Events for April 2026 – Page 11 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Reviving Yiddish Stage and Screen, Part I: Bas-Sheve (1924)

Please join us for this spectacular two-part program in Schoenberg Hall inaugurating the Milken Center’s three-day conference, “Sonic Representations of Jewishness, On Screen and Off.” We begin at 4 PM with the U.S. premiere of Bas-Sheve (1924), a one-act Yiddish-language opera/melodrama by composer Henech Kon and librettist Moishe Broderzon. Recently rediscovered, completed and orchestrated by distinguished Yiddish experts Diana Matut,

Music Alive in the Archive: Celebrating the Music and Legacy of Hua Wenyi

Join us for an evening celebrating the legacy, acquisition, and digitization of the Hua Wenyi Collection at the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. Hua Wenyi (1941–2022) was one of the most influential Kunqu opera performers of her generation. Born and trained in Shanghai, she rose to prominence as a leading dan (refined female-role) performer and later served

uclaFLUX Spring Concert

Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music for the final uclaFLUX concert of the 2024-2025 academic year. uclaFLUX is devoted to the performance of chamber music from the 20th and 21st centuries. We explore and embrace new performance approaches and techniques associated with the dynamic, ever-evolving languages of contemporary music. In preparing to perform