Events for April 2026 – Page 131 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Music Performance Studies Today: “Anti-Blackness in Western Classical Music”

This panel moves with the current momentum of Black Lives Matter demonstrations and recent conversations considering whiteness in music theory to consider aspects of the panel extend to identifying issues and frames in classical performance, such as biased listening, pedagogy, minuscule representation of concert artists, long-term outcomes of black classical musicians, treatment, and ethics.