A&E Briefs

  UCLA Performing Arts Nobel Prize-winning poet
Seamus Heaney will speak at UCLA’s Royce Hall on
Thursday at 8 p.m.

Seamus Heaney at Royce

UCLA Performing Arts will bring poet Seamus Heaney to Royce Hall
on Thursday, April 19 at 8 p.m.

Winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the
recent best-selling translation of “Beowulf,” Heaney
has become one of the most well-known English-language poets
today.

For ticket information, contact the Central Ticket Office at
(310) 825-2101.

Musicians from Marlboro

UCLA Performing Arts will host “Musicians from
Marlboro” at Schoenberg Hall on Sunday, April 22 at

4 p.m.

“Musicians from Marlboro” is a performance featuring
favorite musicians from Vermont’s renowned Marlboro Music
Festival. Included in the show will be pianist Jonathan Biss, a
second generation Marlboro Musician who, at age 20, just made his
debut with the New York Philharmonic.

The show is preceded by a Center Stage Discussion with the
artists at 3 p.m. The program will feature Mozart’s
“Piano Trio in B-flat Major, K. 502,” Hindemith’s
“String Trio No. 2,” and Brahms’ “Trio in
E-flat Major for Piano, Violin and Horn, Op. 40.”

For ticket information, contact the Central Ticket Office at
(310) 825-2101.

WAC dance concert

Regent’s Lecturer William Forsythe will dance in the World
Arts and Cultures Department’s “Artist Alphabets:
Dancing is Collaborative” on Wednesday, April 18 at 3:30 p.m.
at Glorya Kaufman Hall, Theater 200.

Forsythe is a world-renowned choreographer and dancer, whose
work covers such diverse fields as dance, improvisation
technologies, opera, theater and film. This free concert is open to
the public.

For more information, contact the world arts and cultures
department at (310) 825-3951.

Faculty recital

The music department faculty will present the Elgart/Gates
guitar duo on Friday, April 20 at 8 p.m. at the Jan Popper Theater
in Schoenberg Hall.

The Elgart/Yates Guitar duo was founded in 1975 by UCLA music
faculty member Peter Yates and UCLA alumnus Matthew Elgart. The duo
will perform classic pieces by Tchaikovsky and Bach, as well as
original music written for the duo. For ticket information contact
the Central Ticket Office at (310) 825-2101.

M.F.A. Upstart Series begins

World arts and cultures MFA student Rebecca Bryant will perform
a dance concert on Friday, April 20 at 8 p.m. at Kaufman Hall,
Theater 200.

Bryant’s concert is part of the department of world arts
and cultures’ M.F.A. Upstarts Series “We Have Been
Given Orders Not to Move.”

For ticket information, contact the Central Ticket Office at
(310) 825-2101.

Senior music recitals

The department of music will present recitals by senior music
majors on Friday, April 20 and Sunday, April 22 in Schoenberg
Hall’s Jan Popper Theater.

David Moyer will play the saxophone at 2 p.m. on April 20; Hami
Jin will play the flute at 5 p.m. on April 20; Dylan King will play
the tuba at 8 p.m. on April 22; and Jordan Gumicio will sing at 5
p.m. on April 22.

For more information contact the music department at (310)
825-4761.

Briefs compiled by Michael Rosen-Molina, Daily Bruin Senior
Staff.

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