Incorporating young talent from all over Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, the American Youth Symphony aims to provide pre-professional musicians with the skills they need to earn places in top orchestras. Read more...

Photo: Conductor Alexander Treger leads the American Youth Symphony in Royce Hall. The symphony features pre-professional talent from the Los Angeles area performing works by Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Shape-shifting is not just for wizards and politicians anymore "“ Professor Peter Yates is applying the concept to guitar as he plays multiple shapes of the instrument and produces a variety of sounds this evening. Read more...

Photo: Professor and guitarist Peter Yates performs tonight at the Jan Popper Theater at 8 p.m. alongside performances by local guest musicians.

There are people, undoubtedly, who believe that engineering and belly-dancing are mutually exclusive. But these are people who have never sat in the audience at the Engineering Society's E-Week Idol, the talent competition that occurs tonight on the first night of Engineering Week. Read more...

Photo: ENGINEERING SOCIETY of UCLA Members of UCLA’s Engineering Society are preparing for tonight’s “E-Week Idol,” a talent competition that showcases the group’s non-engineering skills and artistic endeavors. The event is part of Engineering Week.

Facebook and a cappella may seem like an odd pairing, but not for the gentlemen of Bruin Harmony. Read more...

Photo: Bruin Harmony performs “I Shall Be Free” at the 2009 Spring Sing. The a cappella group will appear in David Fincher’s upcoming film, “The Social Network.”

The tune "Hello Ma Baby" was written around the turn of the 20th century, but it was immortalized in 1955 by a frog "“ Michigan J. Frog, actually, the vaudevillian Warner Bros. character, who sang it with a top hat and a cane in a cartoon called "One Froggy Evening." Read more...

Photo: Musician and UCLA alumna Megan Lynch performs in Berkeley in March. She released her first album last fall.

In a town like Westwood, one might expect a pretty girl with shining black curls and a flair for fashion to be headed out to a fraternity on a Thursday night. Read more...

Photo: Sephora Woldu with some of her favorite vinyl records. Thursday nights, Woldu can be found on the corner of Landfair and Ophir, DJing “Boom Box Thursdays.”