Jacqueline Marshall said she wasn’t playing the music that most interested her at the rise of her professional music career. Though a thriving harpist for orchestral and recorded music, the UCLA alumna said her passions lay in new music. “I found that I had virtually no opportunities to play contemporary music in a chamber setting,” […]
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Q&A: Titus frontman discusses upcoming set, song written for Dance Marathon
After being brought together as a band in 2014 through what Brendan Flavin called a lucky strike with Craigslist ads, Titus has performed in venues from the Roxy Theatre to the Mint to the Viper Room. The rock band’s members, Flavin, Caroline Cirone, Blake Baldwin and Sean Woodman, are preparing for an album release and […]
UCLA EDM club reboots for spring quarter with new vision
The UCLA Electronic Dance Music Club dropped the bass just in time for the onset of spring quarter. After two quarters of inactivity, EDMC rebooted this spring, outfitted with a new logo, new members and a new vision for electronic dance music’s place in UCLA’s campus culture. During its first meeting of the spring quarter, […]
Exhibit to showcase representative collections of graduate student art
Sixteen graduating master of fine arts students will transform the blank white walls and open spaces of the New Wight Gallery at the Broad Art Center with pieces ranging from photography, to drawings, to static objects and models. Split into four separate showcases featuring four artists at a time, the MFA Exhibition series will open […]
UCLA music lecturer, film score composers release CD, ‘Montage’
UCLA music lecturer Gloria Cheng realized she was in the midst of a legendary gathering of musicians. John Williams, Don Davis, Michael Giacchino, Randy Newman and Bruce Broughton huddled around a piano with a slew of sheet music – compositions they had written not for film, but for Cheng herself to perform. Over the course […]
UCLA singer-songwriter jazzes up Irish folk at Fowler debut
Elena Loper said her family first introduced her to Irish folk music when she was just a little girl, and she hasn’t stopped listening since. Irish music has played an integral role in the fourth-year ethnomusicology student’s time at UCLA: Loper studied abroad in Ireland, focused her ethnomusicology thesis on Irish-American music and emigration, and […]
Growth in film adaptations of musicals brings Hollywood, Broadway together
The line between Broadway and Hollywood is thinner than ever, with three movie adaptations of the musicals “Jersey Boys,” “Annie” and “Into the Woods” released just this past year and a number four times that since 2000. Indeed, the American public seems more receptive of filmmakers’ mainstream takes on popular musicals, showing that theater-lovers and […]