UCLA faculty, staff and alumni have contributed musical works that are nominated for the 59th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 12. Their talents, ranging from playing the saxophone to composing songs to performing in an opera, have been recognized with nominations in five different categories. Read more...
Photo: Jazz lecturer Justo Almario played saxophone on composer John Beasley’s album, which is nominated for a Grammy for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album. (Chengcheng Zhang/Daily Bruin)
UCLA faculty, staff and alumni have contributed musical works that are nominated for the 59th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 12. Their talents, ranging from playing the saxophone to composing songs to performing in an opera, have been recognized with nominations in five different categories. Read more...
Photo: Joshua Guerrero took classes at UCLA after his operatic talent was discovered. He performed as Count Almaviva for the Los Angeles Opera’s production of “The Ghosts of Versailles,” which is nominated for two Grammy Awards. (Courtesy of Gabriel Guzman).
Anna Kouchnerov walked with her grandfather on a cobblestone road in Ukraine, watching traders, peddlers and Gypsies and hearing a medley of music from the sides of the pathway. Read more...
Photo: UCLA’s Balkan Ensemble played at the Fowler Museum on Wednesday as part of the Fowler Out Loud series. The group meets in Ethnomusicology 161C: “Advanced World Music Performance Organizations: Music and Dance of Balkans” taught by professors Tzevntanka Varimezov and Ivan Varimezov. (Hannah Johnson/Daily Bruin)
Daily Bruin Radio reporter Alana Mouchard met with Anna Kouchnerov, a fourth-year music performance student. Anna has used her time at UCLA to study classical violin at the Herb Alpert School of Music. Read more...
Photo: (Hannah Johnson/Daily Bruin)
Nathan Kersey-Wilson and his roommates hosted open mic concerts from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. from the second floor of their apartment “Treehouse” in 2013. On Strathmore Drive, students and bands performed using a variety of instruments, including Middle Eastern ouds, Persian hand drums and classical violins as crowds danced into the night. Read more...
Photo: Ethnomusicology alumnus Nathan Kersey-Wilson plays saxophone, piano, flute, bass and guitar. His collaborators described him as having a carefree attitude in life, whether it’s performing in a pirate outfit or climbing trees before gigs. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
It’s a bit difficult to relate precisely to the nostalgia-soaked depiction of middle age that The Menzingers presents on its latest album “After the Party” as a 20-something – after all, the party of my twenties hasn’t ended yet. Read more...
Photo: Pennsylvania-based punk rock band The Menzingers released its fifth studio album “After the Party” on Friday. (Epitaph Records)
UCLA officials appointed a founding dean for the Herb Alpert School of Music on Friday, ending the national search for the leader of the first autonomous music school in the University of California. Read more...
Photo: Judith Smith, interim dean of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music since January 2016, was named the dean of the school on Friday. UCLA’s music school is the first autonomous music school in the University of California, and Smith will be its first dean as of March 1. (UCLA Newsroom)
