The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at UCLA will be known as the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance at UCLA effective Jan. 1, 2019.

In this Innovating Music podcast, Gigi Johnson interviews Cherie Hu, a reporter with a front-row seat to tech and music change. Cherie reports for Forbes, Billboard, Variety, Pitchfork, Music Business Worldwide, and other publications. She talked about new work in music and AI, her favorite conferences, her travel as a reporter, and her exploration of how music is merging with other industries.

World-wide celebrations are underway honoring American composer, conductor and educator Leonard Bernstein, who would have been 100 on August 25, 2018. Opera UCLA joins the global celebration with an evening dedicated to Bernstein’s theater music plus his late masterpiece SONGFEST, on Nov. 17.

That “Solid Gold Sound” you’ll hear on Grammy award-winning band Muse’s latest album comes from none other than the UCLA Bruin Marching Band.

The Board of Trustees of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz announced November 6, 2018 that effective January 1, 2019 the Institute will become the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz.

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