The UCLA Robert U. Nelson Lecture Series, hosted by the Center for Musical Humanities, presents Sarah Taylor Ellis with a talk entitled “The Joy Factor: Embracing Musical Moments on German Stages” Livestream cancelled; a recording will be made available upon request. “Frozen meets Kurt Weill” (nachtkritik). Whether collaborating on an original musical for an inclusive
Join UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Professor James Miller for an evening of music featuring the trombone with an array of guest artists.
Photo: Sor Juana the Younger and the Elder, Digital Photograph by Alma López @ 2019 (Models: Alicia Gaspar de Alba as the Elder, and Alicia Billalobos, UCLA Chicana/o Studies alumna, as the Younger) A Symposium In Celebration of Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s 2026 Retirement and Lifelong Research on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Hosted
Join us for an evening of jazz saxophone as UCLA faculty and advanced students perform music from Julius Hemphill’s The Sextet Collection, under the direction of Alex Harding. Hemphill emerged in the 1980s as one of the premiere jazz composers of his era, offering an aesthetic model that contrasted with Wynton Marsalis’s neo-hard bob movement.
The history of the so-called “New Jewish School” in music began in 1908 in St. Petersburg with the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music by students from the St. Petersburg Conservatory. The end of this movement came with the invasion of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938, and the dissolution of the Vienna
On January 21, the Iranshahr Orchestra, conducted by Stefan Lano and Shahab Paranj, will celebrate the 70th birthday of American composer Richard Danielpour. The program features violinist Aida Kavafian performing Fiat Lux, Danielpour’s violin concerto, as well as his Symphony for Strings. The concert also includes two works that reflect the composer’s Persian heritage: Songs
Part II of “Reviving Yiddish Stage and Screen” is a Schoenberg Hall screening of the uproarious 1937 Yiddish-language musical comedy, “Freylekhe Kabtsonim” (Jolly Paupers).
Please join us for this spectacular two-part program in Schoenberg Hall inaugurating the Milken Center’s three-day conference, “Sonic Representations of Jewishness, On Screen and Off.” We begin at 4 PM with the U.S. premiere of Bas-Sheve (1924), a one-act Yiddish-language opera/melodrama by composer Henech Kon and librettist Moishe Broderzon. Recently rediscovered, completed and orchestrated by distinguished Yiddish experts Diana Matut,
Premiered in London in 1739, Israel in Egypt tells the story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt and features monumental choral writing, including vivid musical depictions of the ten plagues.
