A free orchestral concert Thursday will honor the UCLA professor who died in Wednesday’s murder-suicide, musicians said. The music department will dedicate Thursday’s UCLA Philharmonia concert to mechanical and aerospace engineering professor William Klug, who was killed in Wednesday’s murder-suicide on the UCLA campus. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Philharmonia will perform a free concert Thursday. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Beniko Hirosawa-Bates and her son strolled along the cobblestone streets of Hungary, exploring the same roads that 19th-century pianist and composer Franz Liszt walked 150 years prior. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year music history student Beniko Hirosawa-Bates teaches one of 25 spring 2016 Undergraduate Student Initiated Education seminars, “Understanding Franz Liszt, First Rock Star,” which discusses the compositions and life of world-renowned composer and pianist Franz Liszt. (Pinkie Su/Daily Bruin)
Andrew Pietersen spent the morning hiding at Bruin Buzz in Ackerman Union during the UCLA lockdown. In the afternoon after the lockdown was lifted, he grabbed his bagpipes from his apartment and began performing the Scottish instrument on the hill by Janss Steps. Read more...
Photo: Third-year bioengineering student Andrew Pietersen played bagpipes by Janss Steps to cope with the UCLA shooting Wednesday. (Owen Emerson/Assistant photo editor)
All campus events including classes, public concerts and recitals have been canceled for Wednesday, officials announced. Activities will resume Thursday, said Neal Stulberg, co-director of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, in an email statement. Read more...
Photo: Campus events including classes, public concerts and recitals have been canceled for Wednesday, said Neal Stulberg, co-director of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, in an email statement. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Harley Streten had a lot of pressure to establish a definitive voice on his latest album in an era when kids are coming up with fake names and producing their own music on their laptops. Read more...
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Malia Smith and her Uber driver exchanged the usual small talk as the car hurtled east along Sunset Boulevard, away from UCLA. But when her driver mentioned JazzReggae Festival, Smith, a third-year global studies student and the event’s director of marketing, froze at the coincidence. Read more...
Photo: In its 30th anniversary, JazzReggae Festival, put on by the Cultural Affairs Commission, will take place Monday in its original location, the Sunset Canyon Recreation Center. The event was downsized this year due to funding cuts. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Ariana Grande has never been less apologetic than with her most recent album, “Dangerous Woman.” Last July, the tween-pop singer was caught on a bakery’s surveillance camera licking a doughnut she did not buy and then proclaiming “I hate America.” Grande’s words generated massive backlash from people who accused her of shaming overweight Americans. Read more...
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