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
JEWISH EARLY MUSIC CONCERT WITH UCLA EARLY MUSIC ENSEMBLE Concert: 6:30pm-8:00pm Register for the concert here Our program will combine the scholarly presentation of information and ideas along with performance. Cantor Matthew Austerklein and Dr. Diana Matut will join the UCLA Musicology Department’s Early Music Ensemble. There are limited written sources of Jewish music prior
Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music as we welcome Roberto Prosseda and Alessandra Ammara for an evening featuring the music of Italian-Jewish composers Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco, Luca Lombardi, Guido Alberto Fano. This event is made possible by the Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music at The UCLA
A Circum-North Atlantic Voyage in 1810-1811 Embark on a journey with the UCLA Early Music Ensemble, discovering the musics appropriate to shipboard life, and to each port of call. Musical selections include contradanzas, Irish dances, Mexican and Cuban sones de la tierra, Methodist hymns, Canarian sirinoques, Senegalese praise songs, dance music from Suriname… and, of
UCLA Symphony concludes its 2024-25 season with a concert showcasing the virtuosity of this remarkable, campus-wide ensemble and conducted by our two graduate orchestral conducting majors, Samuel Chung and Gan Xiong. The Saint Saëns Organ Symphony is a glittery orchestra showpiece which will feature the Schoenberg Hall organ in the hands of master’s student Emma
The Fifth Annual Chevalier Festival celebrates Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, an eighteenth-century French violinist and composer from Guadalupe. The son of a French plantation owner and enslaved Senegalese woman, Bologne was sent to study music in Paris at the age of seven. He was contemporary with Mozart and he became famous for his compositions. Join
A Conversation with Doris Berger, Hans Vaget, and Alex Ross, moderated by Lily E. Hirsch, with music performance by UCLA Professor of Piano, Inna Faliks. To honor Thomas Mann’s 150th birthday anniversary and to celebrate the West Coast premiere of Tod Machover’s opera, Schoenberg in Hollywood (which explores the hypothetical scenario of Schoenberg composing for Hollywood), this
Experience the complete cycle of Arnold Schoenberg’s four string quartets in captivating performances by the acclaimed Webern Quartet at 4 p.m. & 7 p.m. Hailed by The New Yorker’s Alex Ross for revealing “the through line of Schoenberg’s personality, which is by turns impassioned, whimsical, savage, melancholy,” the Webern Quartet brings their fresh interpretation to
The UCLA Wind Ensemble opens its second concert of the winter quarter with Óscar Navarro’s celebratory Downey Overture, written originally for the Downey Symphony Orchestra here in the Los Angeles area. Two recent compositions by young American composers follow: Nicole Piunno’s beautiful With Love and Grace and Henry Dorn’s Harper’s West, named for Dorn’s daughter
