Featuring performances by UCLA’s own Vladimir Chernov (baritone) with other faculty, students and alumni from the UCLA vocal department, this event honors the life and works of Hermann Leopoldi, one of the pre-eminent composers of early jazz-influenced Viennese Cabaret music.
Fay Victor, an improvising vocalist, composer, lyricist and educator, will give a lecture about her experiences with communicating messages and discuss how budding artistic souls can do the same.
The original ‘Funny of Die’, Max and Willy’s Last Laugh is the unbelievable true story of German comedian Max Ehrlich and his best friend, composer Willy Rosen, two of the biggest Cabaret stars of 1930’s Germany who created “the greatest cabaret in Europe,” while incarcerated in Holland’s Westerbork Transit Camp.
The original ‘Funny of Die’, Max and Willy’s Last Laugh is the unbelievable true story of German comedian Max Ehrlich and his best friend, composer Willy Rosen, two of the biggest Cabaret stars of 1930’s Germany who created “the greatest cabaret in Europe,” while incarcerated in Holland’s Westerbork Transit Camp.
Fay Victor, an improvising vocalist, composer, lyricist, and educator, will lead a masterclass/open rehearsal with UCLA students who will perform in concert with her on November 16, 2019.
Record Collector Ian Nagoski will address immigrant musical performers from present-day Turkey and Syria who recorded in the U.S. during the 1910s-1940s and present original research on the artists while considering them in the context of both their native and adopted homes.
Sherrie Tucker is a member of multiple adaptive use musical instrument organizations and is the author of several books, including “Dance Floor Democracy: the Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen” (Duke, 2014).
Wadada Leo Smith lectures on his musical philosophy exemplified in his Ankhrasmation Symbolic Language, focusing on the Four Symphonies.
In this participatory workshop, internationally acclaimed composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith introduces performers into the art of the Ankhrasmation symbolic language, including the Global Jazz Studies Program and the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance at UCLA.
To share the complexity and depth of Smith’s work and philosophy, this open rehearsal with the RedKoral Quartet features the composer’s String Quartet No. 11, which has yet to be played in public.
