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 [...]

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, [...]

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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This week, Ro Rowan showed up in UCLA’s monthly magazine UCLA TODAY.

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Ro Rowan, personal fitness training coordinator, UCLA Recreation
I graduated from the Musicology Department ‘04. As an undergraduate, I attended many events: concerts, museums, lunchtime music in Bruin Plaza, sporting events, free lectures, movies in Ackerman — [...]

My summer started with my family visiting me at the very end of a 6-month research trip in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I managed to wind down the 1st stage of my research of the music industry there, draft up the majority of a dissertation chapter, and squeeze in a little of bit of travel [...]