Spring is here, and with the new season comes new music and movies. There are plenty of releases coming out in the next few months, but the A&E editors have chosen some albums and films to be especially excited about heading into April, May and June. Read more...
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The Five Year Engagement
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Joshua Elder is going to become a doctor. Between taking board examinations, attending class and auditioning for residency, any time Elder has just 10 minutes to spare, he will pick up his guitar and strum a couple of Tyrone Wells tunes. Read more...
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A capella group The GeffeNotes rehearses for tonight’s talent show, which will feature medical students of all years. Performances range from acoustic sets to piano pieces and dances.
Once a week, the upbeat sound of spirited string instruments consumes Schoenberg Hall as about 20 musicians come together to learn about bluegrass and old-time style music. Read more...
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The L.A. BlueGrassHoppers is UCLA’s bluegrass and old-time style ensemble that returned from a seven-year hiatus when UCLA ethnomusicology alumnus Tommy Stanton brought the group back four years ago. The group’s instrumentation includes the banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitar and bass.
Madonna is in Mexico. Only she's not the Madonna most Americans think of "“ she is in the 95 degree heat of Mazatlan, sick with a fever while hordes of people outside call her name, asking her to sing. Read more...
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Professor of voice opera studies Juliana Gondek will be a performer in Chamber Music at UCLA’s “Faculty Composers: Songs, Arias and Rituals” held in Schoenberg Hall at 8 p.m. on Monday.
Mark Carlson, UCLA professor of composition, composer and founder of L.A.-based chamber music group Pacific Serenades, said one of his fondest memories was 20 years ago, when he showcased his first full musical piece after the death of his life partner. Read more...
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Theory and composition professor Mark Carlson founded Pacific Serenades, a chamber music group, as a graduate student at UCLA.
Bruce Springsteen took a pretty big step this week. He released "Wrecking Ball," a masterpiece of a rock album in which he sings about the troubles of our time more directly than he has before. Oh, and he did something else too. He adopted a generation: ours. Read more...
It isn't often that UCLA students get to share the stage with their professors here at UCLA. But when Alicia Mastromonaco was suddenly asked to step in for her professor, who had to tour with the San Francisco Symphony, she jumped at the opportunity to perform with her mentors. Read more...
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Tonight, UCLA music students will perform alongside their professors during the “It’s a Woodwind World VI” concert featuring chamber music by composers from different eras.
