UCLA Performing Arts Acclaimed classical pianist
Lang Lang will be performing at Schoenberg
Hall.
Lang Lang plays Schoenberg Celebrated pianist
Lang Lang will perform at Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, Jan. 27 at 8
p.m. Already an acclaimed musician by the age of 18, Lang Lang
received critical praise in 1999 when he filled in at the Ravinia
Festival with the Chicago Symphony for another soloist who had
become sick. His program features Handel, Chopin, Granados and
Tchaikovsky. Tickets are $25, $9 for UCLA students with valid ID.
To order tickets, call the UCLA Central Ticket Office at (310)
825-2101. For more information about this program or others offered
by UCLA Performing Arts, please visit the UCLA Performing Arts
homepage at http://www.performingarts.ucla.edu/.
Classical guitar concert at Powell Payam
Larijani will perform a classical guitar concert on Wednesday, Jan.
24 at 4 p.m. at the Powell Rotunda. Larijani is a UCLA music
student with an emphasis in classical guitar performance. Two-time
first place winner of the Randy Rhodes Guitar Scholarship,
Larijani’s program will contain a wide variety of pieces. The
concert will feature Baroque Prelude & Fugue of J.S. Bach,
minimalist works by Erik Satie, Renaissance pieces by Luys Narvaez,
preludes of Heitor Villa-Lobos, the Scarlatti Family Suite, in
addition to many more. For more information, visit http://www.gigmasters.com/classical/payamlarijani.
"Site Specific" The Department of World Arts
and Cultures will present “Performance is Site
Specific” Mon., Jan. 29 at 4 p.m. The show plays on Stage 200
at Kaufman Hall “Performance is Site Specific” is a
dance performance by choreographers Eiko and Koma entitled
“Artist Alphabets: Performance is … Site Specific.”
The show examines the physical, social, emotional and historical
aspects of a site, and alters the audience’s idea of place.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information,
contact the World Arts and Cultures Department at (310)
825-3951.
African art at Fowler The Fowler Museum of
Cultural History is currently hosting “Imaging Women in
African Art: Selected Sculptures from Los Angeles
Collections.” The exhibition includes 27 works of African art
meant to show a variety of female representation from across
Africa. Masks, sculptures and a colorful dance ensemble from west,
central and southeast Africa are on display. Mostly created by male
artists, the pieces show differing perceptions of femininity and
indicate diverse ideas of gender and authority. “Imaging
Women in African Art” is a companion exhibit to “Body
Politics.” For more information, contact the Fowler Museum at
(310) 825-361.
"I’m Thinking of a Place" at Hammer
“I’m Thinking of a Place” opens today at the UCLA
Hammer Museum. The exhibit runs until April 15. The show
investigates landscapes and their connection to issues of national
heritage and the formation of identity. These subjects can be seen
in many of the recent works by artists such as Lorna Simpson, Gary
Simmons and Carrie Mae Weems. “I’m Thinking of a
Place” is curated by Lisa Henry, a graduate student in
UCLA’s Critical and Curatorial Studies Program, as part of
her thesis project. For more information, contact the UCLA Hammer
Museum at (310) 443-7000.
Briefs compiled by Michael Rosen-Molina, Daily Bruin Senior
Staff.