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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Alum band Owl Fly South transitions to The End of Summer
All around campus, posted signs say “The End is Coming,” but the self-described modern rock ‘n’ roll band formerly known as Owl Fly South is debuting its new beginning as The End of Summer. Frontman and guitarist Braeden Henderson met drummer Oliver Dobrian and bassist Jake Stein through their first class together at UCLA in […]
Showcase to feature pieces by faculty composers in School of Music
The original version of this article contained multiple errors and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. The instrument is ancient, but the sound is modern: overlapping tracks of sustained notes and slowly repeated musical motifs creating a kind of musical tapestry. These are just some of the sounds of UCLA […]
Album Review: ‘Sheezus’
Five years after her last record “It’s Not Me, It’s You,” Lily Allen offers her listeners new music with her usual sassy lyrics and British accent. In her audaciously named new album “Sheezus,” Allen seeks to become the female equivalent to Kanye West’s “Yeezus” in the realm of pop music and demands that her presence […]
Album Review: ‘I Never Learn’
Someone broke Lykke Li’s heart, and the results are an exquisite, if somewhat monochrome, self-portrait of pain and loneliness. “I Never Learn” is the Swedish singer-songwriter’s third album, the last in her self-described trilogy. The whimsical Li of “Youth Novels” and the edgier sound of “Wounded Rhymes” are gone, replaced by raw pain and the […]
Album Review: ‘Nikki Nack’
The first things you notice are the drums. Frantic, syncopated and groovy, the drums on “Nikki Nack”‘s first single, “Water Fountain,” have one intention, and one intention only: to make you dance. This isn’t a normal dance, however. This is a song that invites listeners to dance offbeat, to embrace their weird sides and to appreciate their […]
World Music and Movement Festival showcases array of cultures
Within the span of six hours, an array of dancers and musicians brought an unlikely mixture of objects to the Bruin Plaza stage. Some performers wore ghungroos – Indian anklets covered with metallic bells – and some wore cowboy hats. Some musicians played fiddles and some played the Chinese erhu,also known as the Chinese violin. […]