The 12th movement of “Carmina Burana” tells the story of a once-beautiful swan being roasted on a spit. As the swan gets closer to being fully cooked, the movement progresses in speed and provides a fun and challenging test for choir students, said Lesley Leighton, a choral director at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of […]
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Album Review: ‘untitled unmastered.’
If Kendrick Lamar’s leftover music were leftover food, it could be sold at the finest restaurant in Los Angeles. Reservations would be fully booked for five years because of the exceptional quality of everything he produces. Lamar surprised fans Thursday night by releasing “untitled unmastered.,” a collection of leftover songs from the “To Pimp a […]
Sounds of Schoenberg: The Chinese dizi
Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. This week, we highlight the Chinese “dizi,” a bamboo flute. Rose Boomsma sat in a music room in Schoenberg Hall with her […]
Surgeons find haven from hospital by performing in indie rock band
Four surgeons changed out of their scrubs, stashed away their surgical tools and plugged in their electric guitars when the workday ended at night. Plastic surgeons Jason Roostaeian, Robert Kang and Phuong Nguyen and oral surgeon Solomon Poyourow are equally at home working beneath operating room lights and in front of stage lights. In 2011, […]
Album Review: ‘I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it’
“I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it” – perhaps one of the lengthiest album titles and longest running times in recent memory – somehow still leaves the listener wishing for more. The release of The 1975’s sophomore album has been incessantly hyped ever since lead singer […]
Love | Hate: Do DJ shoutouts build hype or are they a tired stereotype?
It seems as if every song flooding radio airwaves and streaming services has an air horn intro and a DJ name drop. Though the act was once synonymous with hip-hop mixtapes, the prevalence of DJ shoutouts seems to grow with each new album release. Phrases like “Mike Will Made It” and “We got London on […]
Hip Hop Explosion concert backfires with technical difficulties
Hip Hop Explosion would have been a medley of incomprehensible noise without Isaiah Rashad. Students bounded up the steep, low-lit staircase leading to Ackerman Grand Ballroom, chatting about how excited they were to hear hip-hop performers Rashad and Casey Veggies at the Cultural Affairs Commission’s Hip Hop Explosion concert event Thursday. The bass of the […]