Events for August 2026 – Page 172 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

The Music of Emigres and Exiles in Hollywood

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.

Fowler Out Loud: Mariachi De Uclatlán

This year’s performance features some special repertoire for Día de los Muertos as well many well-loved mariachi standards. In addition, they will perform Mexican songs of resistance in recognition of the activism featured in the exhibition South of No North: Gato Negro Ediciones.

The City of Angels Welcomes Moscow’s Finest – RSO @ UCLA

The Russian String Orchestra performs professor David Lefkowitz’s “Zachor,” two works by professor Richard Danielpour, works by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky, which are a testament to RSO’s Russian lineage, and Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklarte Nacht, a tribute to the composer for whom UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall is named. Conducted by Misha Rachlevsky.

Book Talk on Dexter Gordon by Maxine Gordon

Conversation with Maxine Gordon, author of Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon (University of California Press, 2018).  This unique combination of biography and memoir examines the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923–1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz.

Herschel and the Hanukkah Goblins – Live with Music!

You’ll love the live musical production of this classic Hanukkah fairy tale even more than the original book. Bring the whole family to see Herschel outsmart the Goblins, with the story narrated by actor, Fred Savage. What kind of music will you hear? Klezmer, of course! This program will feature UCLA’s own students from the