetics. Additional focus
The Legacy of Jalil Shahnaz honors one of the most distinguished masters of the tar and a towering figure in Iranian contemporary music. Shahnaz was not only a guardian of Persian classical tradition but also a visionary who expanded its expressive boundaries with unmatched creativity. This series of lectures, performances, and discussions explores his music,
Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music as we welcome leading scholar Malcolm Miller for a lecture demonstration on his new book “Boundaries, Space and Register in Beethoven’s Piano Music”. Through his new text Miller, a leading scholar of Western classical music also known for his work on Jewish music, introduces a far-reaching new
Lecture by Prof. Jayson Beaster-Jones Global Arts Studies Program University of California, Merced Abstract: The soundtrack to the Bollywood film Dil Chahta Hai (2001) was arguably the first hit soundtrack in Bollywood created by a rock band. In this presentation, Prof. Jayson Beaster-Jones illustrates how the collaborative approach for this Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy soundtrack generated momentum for
This talk/recital marks the launch of Classical and Popular Music in Israel (Eastman Studies/URP), with an illustrated introduction by British musicologist Malcolm Miller, surveying the volume and offering a concise orientation to Israeli art and popular music—transcultural dialogues, canon and identity, and performance contexts. The recital features Iris Malkin (mezzo-soprano), Neal Stulberg (piano), and Malcolm
