The UCLA Camarades will embrace Slavic culture through music and poetry in their upcoming concert “Hope Against Hope.” The string chamber music ensemble will perform at the concert alongside literary presentations by the UCLA Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures on Tuesday. Myroslava Khomik, a violinist in the string ensemble, said […]
Category Archives: Music
Daily Bruin predicts who will win gold at the Grammys
2017 was a year of change in the music world. Though names like Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift held onto their prominence, the world of popular music saw comebacks from Lorde and Kesha, foreign additions with “Despacito” and an embrace of rap with the increased prominence of artists like Kendrick Lamar and Cardi B. And […]
Music professor’s 9/11-inspired composition bags Grammy nomination
Richard Danielpour began his music residency at an isolated retreat for composers the day before 9/11. On the second day of his residency, the UCLA composition professor called his music editor’s office in downtown New York to find out how long he had to finish editing his latest piece, “An American Requiem.” He was met […]
Jazz director discusses work on Grammy-nominated album ‘Let Love Rule’
Daniel Seeff is going for a Grammy for the second year in a row. Seeff, the program director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, contributed to albums that have been nominated for Grammys alongside Beyoncé, Rihanna and Bruno Mars for two years in a row. […]
UCLA Guitar Ensemble bridges Latin American music and art in exhibit
The UCLA Guitar Ensemble will be playing old music in a new setting as part of the Fowler Out Loud series. Members of the ensemble will showcase Latin American music at Fowler Out Loud, a concert series in which UCLA students perform at Fowler Museum. The group’s performance, which will be held Wednesday at 6 […]
Album review: ‘Ruins’
First Aid Kit has put a bandage on a slowly dying genre of music – folk-rock. The Swedish duo, composed of sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg, released “Ruins,” its fourth studio album, Friday. Though not a major stylistic departure, First Aid Kit still gives a strong performance, showcasing the Americana twang that brought the duo […]
Q&A: Piano professor shares how Soviet Union background influences her music
Inna Faliks’ Soviet Union household only had three rooms for seven people and no telephone – but it did have music. Growing up, Faliks’ parents encouraged a creative childhood that included reading books and cultivating interest in music. Now a concert pianist and UCLA professor of piano, Faliks will perform the protest composition “The People […]