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

Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra’s Spring Concert

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!

FOR THE LOVE OF OPERA: CELEBRATING RBG’S 88TH BIRTHDAY

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.

Experiencing Jewish Music in New York: A Virtual Tour

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.

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.