Part II of “Reviving Yiddish Stage and Screen” is a Schoenberg Hall screening of the uproarious 1937 Yiddish-language musical comedy, “Freylekhe Kabtsonim” (Jolly Paupers).
Please join us for this spectacular two-part program in Schoenberg Hall inaugurating the Milken Center’s three-day conference, “Sonic Representations of Jewishness, On Screen and Off.” We begin at 4 PM with the U.S. premiere of Bas-Sheve (1924), a one-act Yiddish-language opera/melodrama by composer Henech Kon and librettist Moishe Broderzon. Recently rediscovered, completed and orchestrated by distinguished Yiddish experts Diana Matut,
Premiered in London in 1739, Israel in Egypt tells the story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt and features monumental choral writing, including vivid musical depictions of the ten plagues.
Join us for an evening celebrating the legacy, acquisition, and digitization of the Hua Wenyi Collection at the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. Hua Wenyi (1941–2022) was one of the most influential Kunqu opera performers of her generation. Born and trained in Shanghai, she rose to prominence as a leading dan (refined female-role) performer and later served
Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music for the final Philharmonia concert of the 2025-2026 season.
Join us as undergraduate student pianists compete for top honors, each performing two classical selections for a panel of judges. Click here for the 2026 competition program.
Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music for the final uclaFLUX concert of the 2025-2026 academic year. uclaFLUX is devoted to the performance of chamber music from the 20th and 21st centuries. We explore and embrace new performance approaches and techniques associated with the dynamic, ever-evolving languages of contemporary music. In preparing to perform
The UCLA Symphonic Band, comprising talented students from across the university, performs works by UCLA alumnus and lecturer Dwayne S. Milburn, John Mackey, and Julius Fučík, closing the first half of the concert with a suite from Joe Hisaishi’s acclaimed score to the Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli classic animated film My Neighbor Totoro. The UCLA
