Author Archives: Natalie Tate

With the rise in popularity of services such as TiVo and Netflix, it’s safe to say that many Americans center their lives around the expedited and convenient use of media, especially television. For years, musical and performance artists have often lamented this trend, mainly because they worry that the members of a television-based culture inevitably […]

By convention, most music fans would not directly associate the guitar with the world of classical music. After all, it would be difficult to imagine a collaboration between guitar legend Eric Clapton and equally renowned classical musicians such as Itzhak Perlman or Yo-Yo Ma. Yet in reality, classical composers dating back to the time of […]

On any given day, some UCLA students will gripe about the endless amounts of reading and papers assigned to them by their professors. But then again, most of these assignments do not include a mandatory viewing of the Grammy Awards or selecting two articles to read from Billboard magazine on a weekly basis. At least […]

On the cover of her debut album “Trouble,” singer-songwriter Bonnie McKee stares saucily into the camera, blowing a large bubble out of gum. With all of the negative connotations surrounding the “bubblegum” pop world following the now defunct boy-band craze of *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys, most musicians would cringe to associate themselves with such an […]

For unconventional classical music ensemble Bang on a Can, the context of the works it selects to perform holds nearly the same importance as the quality of the works themselves. And consistently, this context involves rebellion and bold experimentation. “We want to find works where the composers wake up in the morning and think, “˜How […]

Nearly all UCLA students are aware of the good-natured rivalry between North Campus and South Campus. It essentially comes down to the world of humanities and the arts versus the world of the sciences and mathematics. Although students recognize the differences between the two, few realize that these worlds collide daily at a precise point […]

Sometimes the particular musical tastes of a region cause considerable variability to a band’s success. Although a band will rarely alter the material on its albums significantly between releases in the United States and the United Kingdom, inherent cultural disparities can make up the difference. Take the UK rock veterans Marillion, for instance. Having played […]