Sharing a passion for chamber music, Jasmine Lau, Luke Santonastaso, Brita Tastad and Jennifer Wu, graduate students at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, were just a group of friends before forming the Lumia String Quartet. Created during winter quarter of this year, the Lumia String Quartet is one of UCLA’s newest chamber groups. […]
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Album Review: ‘Pop Psychology’
With three albums and four years of mainstream success, Neon Trees is still stuck in a stage of immaturity and adolescence. Like the band’s previous albums, “Pop Psychology” is yet another 40-minute long complaint about teenage problems, unrequited love and even more teenage problems. While songs like “Love In the 21st Century” and “Text Me […]
Video Game Orchestra and Choir to give first full-length concert
Tucked away in the corner of Schoenberg Hall, where the stress of rehearsing dynamic orchestral pieces runs high and the zeal for video game music runs even higher, the Video Game Orchestra and Choir at UCLA squeezes about 30 members into the organ room every week. After debuting in the Powell rotunda last fall, the […]