Given the ephemerality of performance, what are key issues behind the transmission of musical remembrance? How can we narrow the divide between what Diana Taylor calls the “archive” of enduring materials, such as texts, documents, and buildings, and the “more ephemeral ‘repertoire’ of embodied practice/knowledge,” such as “spoken language, dance, sports, ritual” and, we add, music performance?
Grab your fiddle and pull out your trombone for this fun instrumental workshop for all playing levels. Join Dan Blacksberg and Deborah Strauss, two of the klezmer world’s top instrumentalists, as we break down tunes to their fundamental elements.
For the second part of this workshop, you’ll be joining the UCLA Klezmer Ensemble in addition to Blacksberg and Strauss. Grab your fiddle and pull out your trombone again for a continuation of this fun instrumental workshop series for all playing levels.
Our fifth panel in the Indo-Persian Confluence series explores Sufi music from Pakistan and India known as Qawwali.
Principal Clarinetist of The Philharmonique de Radio France and YouTube sensation Nicolas Baldeyrou will give us a firsthand glimpse into his brilliant technique and musicianship and share some insights into how he creates his extraordinary videos on YouTube.
Led by renowned jazz musician Arturo O’Farrill, musicians will gather virtually to play compositions by Miguel Blanco, Adam O’Farrill, Guillermo Klein, Jason Lindner, as well as music from HBO Max’s Fandango at the Wall. Special guests will include DJ Logic, spoken word artist Christopher ‘Chilo’ Cajigas, pianist and composer Andrew Andron, and others. Put on your dancing shoes or, better yet, dance barefoot!
To mark the 88th birthday of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG), join us in celebrating with performances of some of her favorite opera arias, presented by the National Museum of American Jewish History, Opera Philadelphia, and the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
Join the faculty of our Composition area for a live, virtual round-table discussion with Stefano Greco. Aficionados and students of Bach’s music will also have an opportunity to ask questions.
Departing from a Lubavitcher niggun, this talk by Professor Tina Frühauf walks you to four corners of New York City and the Jewish musical cultures—past and present—of distinct neighborhoods, from Lincoln Center and Broadway to Forest Hills in Queens, from Harlem in the north down to the Lower Eastside in the south of Manhattan.
Stefano Greco finishes his residency with a performance of Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuga (The Art of Fugue) BWV 1080. This event will be presented at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia’s historic Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome at the Teatro Studio.
