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...
Sarah Dougherty was inspired by the idea of plants taking over the city of Los Angeles. Read more...
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Graduate students in the department of art will show their thesis projects in the first of a series of four exhibitions. Graduate ceramics student Timo Fahler created the above work, “The precarious notion of one day at a time.”
BY michael palumbo Last week, Lindsay Lohan hosted "Saturday Night Live," and the show received its second-highest ratings this season. 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.
Game players come in every shape and size, and in today's world of smartphones and Facebook gaming, it's getting harder to find someone that doesn't play games, even casually. Read more...
