While popular dance shows such as “Dancing with the Stars” have helped revive the feisty and flirtatious salsa dance to a hot dance floor genre, few of us actually know the first thing about the Latin art form.
Category Archives: Music
Sound Bite: Janelle Monáe
“I’m just another weirdo, oh better yet, you can call me your hero,” Janelle Monáe sings on her first full-length album, proudly crowning herself R&B’s nerdiest diva with the aesthetic of André 3000-esque social consciousness and sci-fi love metaphors by way of Amerie’s go-go funk and throat singing.
Professor Paul Chihara’s concerto “˜Dances at a Gathering’ crosses musical genres
Take jazz standards from his days working with the Duke Ellington Orchestra on Broadway and combine it with personal cultural influences, quotations from timeless Hollywood film scores, and an undeniable knowledge of classical composition ““ you’ve now got a concerto that lives to please a diverse audience.
Band showcases music and worship at Campus Crusade for Christ’s weekly Real Life meeting
Stepping into Broad Art Center’s auditorium on a Wednesday evening feels like walking into a rock concert.
Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz kicks off the ethnomusicology department’s yearlong celebration of its 50th anniversary
Fifty years ago, UCLA became the first university in the United States to have an independent ethnomusicology department.
Bands will face off at Spring Sing
For the bands competing at this year’s Spring Sing, the definition of a great performance goes well beyond just getting up on stage and playing a song.
Company crew ready to deliver laughs at Spring Sing
Spring Sing, which takes place Friday at Pauley Pavilion, is usually well known for its plethora of musical acts. Yet what holds the show together are the skits and videos in between, which also serve as segues into the next musical performance.