Events for April 2026 – Page 81 – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

The Selma Moidel Smith Recital Featuring Phyllis Pan

The Selma Moidel Smith Recital series celebrates and honors former UCLA music student Selma Moidel Smith. This year’s recital features Phyllis Pan, an exceptional doctoral student in the School of Music. Pan will perform original compositions by Selma Moidel Smith, other works, and a new piano trio by UCLA graduate composition student Morgan Kelly Moss.

Panel on Recovering Los Angeles’ Hidden Music Histories: Electronic Dance Music, Space & Place

The panel will address how they came to EDM, create safer spaces for their communities, negotiate the line between visibility and surveillance of queer and people of color, and how club spaces foster creative communities. The intention of the panel is to raise awareness about the aesthetic contributions of Los Angeles’s queer and communities of color to EDM, archiving marginalized communities, and the praxis of carving out space in hostile terrains.

Tributes, UCLA Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band Spring Concert

For their final concert of the academic year, the UCLA Symphonic Band and UCLA Wind Ensemble present a concert of all-American music, celebrating connections between composers and recognizing two leaders in the field as they retire from professorial positions. The UCLA Symphonic Band opens with Michael Markowski’s Shadow Rituals, winner of the first Frank Ticheli Composition Contest

MUSE, 4th Annual Conference

MUSE, an undergraduate research journal for music studies at UCLA, invites you to its fourth annual conference! The four authors published in our Spring 2023 general issue will present their work, followed by a Q&A. This event is free and open to the public. Panelists: Lauren Park (Swarthmore College), “White Heather Club: A Twentieth-Century Taste