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Update on ASCAP film scoring workshop

September 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Jeff Kryka has forwarded his comments on the 2008 ASCAP film and television scoring workshop mentioned in the September 11th blog. Here is what he has to say:
“I was admitted into the 20th Anniversary of ASCAP’s prestigious Film
and Television Scoring Workshop with Richard Bellis. There were around
300 international applicants for this workshop, but only [...]

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Music composition student Jeff Kryka participates in ASCAP film scoring workshop

September 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Jeff Kryka–a graduate student in composition with the Department of Music, has recently participate in an ASCAP workshop on film scoring, as reported in Variety You can read about the daily activities of Jeff and the other composers at the workshop on Variety’s website at: http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=ev_ascap

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New YouTube interview with Gloria Cheng

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Music Department visiting professor Gloria Cheng, who has taught for us in several areas, has a new interview on YouTube in which she discusses differences between playing for performance and for recordings, as well as her well-known interest in contemporary music. You can see, and listen to, the interview at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHQ0HX3yl3E

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Coming soon–”Homer in Cyberspace”

April 4th, 2008 · No Comments

As some of you may know, Prof. Roger Bourland in the Music Department and Prof. Mel Shapiro in the Theater Department have been working very hard all year at collaborating on a new musical, “Homer in Cyberspace.” Funding for the production has been provided by a grant from Artsbridge here at UCLA. Information [...]

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BT Ryback performs in “History Boys”

December 5th, 2007 · No Comments

BT (aka Brett) Ryback, Class of 2006 and undergraduate composition major, is appearing this fall in the Ahmanson Theater’s production of “The History Boys”, featuring a new American cast for Alan Bennet’s play. The play was a huge hit at Britain’s National Theatre and on Broadway last year — it was also made into [...]

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