music @ UCLA » Music History http://www.music.ucla.edu/blog Posts by UCLA students, faculty and staff from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:56:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Shanghai Jiaotong University Orchestra performs at UCLA http://www.music.ucla.edu/blog/2009/10/21/shanghai-jiaotong-university-orchestra-performs-at-ucla/ http://www.music.ucla.edu/blog/2009/10/21/shanghai-jiaotong-university-orchestra-performs-at-ucla/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:56:55 +0000 avbosen http://www.music.ucla.edu/blog/?p=317 Professor Neal Stulberg, Director of Orchestral Studies for the Department of Music, has shared this news about a recent performance by the Shanghai Jiaotong University Orchestra’s visit, and the photos below were shared by Director Tim Rice of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music:

“On September 25 at Schoenberg Hall, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and the Confucius Institute hosted the opening concert of a United States tour by the Shanghai Jiaotong University Symphony Orchestra. Shanghai Jiaotong University is one of China’s great scientific research institutions, and its orchestra has a long and honored tradition in China and abroad. The hall was packed for this free concert, led by one of China’s most revered conductors, Cao Peng, and the program was a fascinating mix of classical symphonic showpieces and arrangements of Chinese traditional folk and classical music. The students in the orchestra – none of whom are music majors – played with great skill and energy (especially given that they had just arrived in the U.S. the day before and had spent most of their concert day touring Universal Studios!) The president of the university, a former violinist in the orchestra, spoke proudly to the audience before the concert, and it was my pleasure to present Maestro Cao Peng with a Certificate of Artistic Achievement from our school.

The president and others from the university expressed their strong interest in inviting UCLA Philharmonia to perform in Shanghai. Nothing would please me more!

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Professor Olivia Bloechl

We have just learned that Professor Olivia Bloech has been awarded an ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, which will fund a year’s leave and enable her to write her second book, The Politics of Memory in French Baroque Opera. Research for the book will take her to archives in Paris, Marseilles, Bordeaux, and Nantes, and she is looking forward (as who would not) to getting started with her upcoming trip to Paris in May!

]]> http://www.music.ucla.edu/blog/2008/03/31/musicologist-olivia-bloechl-awarded-acls-charles-a-ryskamp-research-fellowship/feed/ 0 Anne Akiko Meyers–2008 Regents Lecturer in the UCLA Department of Music http://www.music.ucla.edu/blog/2008/02/21/anne-akiko-meyers-2008-regents-lecturer-in-the-ucla-department-of-music/ http://www.music.ucla.edu/blog/2008/02/21/anne-akiko-meyers-2008-regents-lecturer-in-the-ucla-department-of-music/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:06:54 +0000 avbosen http://www.music.ucla.edu/blog/2008/02/21/anne-akiko-meyers-2008-regents-lecturer-in-the-ucla-department-of-music/ Anne Akiko Meyers, one of today’s most exciting violinists, will be in residence for two weeks in May 2008 at the UCLA Department of Music as a Regents Lecturer. She is making a quick trip to California in February as well, and we encourage you to attend one of the exciting events presented blow.

FEBRUARY 23-MUSEUM OF MAKING MUSIC
Italian Recital with Kevin Fitz-Gerald in CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA

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February 23: Violin in America Panel Discussion
At 2 PM, join two world-renowned instrument makers and a leading entrepreneur-turned-advocate for violin education in a whirlwind tour of the past, present, and future of violin and bow making. Guided by the founder and publisher of Strings Magazine, this expert panel leads you through the instrument’s birth in the Italian Renaissance, its arrival in the New World, and the recent advances in technology that are reshaping the craft of violin and bow making. Tickets are $10 for the general public; $7 for students and Free for Museum Members.

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February 23: Violin in America Opening Reception
The special exhibition “The Violin in America: Old World Tradition, New World Sound” explores the transplanting of European violin making traditions to American soil. The Opening Reception for this exhibition takes place on February 23 and features the talented Anne Akiko Meyers and The Hutchins Consort. Reservation are required. Tickets are $30; Members can purchase tickets for $20.


FEBRUARY 25th-COLBURN SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS, LOS ANGELES, CA.
MASTERCLASS FROM 2-4 PM

FEBRUARY 26-CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY, ORANGE COUNTY, CA.
MASTERCLASS FROM 2-4 PM

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FEBRUARY 28-MARCH 2, PACIFIC SYMPHONY WITH CARL ST.CLAIR
ORANGE COUNTY, CA.
MENDELSSOHN CONCERTO
http://pacificsymphony.entericorp.com/show_details.php?shid=123

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