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 and the Gramian-Emrani Center for Iranian Music as we welcome Sadegh Nojouki, one of the most prominent and influential composers in Iranian popular music. The conversation will be in Persian, moderated by Dr. Shahab Paranj. Sadegh Nojouki is a renowned Iranian composer, arranger, and pianist, best known
UCLA’s 138th Faculty Lecture Join us on Friday, April 11, 2025 for a lecture with Distinguished Professor Raymond Knapp on the topic of “How Music(ology) Saves Lives,” exploring how music and musicology work together to reanimate the past. He will include among his examples his recent work on online performances that document the vibrancy
Michael A. Figueroa will share his ethnographic research among Arab American musicians who turn to diverse experimental practices as pathways toward futurity, imagining new social worlds and configurations of community.
Lowell Milken Lecture in Jewish Music by Professor Joy H. Calico May 15th, 2025, 4:00 PM – The UCLA Faculty Club There is a long history of representing Jewishness on the operatic stage. Calico’s talk situates Tod Machover’s Schoenberg in Hollywood (2018) in that tradition, and considers the ways in which music, libretto, and staging conventions index
CONVERSATIONS Schoenberg in Hollywood: The Making of a Modern Opera SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2025 1:30 PM The Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90024 Celebrating Arnold Schoenberg’s 150th birthday, join composer Tod Machover as he discusses his innovative new opera Schoenberg in Hollywood with conductor Neal Stulberg, director Karole Armitage, and Arnold Schoenberg’s
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
“Driven into Paradise”: Schoenberg in Los Angeles This online event panel gathers venerated historians, musicologists and composers to explore Schoenberg’s complex relationship with Los Angeles. An online discussion of the history and experience of Schoenberg in Los Angeles with scholars and artists. The panel will include historian Kenneth Marcus (University of La Verne), musicologists
The co-organizers, UCLA HASOM Armenian Music Program and Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History, present The Brass Band of the King: Armenians in Ethiopia, a lecture by Dr. Boris Adjemian. This is a part of an event series co-sponsored by the Promise Armenian Institute. To attend this lecture virtually on March 6 at
Considering theoretical frameworks of historical and colonial trauma, the talk explores how Naga artists have processed experiences of political conflict and military violence in their homelands through their music.
