Just received from Music Department professor Neal Stulberg, Director of Orchestral Studies: “On July 24, 2010 at Mannes College in New York, I was honored to participate in a daylong centennial tribute to Leonard Shure (1910-1995), a magnificent American pianist and one of my formative teachers. The symposium included sessions about Shure’s recordings, showings of [...]

Professor Neal Stulberg has shared with us a recent “Bloomsday” experience at the Hammer Museum: “June 16 is celebrated around the world as “Bloomsday” — the 24-hour period portrayed in James Joyce’s epic novel “Ulysses.” (The protagonists of the book are Leopold and Molly Bloom.) This past June 16, Los Angeles celebrated Bloomsday at the [...]

We have heard some exciting news from Musicology graduate student Marianna Ritchey about her summer plans. She says: “I’m a sixth year in the Musicology department, finishing up my dissertation (Susan McClary is my chair) and applying for jobs this year. This summer I got a CEES grant to spend a month in Paris doing [...]

Bess Lomax Hawes, a musician, folklorist and prominent anthropologist at CalState Northridge passed away in November 2009. She was 88. Steeped in folk music from birth, she was the youngest child of John A. Lomax and Bess Bauman Brown. Born Jan. 21, 1921, in Austin, Texas, she was home-schooled by her mother, who also taught [...]

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. FEBRUARY [...]

This week, Ro Rowan showed up in UCLA’s monthly magazine UCLA TODAY. . 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 — you can’t beat just a [...]

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 [...]