Masterclass with Kenneth Radnofsky
Join the UCLA Saxophone Studio for a masterclass with Kenneth Radnofsky.
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Winter ’21 Graduate Composers Concert
Join us to experience new works by the innovative Graduate composers of our Composition Area.
FLUX Contemporary Music Winter Concert
FLUX contemporary music ensemble shares video recordings of student performances prepared over our Winter quarter.
Indo-Persian Musical Confluences: From Tajikistan to Gujarat
Join us for the third event in the Indo-Persian Musical Confluence series, featuring a panel of eminent ethnomusicologists on Indo-Persian musical hybrids in Afghanistan.
Music Performance Studies Today: “Performing Capitalism and Neoliberalism”
Through historic and contemporary case studies, this panel explores how musical creativity and philanthropy have been called upon to invite upward mobility since the 19th century.
UCLA Faculty Recital Series: The Theoreticals – UCLA Music Theory Faculty
Join us to experience the wide gamut of musical voices comprising our Music Theory Faculty in a concert featuring Benjamin Phelps, Dante De Silva, David Lefkowitz, Dwayne Milburn, Hitomi Oba, and Noah Meites.
Undergraduate Composer’s Concert
The Herb Alpert School of Music Composition Area presents new works written by our inventive undergraduate music students.
‘Blues for the 1980s’: Funk Bands in Dayton, Ohio
This presentation explores the story of Zapp—a Dayton-based band who managed to prevail and thrive during the 1980s by embracing new sound technologies and participating in novel forms of social and artistic activism.
Non:wa, the Now of the Past, Present, and Future: Soundscapes of Native American Indian Contemporary Music
GRAMMY- and NAMA-nominated world musician/multi-disciplinary artist Dawn Avery will offer a concert and lecture on some of the processes of decolonizing performance, ethnographic research, music theory, and analysis in the context of Native American Indian contemporary music from her own downtempo, classical, and theatre music, as well as the music of other Indigenous contemporary classical composers.
4th Annual Robert U. Nelson Lecture Series: On Beethoven, Blackness, and Belonging: Debating Classical Music in the Black Atlantic
The UCLA Robert U. Nelson Lecture Series, hosted by the Center for Musical Humanities, presents a talk by Dr. Kira Thurman, “On Beethoven, Blackness, and Belonging: Debating Classical Music in the Black Atlantic.”