Masterclass with Erin Rogers: How to Run an Ensemble
Join the UCLA Saxophone Studio as we feature a guest artist masterclass on “How to Run an Ensemble” with saxophonist and composer, Erin Rogers.
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Test Kitchen: Decolonize Music Theory through Multi-Sensory Writing with Nina Eidsheim and Juliette Bellocq
What if we listened to music with our tongue, feet, or skin? In this interactive event, we will experiment with multi-sensory experience of music. Engaging with a writing model from PEER Lab graphic designer Julliet Bellocq and founder Nina Eidsheim can help us relate to our senses more fully, and deepen our relationship with music and ourselves.
Family Meal – Soundtrack to Creativity: Writing Process Mixtape
Listen to the music and insights that have carried Daphne Brooks, Farah J. Griffin & Gayle Wald through quarantine and through writing their just published and forthcoming books—Liner Notes for a Revolution, Read Until You Understand, and Democratic Rhythms— and reflect on the music that has done the same for you.
Family Meal – Soundtrack to Creativity: Refiguring American Music Authors
Listen to the music and insights that have Listen to the music and insights that have carried Shana Redmond, Maureen Mahon, Anthony Reed and Eric Weisbard’s writing their books—Everything Man, Black Diamond Queens, Soundworks, and Songbooks—and reflect on the music that has done the same for you. This event features authors from the Duke University Press’s Refiguring American Music book series, co-edited by Ronald Radano, Josh Kun, and Nina Eidsheim. carried Shana Redmond, Maureen Mahon, Anthony Reed and Eric Weisbard’s writing their books—Everything Man, Black Diamond Queens, Soundworks, and Songbooks—and reflect on the music that has done the same for you.
The Art of Unaccompanied Yiddish Singing with Ethel Raim and Sarah Myerson
Join the world renown Yiddish vocalists Ethel Raim and Cantor Sarah Myerson in this fascinating workshop that will explore the vast repertoire and unique style of unaccompanied Yiddish song. This series is about connecting to your own voice, and the rich history of Yiddish vocal music.
The Art of Unaccompanied Yiddish Singing with Ethel Raim and Sarah Myerson
Join the world renown Yiddish vocalists Ethel Raim and Cantor Sarah Myerson in this fascinating workshop that will explore the vast repertoire and unique style of unaccompanied Yiddish song. This series is about connecting to your own voice, and the rich history of Yiddish vocal music.
Alumni Networking Night
All alumni of the Herb Alpert School of Music are invited to join this virtual networking night. This is an opportunity to meet and connect with your fellow Bruins. The event will begin with a group session followed by breakout sessions on diverse topics including music industry, navigating academia, and performance.
Music Performance Studies Today: “21st-Century Pianism: Retrospection, New Directions, and Interpretative Communities” Part 2: Lecture Presentations & Discussion
Panelists explore: How a pianist might navigate various “interpretative communities” of the core repertory when dealing with varying politics of taste? How might a pianist listen to and theorize about past recordings to reinvigorate today’s performance approaches? What are ways a pianist might introduce compositional changes to existing works to reboot the core performing repertory?
Music Performance Studies Today: “The Ephemerality of Musical Hearing”
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?
Klezmer Workshop featuring Dan Blacksberg and Deborah Strauss
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.