Join the UCLA Percussion Ensemble for performances of music by Jose Ardevol, Javier Diaz (Cuba); Javier Alvarez, Cesar Gonzalez, Mario Lavista, Carlos Chavez (Mexico); Tito Puente (Puerto Rico).
Decoda, the affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall, is a New York based collective of virtuoso chamber musicians equally passionate for performance and community engagement. As part of a residency at the Herb Alpert School of Music to work with chamber music students and participants of the Gluck program, they perform this chamber music program of works by Stravinsky, Rameau, Dvorak, and Valerie Coleman.
Join distinguished lecturer Amy Cimini, associate professor of music at UC San Diego in the Integrative Studies Area, as she delivers a talk titled “Maryanne Amacher’s Houses for Strange Life: Friendship, Citation and Some Returns to the Science Question.” Maryanne Amacher was a multidisciplinary artist whose practice and research inquiry into auditory experience raises complex
The graduate-level students of the UCLA Department of Music Composition Area showcase their latest works. Join us for a variety of creative, unique, and emotive pieces.
FREE SCREENING BILLY WILDER THEATER AT THE HAMMER MUSEUM Set in the aftermath of the 1975 fall of Saigon, Journey From the Fall weaves together stories of a family separated and struggling for freedom. Director Hàm Trần’s award-winning drama, inspired by true stories of refugees, artfully defies common narratives about the Vietnamese experience, examining the
This special event showcases work written by retired UCLA composition faculty member Mark Carlson. Performing Mark’s works will be soprano iRebecca Sjöwall, and pianist Victoria Kirsch. Finishing the program will be a piece by Marcus Sjöwalll.
Student ensembles perform diverse, new works written by up-and-coming UCLA undergraduate composition students.
This one-day symposium will center on pedagogical approaches to Asian American and Pacific Islander performance on stage and on screen. Keynote speaker Donatella Galella will offer an interactive lesson about understanding and countering Orientalist representation in David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori’s musical Soft Power. All events are in-person and will also be livestreamed on
Episode 5 features a performance by the Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist master of klezmer and bluegrass, Andy Statman, who is joined by Jim Whitney on bass and Larry Eagle on drums. Together the trio takes viewers on a spiritual musical journey of klezmer, bluegrass, jazz and more.
The writings of African American composer Olly Wilson (1937-2018) exercised enormous influence in proposing an African American musical aesthetic in contemporary classical music. Wilson portrays Afrodiasporic music-making as exhibiting “shared conceptual approaches,” which he eventually subsumes under his notion of the “heterogeneous sound ideal…a fundamental bias for heterogeneity of sound rather than similarity of color
