After 40 years of struggling with budget cuts, funding deficiencies and economic crises, the Academic Advancement Program at UCLA is still standing. Read more...
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Director Bobby Rodriguez’s UCLA LatinJazz Big Band will perform at the AAP performance this weekend, celebrating the program’s 40th anniversary. The show will also feature the UCLA student Folkorico Dancers.
Blaring lights, a screaming audience of 7,000 and a stage bigger than most imagine: The chance to perform in such circumstances rarely presents itself even for some of the most talented singers and a cappella groups at UCLA. But with Spring Sing fast approaching, Signature A Cappella, Bruin Harmony and Random Voices must prepare to take on such a stage. Read more...
From the Grammy Museum and the Roxy Theatre to high school auditoriums and living room spaces, this year's Spring Sing soloists and duos have performed just about everywhere. But for many, this will be their first time on the stage of the Los Angeles Tennis Center. Read more...
A 5-year-old sits down at his grandmother's piano. He begins to improvise, moving his fingers over the keys. He has never played before, but it is as if he already knows what to do. From that moment on, he is hooked. He enrolls in lessons and at age 12, his instructor tells him he is old enough to reach the pedals of an organ. Read more...
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Cristoph Bull
This year's Spring Sing competition will give the stage to bands whose styles and influences include post-hardcore, folk, jazz, blues, rock and opera, reflecting the diverse range of music of the Los Angeles music scene. Read more...
Over the last 75 years, the name UCLA Live has evolved from the Department of Fine Arts Productions to UCLA Presents to UCLA of Performing Arts to UCLA Live as of 10 years ago. Come May 22, the name shall transform once again and become the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. Read more...
Scattered, chaotic drum beats echoed around the courtyard as 20 high school students tried out their first percussion sets. By the end of the quarter, however, this incoherent clamor became cohesive rhythms as SLAM! volunteers watched their students transform into musicians right before their eyes "“ and ears. Read more...
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UCLA’s SLAM!, or Student Leader Advocates of Music, is holding its quarterly concert on Thursday evening in Kerckhoff Hall at the Charles E. Young Grand Salon. Mind the Gap will be the headlining band for the show.
