Events for April 2026 – Page 119 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Kol Nidre: Audio-Visual Dramaturgies – Part 4

A 4-part Interdisciplinary Conference Series on the Relationships between Religion and the Arts, organized by Prof. Mark Kligman (UCLA) and Dr. Ruthie Abeliovich (The University of Haifa) Part 4: Kol Nidre’s Many Spaces: From the Synagogue to the Archive The Kol Nidre ritual event and its depictions in literature, music and film provide valuable examples

Kol Nidre: Audio-Visual Dramaturgies – Part 3

A 4-part Interdisciplinary Conference Series on the Relationships between Religion and the Arts, organized by Prof. Mark Kligman (UCLA) and Dr. Ruthie Abeliovich (The University of Haifa) Part 3: Religious Dramaturgies This session explores historical and present-day liminal dynamics of the Kol Nidre. The very nature of the Kol Nidre’s incongruencies and inner tensions will

Klezmer Workshop with Kurt Bjorling

Learn klezmer repertoire with the talented and versatile musician, Kurt Bjorling, who performs on basset-horn, bass clarinet, ‘tsimbl,’ saxophone, and accordion, is noted for a penetrating understanding of ‘klezmer’ music. He is the music director of the Chicago Klezmer Ensemble, founded in 1984.