Events for April 2026 – Page 52 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Paula C. Harper Explores Sonic Memes, Contagious Tunes, and Viral Musicking

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

Anna Gatdula Discusses Toshio Hosokawa’s “Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima”

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

Book Talk: For Women and Girls Only

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

Resonate – Featuring Bent Frequency

The UCLA Music Library, UCLA Davise Fund for Contemporary Music, and Bent Frequency Duo Project (Jan Berry Baker, saxophone and Stuart Gerber, percussion) present Resonate: A Call for Scores Winning Concert.   Yi-Ting Lu, a Chicago -based composer from Taiwan, was selected as the winner of this call for scores for her work An Unopened

EmpowHer Sound

Music Production for Women (MPW) and DistroKid have announced the EmpowHer Sound US Tour of free beginner music production masterclasses across New York, LA, Nashville, and Santa Cruz in July. Led by MPW’s award-winning founder Xylo Aria, these workshops covering Beatmaking, Audio Effects, and Synthesis, aim to empower female and non-gender conforming musicians. Tickets to