These three Bruins will be giving private and public performances in Lyon, France, Tirana, Albania, and Geneva, Switzerland and will be joined by drummer and former UCLA exchange student Philip Maniez, who is in his first year of graduate studies at the Paris Upper Conservatory. Read more...
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Jazz studies undergraduates Julian Le, Owen Clapp and Jonah Levine will tour Europe this December as the UCLA jazz ambassadors.
Natalia Kartashova, guest piano soloist for the UCLA Symphony, remembers the intense competition that young musicians faced in Russia. Read more...
In about two weeks, singer and NBC's "The Sing-Off" judge Sara Bareilles will be at the Hollywood Palladium, finishing up her "Kaleidoscope Heart" tour with one of its last shows. Read more...
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Courtesy of Heidi Ross
Discordant notes ring through the air as Bobby Rodriguez's LatinJazz class tunes their instruments. Rodriguez comes into the room, handing out sheet music to each student before rushing back out to settle another matter, only to enter again a couple minutes later. Anticipation and excitement fill the air as the students "“ and the teacher "“ prepare for a concert that will showcase what they've learned this past quarter. Read more...
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Director Bobby Rodriguez’s UCLA Big Band rehearses for its upcoming performance at today’s Big Band Holiday Concert. Three different ensembles will be featured: Rodriguez’s LatinJazz Big Band, Charley Harrison’s Jazz Orchestra and Kenny Burrell’s Jazz Fusion Ensemble. The event is called a holiday concert, but holiday-themed music will not be played by any of the groups.
Most UCLA students would not choose to spend their Friday nights in a parking garage. Yet from midnight to 3 a.m., there is no place that the five members of The Internship would rather be. Read more...
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Courtesy of Connor Vance
The Internship performs at Bruin Plaza during Thank UCLA Day. Tonight, it will perform with Owl Fly South at Kerckhoff Coffee House.
After seeing a performance last weekend in tribute of Kenny Burrell and his musical accomplishments, some UCLA student musicians were inspired to emulate the same passion in tonight's Jazz Combo Concert. Read more...
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Ethnomusicology Professor Kenny Burrell sits with fourth-year jazz studies student Julian Le at a rehearsal for the UCLA Jazz Combo Concert tonight in Schoenberg Hall.
Before the UCLA Early Music Ensemble began practicing its piece by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, conductor and director Lindsey Strand-Polyak told her students that she came across a misspelling of one of Baroque's most famous violinists with the spelling "Bieber." Read more...
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The UCLA Early Music Ensemble, led by conductor and director Lindsey Strand-Polyak, will perform as part of Powell Library’s Music Series.
