UCLA Camarades (“The Music of Friends”) is the title given to the chamber music program that is guided and driven by the String Department. It offers superior coaching to all ensembles incorporating strings, from trios to octets, with a special consideration to the rich string quartet literature. These endeavors of study and instruction are crowned
Founded in 2002, UCLA Symphony is UCLA’s campus-wide orchestra, drawing its membership from throughout the university community and performing a full spectrum of symphonic repertoire. Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music in Schoenberg Hall for their second concert of the 2024-2025 academic year. This event is made possible by the David and Irmgard
Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music for an evening of chamber music highlighting members of the woodwind family. This event is made possible by the David and Irmgard Dobrow Fund. Classical music was a passion of the Dobrows, who established a generous endowment at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music to make
The UCLA Percussion Ensemble presents Mostly Marimba…and some other stuff. The concert will include Ancient Military Aires, arranged by Nexus, Arabesque No. 1 and Pagodes by Debussy, Kecak by Nishimura, A Flight of Virtuosity by Steinke, Escape Velocity by Dave Hall, Five on Five by Primatic and YYZ by Geddy Lee, the famous drummer from
Join us for an afternoon of music and memories to celebrate UCLA’s acquisition and digitization of Rev. Shuichi Thomas Kurai’s audiovisual holdings. Rev. Tom was a well-known taiko teacher and performer in the greater Los Angeles area as well as a Soto Zen priest. Taiko is a tradition of Japanese drumming that is immensely popular
Join Dr. Jan Berry Baker and her students as they present an evening of works showcasing the saxophone. This event is made possible by the David and Irmgard Dobrow Fund. Classical music was a passion of the Dobrows, who established a generous endowment at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music to make programs like
Musicology Distinguished Lecture Series Reluctant public intellectual Nate Sloan will share reflections and insights gleaned from ten years of producing Switched on Pop, a podcast exploring the making and meaning of popular music. Prepare to be regaled with true tales of decoding the Billboard charts, searching for redemption from the Jonas Brothers, and accidentally canceling
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR APRIL 15. IT WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 21. Musicology Distinguished Lecture Series With the rise of TikTok, YouTube, and Spotify, memes and other internet phenomena are becoming more and more audible in our daily lives. In this talk, musicologist Paula Harper briefly historicizes and contextualizes the contagious concept
Musicology Distinguished Lecture Series This program is made possible through generous funding from our co-sponsor UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies. Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa’s oratorio Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima (1989, 2001) memorializes the traumatic destruction of Hiroshima, Hosokawa’s birthplace, by a nuclear bomb in 1945. In this lecture, musicologist Anna Gatdula examines Voiceless Voice
For Women and Girls Only: Reshaping Jewish Orthodox Through the Arts in the Digital Age Book Talk with Author Jessica Roda For Women and Girls Only is a groundbreaking novel on the reversal of mainstream portrayals of ultra-Orthodox religious women, and of those who have left the community yet maintain ties to it. It is
