L.A. Guitar Quartet will perform at Royce
Hall
The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, an instrumental ensemble whose
recent self-titled release debuted in the top 15 of the Billboard
Classical-Crossover charts and remained there for six months, will
perform at 8 p.m. Thursday at Royce Hall.
Presented by UCLA Performing Arts, the LAGQ is on tour in the
United States and has performed internationally in Montreal,
Munich, Berlin, Paris and Japan.
Quartet members John Dearman, William Kanengiser, Scott Tennant
and Andrew York, will perform works composed and arranged by
themselves, as well as works by Carlos Rivera and Raimundo
Pinaforte.
A CenterStage discussion will be held with the artists and Ian
Krouse, vice-chairman of the UCLA Department of Music, at 7
p.m.
Tickets to see the LAGQ are $30, $22, $15 and $10 (for full-time
UCLA students with valid I.D.). For tickets and information, call
the Central Ticket Office at (310) 825-2101.
Artists take part in electronic media talk
The UCLA Department of Design will feature an electronic media
discussion with artists, Margot Lovejoy and Sara Roberts, at 6 p.m.
Monday at the Dickson Art Center.
Lovejoy, a professor of visual arts at the State University of
New York at Purchase, is the author of “Postmodern Currents:
Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media.” She will
discuss her multimedia project installations and their connections
with sculpture and the cinematic.
Roberts is professor of composition and new media at Integrated
Media, California Institute of the Arts.
The lecture will take place in the EDA (environmental digital
arts) space in the Dickson Art Center. For live Web cam coverage of
the lectures, visit the department Web site at www.design.ucla.edu. For more
information, call the department at (310) 825-9007.
Award-winning author appears at museum
Susan Mitchell, author of “The Water Inside the
Water” and “Rapture,” will read and discuss her
work at the Hammer Museum’s reading at 7 p.m. tonight.
Mitchell has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a fellowship from
the National Endowment for the Arts and a Lannan Foundation Award.
With “Rapture,” she was a National Book Award finalist
and won the Kingley Tufts Award.
The reading is free. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve
basis. The UCLA Hammer Museum is located at 10899 Wilshire Blvd.
For information, call the Museum at (310) 443-7000.
All-Latino play comes to Kerckhoff Hall
Latinos United in Culture, History and Art will present
“Tonantzin,” a tragicomedy that marks their first and
only all-Latino theatrical production at UCLA this year, this
weekend at Kerckhoff Hall.
The play, which delves into the relationships between men,
women, religion and politics, is written and directed by UCLA
M.F.A. student Adelina Anthony and features UCLA actors Bernardo
Badillo, Tonantzin Esparza and Miguel Angel Naranjo.
The play tells the story of a Spanish woman and an Indian girl
who change their personal histories and struggle with betrayal and
emotions in the backdrop of Spanish colonization of the
Americas.
“Tonantzin” will be held at 8 p.m. on May 13, 14 and
15 at the Charles Young Grand Salon in Kerckhoff. Admission is free
but reservations are required. For reservations, call (323)
851-4961 or e-mail uclalucha@juno.com.
Author speaks about history of Los Angeles
Michael Rochlin, author of “Ancient L.A.,” will
discuss his book at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Book Soup, 8818 Sunset
Blvd., West Hollywood.
“Ancient L.A.” which consists of old photographs,
text and discussions of the city’s history, explores the
structure of life in Los Angeles.
For information, call Book Soup at (310) 659-3110.
Briefs compiled by Sharon Hori, Daily Bruin Senior Staff.