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Project Rishi: Concert April 26th

April 21st, 2008 · No Comments


Tags: Musicology · Performance · Ethnomusicology · Faculty · Performers · Ethnomusicologists · World Music · Performance · Music history

Musicologist Olivia Bloechl awarded ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

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, […]

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Kenny Burrell and “Bye, Bye Birdie”

March 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Anne Akiko Meyers–2008 Regents Lecturer in the UCLA Department of Music

February 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment

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.
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