UCLA Philharmonia Orchestra, Neal Stulberg, conductor
Saturday, April 4, 7 pm
Performing specially selected Ellington extended works. Jens Lindemann, trumpeter and director of a new student brass ensemble, playing Ellington compositions. Ellington’s Music for a String Quartet arranged by Paul Chihara.
Free admission
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UCLA Percussion Ensemble, Mitchell Peters, director
Monday, April 20, 8 pm
Premiere of the winning composition from the 2008-2009 UCLA Percussion Ensemble Composition Contest, and other works, including:
Tom Gauger: Portico
Nigel Westlake: Omphalo Centric Lecture
Free admission
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UCLA Philharmonia, Neal Stulberg, conductor
Thursday, April 23, 8 pm
Neruda Concerto in E flat for Trumpet and Strings
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor), Op. 73
R. Strauss Don Juan, Op. 20
Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Jack Kent, trumpet (Winner, 2009 UCLA Atwater Kent Concerto Competition)
Stephanie Ou, piano (Winner, 2009 UCLA Atwater Kent Concerto Competition)
8:00 PM, Schoenberg Auditorium
$10 general admission, $5 students (with ID) and seniors
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Opera UCLA: Dido and Aeneas
Friday and Saturday, April 17 &18,
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday,
22, 24, 25
Check http://www.tft.ucla.edu/calendar/performance/dido-and-aeneas/
for confirmed dates and times
Little Theater, Macgowan Hall
Tickets: $7-$17
Henry Purcell’s English Baroque opera (c. 1689), directed by MFA candidate James Darrah, centers on the doomed romance between the fugitive Trojan warrior Aeneas and Dido, the Queen of Carthage. A production by the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in collaboration with the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
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UCLA Wind Ensemble, Thomas Lee, conductor
Wednesday, May 13, 8 pm
Tickets: $10, $5 seniors and students (with ID)
Ottorino Respighi: Feste Romane
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Variations on "Mein junges Leben hat ein End"
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UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music presents Mark O'Connor,
2008-2009 Herb Alpert Artist in Residence
Grammy Award-winning violinist and composer performs his final public concert of his residency, featuring a host of UCLA's outstanding musicians
Thursday, May 14, 8 pm
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music presents Mark O'Connor on Thursday, May 14, 2009, at 8 p.m., at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall, in a concert celebrating the culmination of his academic year-long residency as the inaugural Herb Alpert Artist in Residence. The event features the individuals and groups with whom O'Connor has performed, presented master classes, and instructed during his residency at UCLA: UCLA faculty members Jens Lindemann (trumpet), Movses Pogossian (violin), Antonio Lysy (cello), Guillaume Sutre, (violin), and Neal Stulberg (conductor), plus extraordinary ensembles: UCLA String Quartet, UCLA Brass Ensemble, UCLA Bluegrass Ensemble, directed by Anthony Seeger, and members of the UCLA Philharmonia.
The program includes Mark O'Connor's works: String Quartet No. 3, Wide Open Spaces, Brave Wolfe Duet, Macedonia, and the critically acclaimed Appalachia Waltz. The chamber version of Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring will also be performed.
Grammy Award-winning Mark O'Connor, UCLA's Herb Alpert Artist in Residence for the 2008-09 academic year, presents a varied program of many of his own compositions, influenced by such diverse traditions as folk, flamenco and jazz. O'Connor has "crossed over so many boundaries, his style is purely personal" (Los Angeles Times). O'Connor regularly conducts residencies, lectures, demonstrations and workshops at various music schools and programs, including Juilliard, Harvard, the Berklee College of Music, the Eastman School of Music, Rice University, the State University of New York-Fredonia, the University of Texas, the Curtis Institute of Music, Tanglewood and the Aspen Summer Festival. In June-July 2009, he will bring an outstanding music program to the UCLA community: The Mark O'Connor String Institute, open to high school students and adults. He generously donates his time in support of a number or organizations that promote music education and outreach, including Opus 118, Midori & Friends and Sphinx, and serves on the advisory panel for the selection of the Kennedy Center Honors.
Tickets: $15 general admission, $7 seniors and non-UCLA students (with ID); $5 UCLA students with BruinCard
For more information, call (310) 825-2101, or visit www.tickets.ucla.edu
PARKING: Campus parking is available for $9 in Lot 2 (enter the campus at Hilgard and Westholme avenues).
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Opera UCLA: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel
Semi-staged concert performance with the UCLA Philharmonia
Wednesday-Thursday, May 20-21, 8 pm, Schoenberg Theater
Tickets: $10; $5 UCLA faculty, seniors and students (with ID)
Conducted by Scott Dunn, the Associate Conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, will conduct the UCLA Philharmonia. With tunes such as "If I Loved You", "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "June is Bustin' Out All Over", this is one of Richard Rodgers' master scores.
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UCLA Symphony and University Chorus
Henry Shin and Stephen Karr, conductors
Wednesday, May 27, 8 pm
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet: Overture-Fantasy
Bernstein Chichester Psalms featuring the University Chorus, Boy Solo and Orchestra
Dvorak Symphony No. 9 in E minor (From the New World), Op. 95
Stephen Karr and Henry Shin, conductors
Nicholas Zammit, countertenor
Kelci Hahn, soprano
Leslie Cook, mezzo soprano
Dory Schultz, tenor
Brian Vu, baritone
8:00 PM, Schoenberg Auditorium
$10 general admission, $5 students (with ID) and seniors
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UCLA Chorale, Angeles Chorale, and UCLA Philharmonia
“The Creation” by Haydn
Saturday, June 6, 8 pm
Royce Hall. Parking: Lot 5
Tickets: $40, $30, $20
Donald Neuen, conductor; Courtney Taylor, soprano; Daniel Suk, tenor; Steve Pence, baritone. For the 200th Anniversary of the death of Franz Joseph Haydn, known as the "father of the symphony" and one of the most prominent classical composers, the Angeles Chorale, UCLA Chorale and Philharmonia will perform “The Creation”, with string choruses and rapturous arias illuminating the words of Genesis, the Psalms, and Milton's Paradise Lost.
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Information
UCLA Department of Music
(310) 825-4761
http://www.music.ucla.edu
UCLA Central Ticket Office
(310) 825-2101
www.cto.ucla.edu
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