Scotch-taped to the front of strings Professor Movses Pogossian's studio door is a quote from Russian violinist Yehudi Menuhin: "The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency "“ half tiger, half poet." This evening, a group of UCLA's first-year violin students will attempt to live up to those words. Read more...

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First-year music student Trina Bowman performs the Spring solo from Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” during a recent rehearsal. She will perform the solo tonight.

Singer-songwriter "“ it's a term that brings to mind the image of a musician playing his original songs in the darkly lit corner of a coffeehouse. Read more...

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Alumna Manda Paul, fourth-year world arts and cultures student Erica Rey and fourth-year communications student Skyler Gray will each perform their own distinct music tonight for Songwriter Sirens, a female singer-songwriter themed edition of the Fowler Out Loud concert series.

There are plenty of differences to be seen between poetry and jazz music. Read more...

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Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinksy will read poetry accompanied by jazz.

Courtesy of Emma Dodge Hanson