Fay Victor: Experiments in Communicating Message
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.
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Max and Willy’s Last Laugh
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.
Max and Willy’s Last Laugh
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 Residency: Masterclass
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.
DATE CHANGE: Historic Recordings from the Ottoman Diaspora: Music & Migration
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.
Robert M. Stevenson Lecture with Sherrie Tucker: “Improvising Across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI)”
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: Lecture on the Ankhrasmation Symbolic Language
Wadada Leo Smith lectures on his musical philosophy exemplified in his Ankhrasmation Symbolic Language, focusing on the Four Symphonies.
Wadada Leo Smith: Playing Ankhrasmation
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.
Wadada Leo Smith: Open Rehearsal of String Quartet No. 11
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.
Cosmological Compositions: Wadada Leo Smith & Nina Eidsheim
UCLA musicologist Nina Eidsheim and composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith discuss his compositions and Ankhrasmation language as well as their collaborative recording and book project.