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Shanghai Jiao Tong University Symphony Orchestra
“2009 U.S. Tour”
Fri, September 25, 8 PM
Free admission
Two Time International Competition Gold Medal Winner -- First U.S. tour
Established in 1896, Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) has a long history of arts education. It has had its own symphonic orchestra since 1920s. Twice the winner of gold medals in the international band competition in 2001 and 2003, the Orchestra is under the direction of the world acclaimed director Cao Peng, former chief conductor of Shanghai Symphonic Orchestra.
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UCLA Philharmonia
“Africa Meets North America”
Sat, October 24, 8 PM
Free admission
Neal Stulberg, conductor. UCLA Philharmonia performs William Banfield's "Essay for Orchestra" in conjunction with “Africa Meets North America,” an international conference co-hosted by the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology. See http://amna.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/about.htm.
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UCLA Philharmonia
Thu, October 29, 8 PM
Tickets: $12, $5 UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
Neal Stulberg, conductor and pianist.
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
Mahler: Symphony No. 5.
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UCLA Wind Ensemble
Nov. 4th, 8:00 PM
Thomas Lee, conductor
Tickets: $12; $5 for UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
The UCLA Wind Ensemble performs great Russian masterworks for wind
ensemble, and the student winner of the 13th annual "What Music Means to
Me" essay contest at John Adams Middle School will conduct John Philip
Sousa's popular march "Stars and Stripes Forever."
The UCLA Wind Ensemble will also perform settings of Leonard Bernstein's
Mass and West Side Story, as
well as works by Berlioz, Persichetti and Spaniola.
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Undergraduate Composers
Monday, Nov. 9, 8pm, Jan Popper Theater
Free admission
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Vitaly Margulis, piano
Thu, November 12, 8 PM
Tickets: $12, $5 UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
Solo piano recital: Selections from Grieg's Lyric Pieces and Chopin's Etudes.
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Hye-Won Cho, piano (DMA Recita)l
Saturday, Nov. 14, 8pm, Schoenberg Hall
Free admission
Program includes:
Liszt – Liebestraum
Liszt – Rigoletto
Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite for two pianos
Schubert - Der Wanderer (solo piano and singer)
Schubert - Wanderer Fantasy (solo piano)
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UCLA Philharmonia & UCLA Chorale
Thu, November 19, 8 PM
Tickets: $15, $5 UCLA students (with ID)
UCLA Philharmonia is the featured ensemble in the inaugural public event of the new UCLA Center for the Liberal Arts and Free Institutions. The concert is part of the Center’s Lincoln Bicentennial conference, and includes Copland's Canticle of Freedom
for chorus and orchestra (1955), and the world premiere of Lincoln Echoes, a cantata for narrator, tenor, baritone,
chorus and orchestra, based on texts by Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama, by UCLA
faculty member David Lefkowitz.
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Jubilate!: UCLA Early Music Ensemble and UCLA Brass Ensemble
Saturday, November 21
8:00 p.m.
Elisabeth LeGuin, Director
Free admission
The newly formed UCLA Early Music Ensemble makes its debut in the PowellLibrary Building in a program of Italian and new world polychoral sacredmusic and canzoni from around 1600, including works by composersGiovanni Gabrieli, Giovanni Paolo Cima, Juan de Araujo, and otherMexican or Latin American composers. With the UCLA Brass Ensemble, theywill joyfully explore the splendid acoustics of the rotunda.
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UCLA Symphony
Wed, December 2, 8 PM
Tickets: $12, $5 UCLA students (with ID)
Ayse Taspinar, piano; Henry Shin and Jorge Uzcategui, conductors.
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3; Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21; Balakirev: Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21.
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UCLA Faculty Composers
"Back to the 70s"
Thu, December 3, 8 PM
Tickets: $12, $5 UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
Featuring the works of Munir Beken, Roger Bourland, Mark Carlson, Paul Chihara, Ian Krouse, David Lefkowitz, and James Newton. Performers include the UCLA Faculty String Quartet: Movses Pogossian, Guillaume Sutre, Richard O'Neil and Antonio Lysy, among others.
David Lefkowitz: Calder's Closet (Kyung-Hee Kim, harp, Walter Ponce, piano, Kenneth McGrath, vibraphone, and a percussionist TBA)
Ian Krouse: String Quartet No. 1 (1975) UCLA Faculty String Quartet (Movses Pogossian, Guillaume Sutre, Richard O'Neil, Antonio Lysy)
Mark Carlson: Patchen Songs (1976) Vladimir Chernov, baritone, and Rakefet Hak, pizno
Paul Chihara: Redwood
Roger Bourland: Clariña (1977) for three clarinets
Münir Beken: Holes in the Japanese Lamp for solo violin and cello
James Newton: TBA
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UCLA Chorale, Chamber Singers, University Chorus & UCLA Philharmonia
Chamber Orchestra--
Handel’s “Messiah”
Sat, December 5, 8 PM
Royce Hall; parking: Lot 5
Tickets: $15, $10
Donald Neuen and Anthony Maglione, conductors; soloists TBA. Handel’s beloved oratorio, The Messiah.
UCLA Chamber Singers will provide pre-concert Carols in the Royce Hall lobby.
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