Momentarily stepping aside from a dinner during a vacation in Lake George, N.Y., Bryan Welch, The AM’s vocalist and rhythm guitarist, listened to a recording his bandmate had sent him earlier that day. Read more...
Photo: Members of the alternative rock band The AM met in their fall 2012 Sigma Nu fraternity pledge class and will make their Spring Sing debut Friday at Pauley Pavilion performing the band’s original song “Wake Up.” (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin)
France, Italy, Germany – these are the countries most represented in lists of European cinema’s most beloved films. There are exceptions, yes – you have your Ingmar Bergman movies and your Andrei Tarkovsky pictures, but the trend is unmistakable. Read more...
Photo: (P.P. Film Polski) “Masterpieces of Polish Cinema,” presented by Martin Scorsese, is an ongoing cinematic program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Cinefamily. Spanning the months of May and June, the exhibition features films such as Andrzej Wajda’s “Innocent Sorcerers.”
The first time Alex Liu and Eric Jung met was during a desperate scramble to fill empty spaces in a production roster. As a second-year student, Liu realized his fraternity’s 2011 Spring Sing production was lacking musicians and reached out to Jung, then a first-year, through recommendations by friends and fraternity brothers. Read more...
Photo: (Shreya Aiyar/Daily Bruin) Three years after meeting at Omega Sigma Tau fraternity, fourth-year neuroscience student Eric Jung (left) and fifth-year world arts and cultures student Alex Liu (right) will perform Friday at Spring Sing 2014.
Courtney Randall dreamed about singing at Spring Sing before she’d even been accepted to UCLA. In 2011, her dream came true. Randall, a first-year at the time, took home the award for best overall entry and the honor of best solo artist the following year. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Bryant Hom) Third-year mechanical engineering student Moonsoo Jo (left), known under the stage name Beat Rhino, will perform a duet at Spring Sing with fourth-year psychology student and singer-songwriter Courtney Randall (right).
Spring Sing 2014 duet performers Brandon Bakhshi and Yasmeen Al-Mazeedi said working toward Spring Sing feels not just like bonding on a musical level, but almost like a marriage. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Nikki Klepper) Having both performed at Spring Sing last year, third-year violin performance and political science student Yasmeen Al-Mazeedi and fourth-year psychology student Brandon Bakhshi will perform as a duet this Friday.
Check out A&E's weeklong coverage of Spring Sing 2014, with profiles of this year's student musicians, dancers and actors participating in UCLA's oldest musical tradition. Read more...
Sienna Moffitt, a second-year Design | Media Arts student, grew up participating in musicals and singing covers of songs that other artists had already made famous. Read more...
Photo: Second-year Design | Media Arts student Sienna Moffitt will perform her original song “I Shan’t Be There (When You Go)” at Spring Sing. (Gabrielle Cabalza/Daily Bruin)
