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
The Mission Sensorium: Church Bells, Spanish Colonization, and California Indians, 1769–Present This talk examines sound in the Spanish Franciscan missions of California. The cast, suspended metal bell, or church bell, was a crucial tool of the mission system in Alta California (1769–1846). Adapted from the Western European tradition, church bells with “sound and voice” generated
Schoenberg in Hollywood is a high-spirited, affectionate homage to one of the most influential artistic figures of the 20th century.
Schoenberg in Hollywood is a high-spirited, affectionate homage to one of the most influential artistic figures of the 20th century.
Schoenberg in Hollywood is a high-spirited, affectionate homage to one of the most influential artistic figures of the 20th century.
