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 Peter Yates, guitar professor, will demonstrate research into bowed guitar http://www.music.ucla.edu/blog/2009/01/29/peter-yates-guitar-professor-will-demonstrate-research-into-bowed-guitar/ http://www.music.ucla.edu/blog/2009/01/29/peter-yates-guitar-professor-will-demonstrate-research-into-bowed-guitar/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:37:07 +0000 avbosen http://www.music.ucla.edu/blog/2009/01/29/peter-yates-guitar-professor-will-demonstrate-research-into-bowed-guitar/ Peter Yates, Professor of guitar in the Department of Music, will show some of the results of his recent investigations into the arpeggione (19th-century bowed guitar) in a concert at 4pm on Sunday Feb. 1st in the organ studio. He has had to build his own instrument (cruelly sacrificing a beautiful baby cello and a serviceable guitar) to do this. The result has been an instrument capable of playing items from the viola-da-gamba repertoire (featured will be a Bach sonata and a solo piece from the Dutch Baroque), as well as bowed versions of works for guitar (in this case, two pieces by 20th-century-Mexican composer Carlos Chavez).

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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 Kenny Burrell and “Bye, Bye Birdie” http://www.music.ucla.edu/blog/2008/03/10/kenny-burrell-and-bye-bye-birdie/ http://www.music.ucla.edu/blog/2008/03/10/kenny-burrell-and-bye-bye-birdie/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:54:49 +0000 avbosen http://www.music.ucla.edu/blog/2008/03/10/kenny-burrell-and-bye-bye-birdie/ 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.

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]]> http://www.music.ucla.edu/blog/2008/03/10/kenny-burrell-and-bye-bye-birdie/feed/ 2 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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