Events for April 2026 – Page 34 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Exiled in Los Angeles: Thomas Mann and Arnold Schoenberg at 150

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

“Driven into Paradise”: Schoenberg in Los Angeles

“Driven into Paradise”: Schoenberg in Los Angeles   This online event panel gathers venerated historians, musicologists and composers to explore Schoenberg’s complex relationship with Los Angeles. An online discussion of the history and experience of Schoenberg in Los Angeles with scholars and artists.  The panel will include historian Kenneth Marcus (University of La Verne), musicologists

Webern Quartet Performs Schoenberg String Quartets

Experience the complete cycle of Arnold Schoenberg’s four string quartets in captivating performances by the acclaimed Webern Quartet at 4 p.m. & 7 p.m. Hailed by The New Yorker’s Alex Ross for revealing “the through line of Schoenberg’s personality, which is by turns impassioned, whimsical, savage, melancholy,” the Webern Quartet brings their fresh interpretation to