Guest Lecture: Boulez’s Livres as Bookends of his Musical Maturation Joseph Salem, PhD, University of Victoria “Pierre Boulez began Structures, Livre 1 (Book 1) in 1951. The work represents one of his first experiments in serialism, which would become a dominant feature of his compositional method. Roughly a decade later, he completed Structures, Book
Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music for the final uclaFLUX concert of the 2024-2025 academic year. This year’s program will include: John Psathas, Spike Steve Reich, Quartet Ge Gan-ru, Si, for clarinet, violin, and piano Pierre Boulez, Improvisation sur Mallarmé II Louis Andreissen, Workers Union uclaFLUX is devoted to the performance of chamber
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
The UCLA Percussion Ensemble is comprised of students performing from the ever-growing volume of percussion ensemble literature. The Percussion Ensemble presents one public performance each quarter, join us for their first performance of the 2024-2025 academic year. This event is made possible by the David and Irmgard Dobrow Fund. Classical music was a passion of
Celebrating Ravel’s 150th birthday, UCLA professor and head of piano Inna Faliks performs his iconic, fiendishly difficult masterwork Gaspard de la Nuit, written in response to the poetry of the symbolist poet Aloyisius Bertrand. This triptych of Ondine, Le Gibet and Scarbo will be preceded by a performance of Ravel’s sonata for violin and piano
Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music as we welcome the New Orford String Quartet for a masterclass focused on chamber music. About the New Orford String Quartet: Four musicians with equally stellar pedigrees formed the New Orford String Quartet with the goal of developing a new model for a touring string quartet.
The most ambitious concert yet by undergraduate and graduate composers of The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Featuring: Lunar Bow, Kaitlin Webster-Zuber Arctic (The Endangered Animal Project), SiHyun Uhm Symphony of the Sun, I; “Totality,” Austin Ali A Divine Presence, Yoni Fogelman The Sun in My Heart, III. The Body A Tree, Madeline Barrett
The UCLA Robert U. Nelson Lecture Series, hosted by the Center for Musical Humanities, presents A Conversation with Michael Abels. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Michael Abels’ latest original score is for the series STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE on Disney Plus, featuring the original song “The Power Of Two” which Abels co-wrote with Grammy-winners Victoria Monet and
This lecture explores the symbolic and emotional role of the violin in Holocaust cinema. Dr. Kathryn Agnes Huether offers deeper insights into the violin’s impact on the narrative and emotional landscape of Holocaust memory, examining its symbolic significance within the broader context of Holocaust representation in film. A reception in the Green Room will follow.
This half-day symposium at UCLA will explore the intersection of sound and hate, focusing on how auditory experiences can propagate, resist, and reflect social animosities. Through discussions and lectures, the event will present unique perspectives on various forms of hate from the lens of sound studies, drawing on diverse fields to examine a wide range
