Events for April 2026 – Page 125 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Music Performance Studies Today: “21st-Century Pianism…” Part 1: Piano Performances & Context

Panelists explore: How a pianist might navigate various “interpretative communities” of the core repertory when dealing with varying politics of taste? How might a pianist listen to and theorize about past recordings to reinvigorate today’s performance approaches? What are ways a pianist might introduce compositional changes to existing works to reboot the core performing repertory?

Jewish Prayer in Many Languages: From Sephardic Seattle to Syrian Brooklyn

This 4-part series focuses on the varied tradition of liturgy in the languages of the Middle East, North Africa, former Ottoman Lands, and beyond, as they are currently practiced in the United States. Part 1 of the series focuses on the holiday of Shavuot, and is called “”Ketubba de la Ley: Sephardic Vernacular Liturgy for Shabuot from former Ottoman Lands and Beyond”, featuring Asher Shasho Levy.