UCLA student Yuki Akaishi aims to strike a chord in her Fowler Out Loud concert

Yuki Akaishi, a fourth-year ethnomusicology student, said she began her academic career at UCLA four years ago believing that she would one day become a doctor or surgeon. This plan never came to fruition because of a love for music, a feeling she said was stronger than anything she had ever felt for science.

UCLA Philharmonia, led by Neal Stulberg, opens the season with Shakespeare-inspired performance, “Orchestral Music from Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17″

The domino effect that has befallen the world of classical music conductors started when James Levine, music director of the Metropolitan Opera, damaged a vertebra last month.

Rising LA bands The Soft Pack, Hanni El Khatib to perform in Hammer Museum’s summer concert series, “˜Also I Like to Rock’

The normally still walls of the Hammer Museum will come to life this Thursday as they capture the sounds and spirit of independent music in Los Angeles.

Local acts The Soft Pack and Hanni El Khatib will play in the Hammer Museum courtyard as part of the summer concert series “Also I Like to Rock,” presented by KCRW 89.9 FM and the Hammer Museum.