Please join The Friends of Jazz at UCLA for a virtual concert honoring Herbie Hancock. Performances will feature GRAMMY-nominated vocalist, Freda Payne, American Jazz singer, Barbara Morrison, Global Jazz Vocal students, Arya Hora and Lauren Brewster, and many more.
The first concert in the new virtual event series, Musics from Around the World: Southern California Composers in Concert, spotlighting contemporary global music makers throughout the region, features composer, performer, and improviser Christopher Adler.
Celebrate Armenia’s rich musical heritage with exquisite performances of works spanning more than one thousand years.
What is music performance studies and why does it matter? This panel brings together scholars working diversely in music theory, musicology and ethnomusicology, theater, ethnic studies and critical gender studies to identify methodologies of the field and to foster cross-disciplinary conversation on the topic of music performance.
Randy Raine-Reusch discusses how his working collection of over 1000 world instruments, some of which made their way onto hit songs, is transitioning into a public museum collection and the challenges that poses for him, the museum, and the collection.
While the Klaus Wachsmann audio collection at Makerere University provides a colonial definition of “indigenous” music, it also provides in glimpse into the present and future redefinition of Uganda’s music.
The final event in the Hear / Now / Then / There lecture series features Jasmine Nyende, a Ugandan and African American fiber artist and educator, in a lively conversation about music and performance art.
Janet Topp Fargion, Head of Sound & Vision at the British Library, considers methods and best practices in contemporary audiovisual archiving that focus on collaboration and exchange and highlight a shift to the “post-custodial.”
Dr. Nicole Detling, Co-author of ‘Don’t Leave Your Mind Behind’, discusses enhancing musical performance through mental skills training, which she has used with several Olympic medalists and world champions.
This concert features performers from all departments at the School of Music, including the UCLA Percussion Ensemble, the Music of China Ensemble, Professor Inna Faliks, Irina Bazik, Kelsey Ma, Valerie Stern, and original works from Kian Ravaei, Robby Good and Shirunyu Li among many others.
