We have heard from student Matt Sandler, who is this year’s official blographer for the Music Department’s Summer Chamber Music Institute for high school students. Here is what he has to say:
“With the UCLA Summer Chamber Music Institute well on its way, this year’s participants have been on a whirlwind musical adventure thus far. […]

Over the 4th of July weekend, Professor of Trumpet Jens Lindemann performed at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, collaborating with Professor Don Neuen’s Cathedral Choir in a great rendition of “America the Beautiful.” You can watch the piece performed online at the Crystal Cathedral’s website at: http://www.crystalcathedral.org/hour_of_power/index.php.
Find the clip of the trumpet […]

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

We have hears this from Professor Juliana Gondek about her former student Shannon Haley:
“I’ve just gotten word that one of my former undergraduate voice students, Shannon Haley, has released a new CD of country western love songs, “Someday Soon”, which has received a rave review from one of the top internet country music sites. Her […]

Photograph by Beth Coller. Courtesy of the L.A. Times
A talented ingenue L.A. Opera’s soprano, Angel Joy Blue, in L.A. Opera’s costume shop, was born to sing.
By Laurie Winer, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 6, 2008
When she was born, Angel Joy Blue’s father, Sylvester Blue, held her up and noticed that she had a […]

Here’s a request we had yesterday from Ryan Svendsen, a sophomore trumpet major in the Music Department:
Hi,
I am entering in a National Sigma Nu performing arts competition via Youtube. In my video, I pay tribute to famous Sigma Nu alumni by playing their songs or songs affiliated with them. The more views I […]

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 […]

On March 14th, the Music Department’s Senate faculty had an all-day planning retreat at May’s Landing, the wonderful Malibu property left to the University by Genevieve and Philip May. The Mays purchased a cottage on the bluffs of Point Dume in 1959, when there were only 3 houses on the point. Today it […]

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, […]

The attached photo from Bye, Bye Birdie, dated c. 1960 was recently spotted by Musicology Chair Raymond Knapp. His sharp eyes identified the guitarist as our very own Ethnomusicology Professor and head of Jazz Studies, Kenny Burrell.