Michael A. Figueroa will share his ethnographic research among Arab American musicians who turn to diverse experimental practices as pathways toward futurity, imagining new social worlds and configurations of community.
Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music as we welcome Roberto Prosseda and Alessandra Ammara for an evening featuring the music of Italian-Jewish composers Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco, Luca Lombardi, Guido Alberto Fano. This event is made possible by the Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music at The UCLA
A Circum-North Atlantic Voyage in 1810-1811 Embark on a journey with the UCLA Early Music Ensemble, discovering the musics appropriate to shipboard life, and to each port of call. Musical selections include contradanzas, Irish dances, Mexican and Cuban sones de la tierra, Methodist hymns, Canarian sirinoques, Senegalese praise songs, dance music from Suriname… and, of
UCLA Symphony concludes its 2024-25 season with a concert showcasing the virtuosity of this remarkable, campus-wide ensemble and conducted by our two graduate orchestral conducting majors, Samuel Chung and Gan Xiong. The Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony is a glittery orchestra showpiece which will feature the Schoenberg Hall organ in the hands of master’s student Emma Yim
Intangible blends global traditions and experimental music, featuring Korean reed master gamin alongside saxophonist Robert Reigle, bassist Jeff Schwartz, and percussionist Tim Feeney, creating immersive, boundary-pushing soundscapes.
The Fifth Annual Chevalier Festival celebrates Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, an eighteenth-century French violinist and composer from Guadalupe. The son of a French plantation owner and enslaved Senegalese woman, Bologne was sent to study music in Paris at the age of seven. He was contemporary with Mozart and he became famous for his compositions. Join
INTERWOVEN is an intercultural ensemble blending traditional Asian and Western classical music, fostering collaboration and cultural integration.
Lowell Milken Lecture in Jewish Music by Professor Joy H. Calico May 15th, 2025, 4:00 PM – The UCLA Faculty Club There is a long history of representing Jewishness on the operatic stage. Calico’s talk situates Tod Machover’s Schoenberg in Hollywood (2018) in that tradition, and considers the ways in which music, libretto, and staging conventions index
CONVERSATIONS Schoenberg in Hollywood: The Making of a Modern Opera SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2025 1:30 PM The Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90024 Celebrating Arnold Schoenberg’s 150th birthday, join composer Tod Machover as he discusses his innovative new opera Schoenberg in Hollywood with conductor Neal Stulberg, director Karole Armitage, and Arnold Schoenberg’s
A Conversation with Doris Berger, Hans Vaget, and Alex Ross, moderated by Lily E. Hirsch, with music performance by UCLA Professor of Piano, Inna Faliks. To honor Thomas Mann’s 150th birthday anniversary and to celebrate the West Coast premiere of Tod Machover’s opera, Schoenberg in Hollywood (which explores the hypothetical scenario of Schoenberg composing for Hollywood), this
