Author Archives: Taleen Kalenderian

For directors Joel Juarez Sanchez and Alberto Barboza, both UCLA alumni, box-office success is the last thing on their minds. Their films received numerous awards this summer, including a shared award for Best Short at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. Sanchez’s “Pelea de Gallos” received a Director’s Guild of America award and won […]

Soon enough, Michael Moore won’t be the only talk of the town. As “Fahrenheit 9/11″ trickles off the silver screen, other political documentaries are making their way into smaller movie theaters, and the numbers are growing. “The Yes Men,” which opened on Friday, is one of the many new documentaries. The film features two men […]

While many of this year’s graduates pursue premeditated, well-paying occupations, UCLA voice students look for bread and butter side jobs as they shoot for their passion: a solo singing career. Pursuing a vocal career in opera nowadays is not so different from trying to be the next big pop star, especially with the lack of […]

When today’s music fans make the effort to catch their favorite band live, they often expect a rendition, if not an exact duplication, of the group’s latest album. Sometimes pulling off live what was done in the studio is tricky enough to fulfill the crowd’s eager expectations. But The Mars Volta boldly defied these conventions, […]

Sometimes an energetic performance is the only way to garner attention for cultural issues that are often ignored by the public. Archiving Filipino American Music in Los Angeles and Kayamanan Ng Lahi Philippine Folk Arts present the AFAMILA Festival in the Ethnomusicology Courtyard adjacent to the Schoenberg Music Building this Saturday afternoon to celebrate Pilipino […]

In a bold attempt to revive the spirit of jazz music, the Student Committee for the Arts is launching the third of four performances in its Jazz at the Grand series tonight in the Kerckhoff Grand Salon. The performance will feature virtuoso jazz drummer Winard Harper and his band, the Winard Harper Sextet. The series […]

In an era where rigid classical performance values have been replaced by the “do-it-yourself” and “wing-it” mantras of mainstream music, the music department’s class titled Artsong insists on the importance of traditional performance methods to help music students strengthen their craft. With barely two weeks left to practice for their recital of classical songs for […]