Klezmer Workshop with Eléonore Biezunski
In this workshop, learn Yiddish songs and klezmer music from the international musician, Eléonore Biezunski, a Parisian singer/violinist now living in NYC.
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UCLA Chamber Singers and the UCLA Chorale Presents “Changing Perceptions”
GRAMMY Award-winning UCLA Chamber Singers and the UCLA Chorale present live vocal music in an ideal setting. In the stunning acoustic of St. Paul the Apostle Church, listeners will experience selections of unaccompanied modern works, probing texts, and an award-winning choral cycle entitled “Changing Perceptions” for voices and piano soloists.
Italian Opera for the Yiddish-Speaking Masses in Early 20th-Century America – Pt. 5
This lecture explores the implications of promoting Italian opera among a largely uneducated working-class population, the questions of assimilation and acculturation raised by these endeavors, the parallel English-language opera scene, and the complicated yet symbiotic relationship between the high and popular cultural spheres.
Italian Opera for the Yiddish-Speaking Masses in Early 20th-Century America – Pt. 4
This lecture reveals how the impresario and educator, Josiah Zuro, finds innovative ways of attracting Italians, Jews, and Americans to attend opera performances, uniting these groups through a common love of the genre.
Italian Opera for the Yiddish-Speaking Masses in Early 20th-Century America – Pt. 3
This lecture focuses on Mikhail Medvedieff’s foray into the New York Yiddish scene after a successful European career, examining his experimentation with different ways of appealing to Russian-Jewish audiences in both opera and Yiddish theater.
Italian Opera for the Yiddish-Speaking Masses in Early 20th-Century America – Pt. 2
This talk reveals the intriguing overlap between the elite and popular spheres of the opera world, highlighting Oscar Hammerstein’s savvy in making the typically snobby uptown opera scene accessible to those from the Lower East Side (and beyond).
UCLA Symphony Fall Quarter Concert
UCLA’s beloved all-campus orchestra performs a tasty, four-course musical meal of Mozart, Debussy, Dvorak, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Shulamit Ran.
Italian Opera for the Yiddish-Speaking Masses in Early 20th-Century America
This lecture delves into the interconnections between the Jewish and Italian opera spheres in the early 1900s, showing how Ivan Abramson capitalizes on the cultural overlap between the two immigrant groups as simultaneously outsiders and insiders in the world of opera to promote his popular price company.
LUNCH @ LANI: Pianist Andreas Apostolou
The first LUNCH @ LANI event of the season features a performance by pianist Andreas Foivos Apostolou. Andreas presents contemporary works highlighting elements of post-tonal, jazz and experimental music. His performance exposes the full range of the modern grand piano and unconventional techniques.
Inaugural Lowell Milken Lecture in Jewish Music
Michael Beckerman (NYU) will deliver the first annual Lowell Milken Lecture in Jewish music, entitled “Hugo Haas’ Big Secret–Hiding Pavel and Hiding the Holocaust.”