Haylee Hessell never imagined she would practice one song as many times as she has rehearsed her song “Let Him Go” for Spring Sing. She’s practiced the song at least 50 times already. Read more...
Photo: Third-year English student Haylee Hessell has her father to thank for her interest in music. He taught her to play guitar, took her to a Rolling Stones concert and brought her to a Santa Monica guitar shop. (MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)
Isabel Whelan is used to taking stage as part of an ensemble. The third-year communication studies student performed at Spring Sing her freshman year as part of the Delta Gamma and Lambda Chi production and at Coastalong Festival and Dance Marathon this year as a part of Sage St. Read more...
Photo: Third-year communication studies student Isabel Whelan will be performing the ballad “Ms. Hollywood” under the stage name BEL at Spring Sing this year. (Eileen Lising/Daily Bruin)
Hannah Connery drove to Las Vegas to film scenes for a Spring Sing comedy sketch with a 101-degree fever, coughing throughout the 12-hour video shoot. Connery, a third-year theater student, joined the ensemble Company this year because she was allured by the prospect of writing, filming and acting in Spring Sing’s comic relief team. Read more...
Photo: Students Hannah Connery, Nathan Glovinsky and Natalina Cosenza (left to right) will take part in Company’s performance at Spring Sing 2017. The 13-person comedy troupe will perform live sketches and will project prerecorded videos in between the talent acts Friday. Some of the sketches required out-of-state filming in Las Vegas and an animal rental, which defecated everywhere. (Emma Skinner/Daily Bruin)
Rain forced Regina Silva and members of Gamma Phi Beta and Pi Kappa Phi to seek cover underneath a concrete overhang of the J.D. Morgan Center in Bruin Plaza. Read more...
Photo: Twenty-six student members of Gamma Phi Beta and Pi Kappa Phi will perform together at Spring Sing 2017, after auditioning together for the past three years. (Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Daily Bruin)
Music inspires the soul and allows listeners to feel joyful and free, and behind every piece of inspirational music lie a songwriter and a story. Throughout spring quarter, columnist Kaitlyn Peterson will sit down over tea with UCLA singer-songwriters to explore their musical goals, personal inspirations and what makes their songs so special. Read more...
Photo: Munir Griffin and Chris Pree (left to right) will perform as an R&B duo at this year’s Spring Sing. Their song “Deep” is about homesickness and features Pree’s vocals and Griffin on the saxophone. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin staff)
The Los Robles Master Chorale’s Saturday performance will feature the world premieres of three UCLA student compositions. The pieces “America,” “E Novem Punctis Unum” and “Loam” by students Nicholas Carlozzi, Vittorio Russo and William Cabison, respectively, were commissioned in fall 2016 by Lesley Leighton, the artistic director of the Los Robles Master Chorale and a former choral composition instructor at UCLA from 2014 to 2016. Read more...
Photo: Music composition students Nicholas Carlozzi and Vittorio Russo and music student William Cabison (left to right) were commissioned to create compositions for the Los Robles Master Chorale. Their works will be premiered on Saturday at the Church of the Epiphany. (Habeba Mostafa/ Daily Bruin)
In “On the Rise,” the Daily Bruin profiles up-and-coming musicians in Los Angeles. Though our subjects do not necessarily have direct connections with UCLA, they are artists who have brought their sounds to Los Angeles and have taken advantage of opportunities within the city’s thriving music scene. Read more...
Photo: The pop-folk band Peridot is comprised of Hillary Reynolds, Trevor Jarvis and Marton Bisits (left to right). The band released its seven-song EP in 2016. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin)
