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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

 

The UCLA Department of Music offers a variety of events for the public's enjoyment throughout the year. Programs include faculty and student recitals and performances of high artistic accomplishment in various genres, as well as visiting artists of national and international renown. Programs are subject change. For updated information and confirmation of events, the public may call (310) 825-4761 or visit this website.

Tickets may be purchased through the UCLA Central Ticket Office by calling (310) 825-2101 or online at the CTO website: http://www.tickets.ucla.edu/. Campus parking is $8 and is available in Lot 2 for Schoenberg Hall (enter the campus at Hilgard and Westholme avenues) and in Lot 4 for Royce Hall (enter the campus at Sunset Boulevard and Westwood Plaza).

A more accurate listing of Royce Hall events can be found at UCLALive: http://www.uclalive.org/calendar.asp

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UCLA DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC EVENTS FOR SPRING 2008
 

UCLA Department of Music Events for Spring 2008

Eleanore Reznikoff, earez@arts.ucla.edu                             
(310) 825-6540                                                                         
Kathleen Moon, kmoon@arts.ucla.edu
(310) 825-4760

The UCLA Department of Music offers a variety of events for the public's enjoyment throughout the year. Programs include faculty and student recitals and performances of high artistic accomplishment in various genres, as well as visiting artists of national and international renown. Programs are subject to change. For updated information and confirmation of events, the public may call (310) 825-4761 or visit the department's Web site at www.music.ucla.edu.  

Tickets may be purchased through the UCLA Central Ticket Office by calling (310) 825-2101. Campus parking is $8 and is available in Lot 2 for Schoenberg Hall (enter the campus at Hilgard and Westholme avenues).

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Wednesday, May 14
UCLA Wind Ensemble and
UCLA Symphonic Band

Ian Krouse, guest conductor
Michael Dean, bass-baritone
8 p.m., Schoenberg Hall
$7 general admission, $3 students (with ID) and seniors

Ian Krouse’s new composition, “On the Beach at Night” will be premiered with bass-baritone Michael Dean. The program also features “J’ai été au bal” by Donald Grantham and “Bells for Stokowski” by Michael Daugherty.

Composed of students from every academic area of study, both undergraduate and graduate, this 50-piece ensemble has gained an international reputation for its performances. Don’t miss their season finale concert!

 

Friday, May 16, at 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 17, at 2 p.m.
Saturday May 17, at 8 p.m.
Sunday, May 18, at 2 p.m.

Opera UCLA--Brecht & Weill’s 3pennyopera

Peter Kazaras, director
Stephen Karr, conductor
The New LATC
Los Angeles Theater Center
514 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013

A shocking success ever since its Berlin premiere in 1928, Brecht and Weill's 3pennyopera gets a new production with a decidedly LA twist.  Come follow the exploits of antihero Macheath as he gets in and out of trouble with louche lowlife!  Is he a rat, or merely trying to put together a deal?  Come hear such classics as "Mack the Knife" and "Pirate Jenny," performed in their original jazz band orchestrations. 3pennyopera will be performed in English. 

Call Central Ticket office at (310) 825-2101 for tickets.

Admission: $25 general, $15 UCLA faculty, staff, & seniors (age 55 and over), $10 students with I.D.

 

Thursday, May 22
UCLA Philharmonia


7:00 PM "The Forest for the Trees"

A pre-concert recital and discussion with renowned American composer and UCLA professor Paul Chihara, who celebrates his 70th birthday this year.  "Forest Music," which opens the Philharmonia orchestra concert at 8 PM, is the culmination of Chihara's cycle of seven tone pictures about trees.   The recital will feature Philharmonia musicians performing excerpts from three of these works: "Redwood" for viola and percussion; "Logs" for string basses; and "Willow, WIllow" for bass flute, tuba and percussion.

8:00 PM Orchestra Concert

Paul Chihara "Forest Music" (1970)
Berlioz "Les Nuits d'Eté"
Debussy "La Mer"
Ravel "La Valse"

Peabody Southwell, mezzo-soprano (Winner of the Atwater Kent Voice Concerto Competition)
Neal Stulberg, conductor

8 PM; Schoenberg Music Theater
$7 general admission/$3 students (with ID) and seniors


Wednesday, May 28
UCLA Symphony Orchestra

Elizabeth Morgan, harpsichord
Stephen Karr, conductor
8 p.m., Schoenberg Hall
$7 general admission, $3 students (with ID) and seniors

UCLA Symphony, UCLA's campus-wide orchestra, concludes its season with a colorful program of symphonic masterpieces.

Wagner: Overture to "The Flying Dutchman"
Poulenc: "Concerto Champetre"
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Op. 68 ("Pastorale)

 

Thursday, May 29 – Sunday, June 1
Opera UCLA

Menotti’s The Medium
Stephen Karr, conductor
James Darrah, director
8 p.m.
Room 1343 (Orchestra Room), Schoenberg Music Building
Free
D.M.A. project of mezzo soprano Rose Beattie

One of the great works of twentieth century opera, The Medium is Menotti's compelling drama about a fraudulent medium unraveling into a state of utter fear, superstition and physical violence. Opera UCLA presents a very intimate, minimalist, new production that places the audience in and around the performers/musicians and emphasizes the intense psychological content of Menotti's haunting story and score.

The Medium will be performed in English, and conducted by Stephen Karr, with a chamber orchestra made up of members of the UCLA Philharmonia. Director James Darrah is an MFA student in Directing at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Very limited seating. Call (310) 825-4761 for more information.
                       

Wednesday, June 4
UCLA Women’s Chorus and University Chorus

Irene Messoloras, conductor

8 p.m., Schoenberg Hall
$7 general admission, $3 students (with ID) and seniors

Irene Messoloras will conduct her final program in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Musical Arts. The program of folk music from around the world will feature Greek folk songs, which Irene has collected and arranged for the ensembles.

 

Thursday, June 5
UCLA Philharmonia

Neal Stulberg, conductor
7:30 p.m.; Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
"In the Land of the Headhunters"

UCLA Philharmonia accompanies a newly-restored version of Edward Curtis’ landmark 1914 silent film “In the Land of the Headhunters” with its original score by John Braham at the Getty Center’s Harold M. Williams Auditorium. This collaborative project involving the Getty Research Institute, UCLA Film and Television Archives, Field Museum of Natural History and U’Mista Cultural Society in British Columbia is part of a Getty Institute symposium entitled “Curtis Meets the Kwakwaka’wakw,” exploring the connections between the history and culture of the Kwakwaka’wakw people of British Columbia, Curtis’ film and Braham’s score.

Call (310) 440-7300 for further information.

 

Saturday, June 7
UCLA Chorale, Angeles Chorale and American Youth Symphony

Brahms “German Requiem”
Khori Dastoor, soprano
In Joon Jang, baritone
Donald Neuen, conductor
8 p.m., Royce Hall
Admission: $40, $30, $20

The German Requiem by Johannes Brahms is one of the most beloved works of the extended choral literature. Brahms not only created an exceptionally beautiful musical composition, filled with moments of serenity and hope; he also made a highly personal statement of his vision of death by abandoning the traditional Latin Requiem text and substituting his own, much more optimistic, German libretto. Hence, A German Requiem.

The concert will also include a performance of Two Peruvian Preludes: Macchu Picchu, The Inca Retreat, composed by and honoring retired UCLA professor emeritus, musicologist and composer Dr. Robert Stevenson, who will also be attending.  The two highly acclaimed soloists are Khori Dastoor (soprano), currently concluding her doctoral studies at UCLA, and In Joon Jang (baritone), who recently earned his Master of Music in voice and is also completing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at UCLA.