They were lucky, if it could be called luck. Read more...
Photo: Faculty and students of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music will be performing tonight for the seventh annual “It’s a Woodwind World” concert. One of the pieces will be Trio, Op. 2 by Leon Levitch, a Jewish composer, Holocaust survivor and UCLA alumnus. Levitch began composing music at an early age, and was able to learn from a fellow refugee and pianist at an Italian internment camp during World War II.
I’ve written about a couple of huge music festivals this quarter. Read more...
Photo: South by Southwest takes over the city of Austin, Texas, with bands performing at venues that range from amphitheaters to barbecue joints.
Students in UCLA Camarades don’t only learn from their professors during lectures – they also get to make music with them on stage. Read more...
Scott Griffiths has published best-selling books on art and beer, started a craft beer brand called Rhino Chasers, worked on branding for Fortune 500 companies, lectured in business classes at universities like UCLA and Pepperdine and most recently wrote a book detailing Renaissance men and the characteristics that defined them. Read more...
Photo: Scott Griffiths (right) stands with Frank Nuovo (middle) and David Stewart (left), two of the men featured in his new book “Beyond Genius: The 12 Essential Traits of Today’s Renaissance Men.”
One thing I learned a long time ago is that the music of tomorrow cannot be written without the music we have today. Read more...
Photo: The sound that Stone Temple Pilots was able to engineer in the early ’90s is a toast to the enduring influence and legacy of American music.
Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or-winning second feature, “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” an intimate drama of two friends forced to seek extralegal abortion under Communist rule, played better as a thriller than a message movie. The same curious quality informs Mungiu’s follow-up, “Beyond the Hills,” a gripping depiction of a remote Romanian monastery that similarly falls short of making a statement. Read more...
UCLA Hammer Museum’s most recent exhibit may appear like an abstract, amorphous shape or some unknown alien creature. But this sculpture is more human than one may think. In fact, it is human. Read more...
Photo: The sculpture “Mirage” by UCLA alumna and artist Katie Grinnan consists of multiple casts of Grinnan’s body performing a series of sun salutation yoga poses.
