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.
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In the middle of August, Italy just stops. Read more...
Sitting cross-legged in a dance studio in Kaufman Hall is a gaggle of women, chitchatting and prepping for rehearsals for Angela Jordan's final master of fine arts performance. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student Angela Jordan will present her choreography in the MFA Upstarts performance “Herstories,” which emphasizes themes of female empowerment.
The iconic scene in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" that has made generations scared of shower curtains ever since "“ the beauty of Janet Leigh, a bathtub, a knife "“ owes much of its spine-tingling terror to the accompanying music of intensely screeching violins. Read more...
Photo: Photo Illustration by MAX CHANG/daily bruin senior staff
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.
In a history seminar of mine last week, we spent a solid chunk of class discussing the current state of television, and many of us expressed the belief that it should no longer be defined as a culture-less cesspool of Paula Abdul and laugh tracks. Read more...
