Join a discussion of the past, present, and future of live music, music education, the music industry, and the creative economy in West LA. Share ideas with artists, organizers, taste makers, educators, business people, fans, and others who help music thrive in our neighborhoods.
The UCLA Percussion Ensemble will present a concert of pieces composed by Pulitzer Prize nominees, winners, and other honorees including William Bolcom, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Morton Gould, Stephen Hartke, Jennifer Higdon, and Christopher Rouse.
The Marine Band is America’s oldest continuously active professional musical organization. Founded in 1798, the band has performed for every U.S. President since John Adams. Known as “The President’s Own” since the days of Thomas Jefferson, the Marine Band’s mission is to provide music for the President of the United States and the Commandant of the Marine Corps.
A two-day symposium and dramatic prequel to the world premiere of JUANA, the opera based on the novel “Sor Juana’s Second Dream,” by UCLA Professor Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and presented by Opera UCLA.
UCLA choirs present music representing all aspects of the holiday season. From grand arrangements of carols for over 150 singers to beautiful miniatures from the French tradition. The program features music from the Armenian, Jewish, Christian and Secular traditions accompanied by organ, violin and piano.
Opera UCLA presents the new opera “Juana,” based on the novel “Sor Juana’s Second Dream,” by UCLA Professor Alicia Gaspar de Alba, which tells the story of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, a 17th-century feminist genius whose life was marked by repeated conflict with men of the Inquisition.
Opera UCLA presents the new opera “Juana,” based on the novel “Sor Juana’s Second Dream,” by UCLA Professor Alicia Gaspar de Alba, which tells the story of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, a 17th-century feminist genius whose life was marked by repeated conflict with men of the Inquisition.
UCLA Philharmonia’s season-opening concert offers a fantastic, fiery evening of works including Stravinsky’s “Fireworks,” Opus 3, the monumental Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz, and Brahms Double Concerto in A minor, Opus 102, with faculty soloists Varty Manouelian (violin) and Antonio Lysy (cello).
The UCLA Wind Ensemble is the premier wind band at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The inaugural season of Shir Chadash (New Song), a program dedicated to promoting and growing new Jewish music, finishes off with its second and final concert exploring the idea of musical dualities that sometimes clash and other times compliment one another. Weaving together various Jewish sonic elements with concert music and contemporary styles, the program will
