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.
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Mark Stewart and long-time musical collaborator Heidi Rodewald to kick off UCLA artist residenc
Mark Stewart, better known by his stage name, Stew, compares the tight-knit art scenes in New York and Berlin to the independent one in Los Angeles.
tUnE-yArDs play free concert in Ackerman Grand Ballroom, with In One Wind and Big Tree opening
Today, tUnE-yArDs will be performing in Ackerman Grand Ballroom along with two opening acts, In One Wind and Big Tree, as part of the Campus Events Commission’s free concert series.
Bruin Party Network to provide students attending Escape from Wonderland transportation to festival, other events
On Saturday, Insomniac Events, the promoters responsible for organizing large concerts such as the Electric Daisy Carnival and Tiesto’s College Invasion Tour, will host their first-ever Halloween-themed event, Escape from Wonderland.
Concert pays tribute to Lebanese writer on 80th anniversary of his death
While Powell Library usually provides an atmosphere for students preparing for exams, doing homework or taking naps in between classes, it is also the venue for UCLA’s “Music in the Rotunda” concert series.
_Coast to coast: an exchange of musical culture_
In Spanish, the word “cambalache” means exchange. For the Chicano music group Cambalache, it represents a cultural exchange between Chicanos in the United States and southern Veracruz, Mexico.
A Spin on House Music
When UCLA alumnus Noah Greenwald auditioned for the ethnomusicology program in 2000, he showed up with his electric guitar to perform his three required solo pieces.