Vocal Night: A Tribute to Los Angeles Jazz and Blues Legend, Barbara Morrison
Vocal Night: A tribute to Los Angeles Jazz and Blues Legend, Barbara Morrison, featuring UCLA Global Jazz Studies vocalists and special guests.
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Textures of Dreams: An Evening with UCLA Undergraduate Composers
This concert features a vibrant program of new music by our undergraduate composers. The program will include works by Yoni Fogelman, Harrison Garff, Celina Kintscher, Jahan Raymond, Mia Ruhman, Sydney Wang, and Jonathan Wu. This event is made possible by the David and Irmgard Dobrow Fund. Classical music was a passion of the Dobrows,
Woodwind Chamber Music Winter Concert
The Winter Woodwind Chamber Music Concert features over 50 performers in 11 different ensembles performing works by Carl Nielsen, Joseph Haydn, Jeff Scott, Leoš Janáček, Antonín Dvorák, Georg Philipp Telemann, Robert Muczynski, Yvonne Disports, David Maslanka, Alfred Ahl, and Francis Poulenc. Collaboration is at the heart of The UCLA Woodwind Chamber Music program and students work together to
Ethnomusicology as a Gateway to Design Ethnography
Laith Ulaby will talk about his experiences applying ethnographic approaches to the worlds of technology and beyond. He will discuss how to translate and transfer academic skills into new domains and explore some of the common pitfalls.
2023 UCLA Piano Marathon – Piano Transcriptions!
The yearly UCLA Piano Marathon features all the piano students from the piano studios of Inna Faliks and David Kaplan in a themed, evening-long concert. This year’s theme is “Piano Transcription!” – re-purposed for solo and duo piano. This celebration of the glory of the piano ranges from Liszt transcriptions of Schubert to our own
An Evening with R. Carlos Nakai and William Eaton
Join Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai and guitarist/luthier William Eaton for a dual lecture, joint conversation, and musical demo. Areas of discussion will include the negotiative aspects of collective improvisation, the practice of duetting across musical traditions, and the complex relationships between performer and instrument. WILLIAM EATON Eaton designs and builds innovative guitars and
Learning (With) Software: Listening to and Making Contemporary Recordings
This workshop is designed to introduce researchers to the main tools musicians and audio engineers use to make recordings. Expert audio engineer and pedagogue Jasmine Chen (Haim, Syd) will demonstrate and demystify some of the standard DAWs, and work with the audience to explore some of the features, constraints, and technical detail of digital recording. Catherine Provenzano,
Listening Intersectionally to Gentrification in Washington, D.C.
Gentrification is often considered through a visual lens, where development, progress, and neighborhood change are seen. But what does gentrification sound like? In this talk, Allie Martin outlines a framework of “intersectional listening” in order to explore what gentrification sounds like in Washington, DC, specifically how Black people throughout the city are experiencing gentrification as a sonic, racialized process.
The 100 Percenters: a conversation with music industry innovators
Music Creative non-profit The 100 Percenters will join UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music to host a panel about how music creatives and executives can have a more productive relationship in the digital age. Tiffany Red is a multifaceted artist hailing from South Jersey. With a passion for music and community service, she has established
From Creativity to Ideology in North Korean Music and Dance: Reconstructing How Autocracy Removed Artistic Freedom
For half a century, a monolithic artistic policy has gone hand in hand with absolute political autocracy in North Korea. How did this emerge? This presentation explores debates among musicians and dancers in key North Korean journals during the 1950s and 1960s.