Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music as we welcome guest pianist Jose Raul Lopez for an evening of music by 19th century Jewish composers. Entitled “Stars of David”, the evening will feature works by Felix Mendelssohn, Ferdinand Hiller, Fanny Hensel, Benjamin Godard, Charles Valentin Alkan, Julius Schulhoff, and Charles Valentin Alkan. This event
Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music for a vibrant night of music featuring Professor Vladimir Chernov and guest harpist Alexander Boldachev. About Alexander Boldachev: Alexander Boldachev is a virtuoso-harpist, composer, exclusive artist of Italian harp house Salvi Harps, initiator of the World Harp Day, founder of the Zurich Harp Festival, co-founder of
This event has been postponed from Tuesday 11/5/24 to Friday 11/15/24 Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and the Gramian-Emrani Center for Iranian Music as we welcome Maestro Kaykhosrou Pournazeri for an afternoon in intimate Lani Hall. This event will be conducted in Persian.
In July 2024, Brazil recognized funk carioca as a cultural symbol, despite its contested history. Once silenced by authorities, this music reclaims favelas’ identity, exposing Brazil’s contradictions in race and democracy.
The Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience presents the Milken Center Chamber Music Series, concerts of uplifting and distinctive chamber music curated by Neal Stulberg, Artistic Director. Paul Schoenfield (1947-2024) was a unique and brilliant musician of decidedly American Jewish Experience. A virtuoso concert pianist and hugely gifted composer who wrote for first-class performers
Dr. James Lent leads his class of pianists in a varied concert featuring works for piano duet, piano duo, piano quartet, violin and piano, voice and piano, piano concertos, and other unique combinations. This event is made possible by the David and Irmgard Dobrow Fund. Classical music was a passion of the Dobrows, who established
About the Early Sounds of Jewish Music Symposium Early Sounds of Jewish Music is a rare journey into the Jewish soundscape of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. Featuring international scholars, our program will be in two parts: An interactive symposium with leading scholars and practitioners of Jewish Early Music, and a collaborative concert with
Four members of L.A.’s very own Jewish roots ensemble, Mostly Kosher, present a workshop exploring their creative process of integrating klezmer and Yiddish music with various other musical styles.
As more sophisticated playback methods and Internet-based multimedia platforms became widespread in the last decade, so a new batch of historical Chinese recordings became digitised and available online. Highly acclaimed for their ethnographic recordings from early 20th century China, these collections incited a sensation and fierce debate among scholars, performing artists, and cultural entrepreneurs in
In this Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy Colloquium presentation, ethnomusicologist and archivist Xiaoshi Wei will outline his decade-long on-site archival work on private sound collections in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The content of these collections, mainly retrieved from private cassettes, contains the music of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and Uzbeks, primarily in the widely known musical frameworks of
