Events for April 2026 – Page 129 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Family Meal – Soundtrack to Creativity: Refiguring American Music Authors

Listen to the music and insights that have Listen to the music and insights that have carried Shana Redmond, Maureen Mahon, Anthony Reed and Eric Weisbard’s writing their books—Everything Man, Black Diamond Queens, Soundworks, and Songbooks—and reflect on the music that has done the same for you. This event features authors from the Duke University Press’s Refiguring American Music book series, co-edited by Ronald Radano, Josh Kun, and Nina Eidsheim. carried Shana Redmond, Maureen Mahon, Anthony Reed and Eric Weisbard’s writing their books—Everything Man, Black Diamond Queens, Soundworks, and Songbooks—and reflect on the music that has done the same for you.

Alumni Networking Night

All alumni of the Herb Alpert School of Music are invited to join this virtual networking night. This is an opportunity to meet and connect with your fellow Bruins. The event will begin with a group session followed by breakout sessions on diverse topics including music industry, navigating academia, and performance.

Music Performance Studies Today: “21st-Century Pianism: Retrospection, New Directions, and Interpretative Communities” Part 2: Lecture Presentations & Discussion

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?