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.
Stefano Greco presents a lecture on rhetoric figures and other characteristics of Bach’s language, including short samples on the Art of Fugue and the Musical Offering.
Stefano Greco, one of the world’s most renowned specialists in Bach’s music, begins the first of a four-event residency by performing original compositions from a select group of our Composition students and the members of our esteemed Composition faculty.
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.
Join the UCLA Saxophone Studio for a masterclass with Kenneth Radnofsky.
Join us to experience new works by the innovative Graduate composers of our Composition Area.
