The Rafael Petiton Guzmán Project examines and revives the music of a little-known but brilliant Dominican musician who was active in New York City in the mid-twentieth century.
The UCLA Chinese Music Ensemble, directed by Chi Li, performs its annual Winter concert featuring traditional and contemporary music, including Chinese opera aria, zheng unison, qin unison, folk dance, and silk-and-bamboo music.
UCLA’s own world-renowned concert pianist Inna Faliks performs a WORLD PREMIERE of a new work by Ljova, as well as performing works by UCLA lecturers Peter Golub and Tamir Hendelman, and works by George Gershwin, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Arnold Schoenberg.
UCLA Musicology Department Faculty discuss their forthcoming research and intellectual trends in the discipline.
Join us for an afternoon of great music celebrating Barbara’s legacy with Barbara and her latest protégées. To honor this dedicated faculty member we are launching a Scholarship fund in her name to help support our talented vocal students.
Dedicating this Valentine’s Day concert to the families of our Freshmen, and to all Vivaldi fans on campus, the String Department presents its annual Vivaldi Extravaganza, performing the celebrated Seasons, with surprise additions!
During WWI, The Royal Prussian Phonographic Commission recorded the voices of detainees from various backgrounds captive in Prussian camps. Some of these prisoners of war were Armenian soldiers fighting in the Russian army. By examining the sound recordings and printed documents kept in the archives, Melissa Bilal will critically discuss the legacy of the Armenian repertoire produced in internment camps.
Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, Mary Caldwell, explores the phenomenon of songs lacking notation yet made musical by means of the process of contrafacture; where new lyrics are fashioned after the poetic structure of a preexistent song, thereby allowing his work to be sung to that earlier melody.
As a lead up to the evening concert presentation “‘And You Know Who I Am’: Paul Robeson in Concert”, this afternoon “author meets critics” session is a discussion of Dr. Shana L. Redmond’s newly released second monograph, Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson (Duke UP, 2020).
The culminating performance of the UCLA American Jewish Music Festival highlights works by some of Los Angeles’ most famous and influential Jewish composers, including Schoenberg, Korngold and Zeisl. It ends with Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 1.
