Fall Graduate Composers Concert
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.
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Film Screening and Q&A: Journey From the Fall
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
Songs of Our Time: A recital celebrating works of retired UCLA composition professor Mark Carlson
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.
Undergraduate Composers Concert
Student ensembles perform diverse, new works written by up-and-coming UCLA undergraduate composition students.
AAPI Performance and Pedagogy
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
Andy Statman Featured in Next Secret Chord Concert
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.
New Music and the Heterogeneous Sound Ideal: a Discussion with George E. Lewis
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
“Everything that is wrong with postwar America”: Robert Siodmak’s The Killers and the Music of Miklós Rózsa
An examination of the role music plays in the film noir genre, focusing on Miklós Rózsa’s score for Robert Siodmak’s The Killers (1946). Explored is how music strengthens the expressive potentials, semantic ambiguities, and tensional curves.
Bent Frequency Duo and Friends Perform New Music by George E. Lewis, emily koh, and Alvin Singleton
Professor Jan Berry Baker presents an evening of music featuring works by George E. Lewis, Alvin Singleton, and emily koh. Joining Jan is her duo, Bent Frequency, and an ensemble conducted by Anthony Parnther comprised of esteemed members of the UCLA faculty, students, and guest musicians.
Don Letts: REBEL DREAD film screening and Q&A
REBEL DREAD is the story of Don Letts, a first-generation British-born Black filmmaker, DJ, musician, and cultural commentator. The film frames Don’s story with the 1968 Enoch Powell ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech and the 2018 ‘hostile environment’ immigration policy. The film covers Don’s relationship with the nascent punk scene of the 1970s and 80s –