In this one-person musical show, Cantor Mendelson, a master storyteller, paints a picture of 1950’s Borough Park, Brooklyn. It was a time when Jews would flock to the synagogue to hear the golden voices of cantors as if it were a concert hall.
As a launch to UClezLA, a free screening of the Emmy award-winning documentary “In the Fiddler’s House” is offered. In this film, Itzhak Perlman gets personal and shares his musical journey of rediscovery of Jewish folk music – called ‘Klezmer’. Perlman’s joy in performing with the world’s finest klezmer musicians is palpable, and the music is infectious.
Tamir Hendelman’s jazz piano studio performs selections by Shorter, Jobim, Mingus, Coltrane, Ravel, Porter, Ellington, Brown and more.
Ethnomusicology/Musicology Graduate Students present papers on topics ranging from migration to protest songs to ethnic minority rock music.
Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara is a native Angelino Chicano musician, singer and songwriter, a record producer of Chicano rock and roll and rock en español compilations, and a performance artist, poet, short story writer, historian, journalist, and activist. His newly published book Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer (University of California Press, 2018) is a moving memoir of his life and a compelling counter-history of the city of Los Angeles.
Esteemed alumni of both UCLA and AJRCA will share songs which give voice to the women of the Bible, telling classic stories through new lenses.
American solo cellist, chamber musician, conductor, composer and pedagogue Emilio Colón will host a masterclass with UCLA cello students. The distinguished guest artist will share his wisdom about string technique and shed new light on musical interpretation while unlocking issues that students may struggle with.
Opera UCLA is delighted to present the third biennial Vocal Vision Awards, a competition that provides scholarships to three of the school’s top voice students.
The music of early Hollywood composers, including Arnold Schoenberg, Ernst Toch, Erich Korngold, Andre Previn, Kurt Weill, Eric Zeisl and others, will be featured in a concert performed by Ensemble for These Times, a music chamber group consisting of award-winning soprano, co-director and co-founder Nanette McGuinness, Van Cliburn competitor pianist Dale Tsang and cellist Anne Lerner-Wright.
The UCLA Punk Collective and Library Special Collections present a pre-party to celebrate the Ben is Dead 30th Anniversary Reunion Bash and Old School Zine Fest with Special Guest Speaker Darby Romeo, creator of LA-based zine Ben is Dead and The I Hate Brenda Newsletter. Featuring photos and other media from the UCLA Library Special Collections Punk Archive.
