UCLA music professor Gary Gray said the instant people hear the words “classical chamber music,” most people instantly bow out of the conversation. Yet, in its eighth year, the Woodwind World concert has continued to attract a crowd of interested music students, with students and faculty performing together in Schoenberg’s Jan Popper Theater on Thursday night. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of Anita David) The eighth annual Woodwind World concert, created by music professor Gary Gray, will take place in Schoenberg’s Jan Popper Theater Thursday night.

For nearly four months after their graduation, UCLA alumni Satoru Yamamoto and Kevin Moultrie devoted long hours to writing songs on a grand piano in their shabby downtown Los Angeles loft and totraveling back to Westwood for practice sessions at the Treehouse on a weekly basis. Read more...

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