Yiddish & Klezmer Music Today – Part 2
Each year, thousands of people participate as learners and audience members in Yiddish and klezmer music intensive learning programs. Learn about some of the leading ones here.
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Yiddish and Klezmer Music Today
Each year, thousands of people participate as learners and audience members in Yiddish and klezmer music programs. Many of them are young people seeking connection to their roots. The ‘klezmer revival’ that began in the 1980’s is thriving today.
Music of China Concert
The UCLA Chinese Music Ensemble, directed by Chi Li, performs its annual Fall concert featuring traditional and contemporary Chinese music.
Latinx Storytellers, Presented by Michael Hernandez
Michael Hernandez has been described as one of the finest soprano saxophone artists of the present generation.
The Meeting Room as Fieldwork Site: A Short Introduction to Survival Skills for Ethnomusicologists
Huib Schippers is the Regents’ Professor at UCLA for the Fall quarter, and here to share everything he’s learned in a 40-year career including initiating, supporting, and running music initiatives and institutions in The Netherlands, Australia, Nepal, The Gambia, and the US, where he helped revitalize the iconic record label Smithsonian Folkways (2016-2020).
17th Annual UCLA Philharmonia All-Star Concert
Join us for the 18th Annual All-Star Concert.
Hear + Việt + Film, a Symposium on Music in Trans-Vietnamese Film, Day Two
Hear + Việt + Film: a Symposium on Trans-Vietnamese Music in Film is a two-day event bringing together scholars, filmmakers, and composers for a critical reassessment of music in Vietnamese film. Featuring lecture panels, film screenings, and Q&A sessions, the event seeks to bridge transnational as well as transdisciplinary perspectives on this global medium. It
UCLA Jazz Combos with Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance Ensemble
Concert featuring UCLA Jazz Combos, directed by Terence Blanchard, Clayton Cameron, Charley Harrison, Roberto Miranda, and Michele Weir. With special guests, the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance Ensemble at UCLA.
UCLA Big Band Concert
The World Jazz and Intercultural Improvisation Ensemble and the Charles Mingus Ensemble will be performing well-known jazz standards as well as compositions by the faculty directors and the students.
Sound Futures: Why Some Music Practices Thrive, Many Struggle, and Others Disappear
Regents’ Professor Huib Schippers crosses disciplines in a search for the mysteries of music vitality and sustainability, introducing the concept of cultural ecosystems to efficiently support musicians and communities to sustain the music they treasure on their own terms.