As the James Bridges Theater opens its doors Wednesday for this fall’s public screenings, patrons will experience the luxuries of a massive renovation project that brought the theater’s sound system up to the standards of a state-of-the-art movie theater. The project, which took 18 months of planning, was the theater’s first major renovation since 1976. […]
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UCLA Live: Moving in a new direction
Hal Willner, UCLA Live’s 2003-2004 Artist in Residence, treats the multi-artist compilation a lot more seriously than most others. After all, while many of the generic multi-artist discs you see scattered in bargain bins are little more than shameless cash-in attempts, for Willner, the medium is an attempt to explore the unexplored. Pop idioms and […]
Music department reduces library hours, some electives may be cut
Jon Robertson, chair of the music department for 10 years, is having a serious case of déjà vu. The departmental cuts he has had to make as a result of California’s ailing economy have been all-too-familiar. “My first year as chairman, we had severe cuts,” Robertson recalled from his Schoenberg Hall office. It’s the Tuesday […]
It’s punk rock, it’s house, it’s Junior Senior
Leave it to an exuberant Danish duo to put radio programmers and other media types into a tizzy of cultural confusion. Ever since Junior Senior’s party vibes made its U.S. debut this summer, it’s been labeled as rock, dance, punk, funk and even house. And before setting out on a U.S. tour with Electric Six, […]
Musicians, faculty jazz it up at fundraising concert Sunday
It’s hard to deny the history behind the artists that were honored at the Friends of Jazz tribute and luncheon concert Sunday at the Faculty Center. Honorees such as Tony Bennett, Clark Terry and Louie Bellson couldn’t help but trade their memories of each other and of past friends such as Duke Ellington and Benny […]
Online: “Magnolia” singer/songwriter an abnormally normal talent
At the Verizon Music Festival’s first event on July 24 the stage was set ““ literally ““ for a night of comic irony. After all, what stranger way to kick-off a festival sponsored and named after a corporate behemoth than with a performance by Aimee Mann, who’s possibly made more headlines for her solitary battle […]
“Magnolia” singer/songwriter an abnormally normal talent
At the Verizon Music Festival’s first event on July 24 the stage was set ““ literally ““ for a night of comic irony. After all, what stranger way to kick-off a festival sponsored and named after a corporate behemoth than with a performance by Aimee Mann, who’s possibly made more headlines for her solitary battle […]