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1. Musics From Around the World: Southern California Composers in Concert – Christopher Adler (56:25)

Date:
2021-04-07
Main contributors:
Christopher Alder
Summary:
The first event in the World Music Center at UCLA's new virtual series, Musics from Around the World: Southern California Composers in Concert, spotlighting contemporary global music makers throughout the region. The concert, delivered via Zoom, features composer, performer, and improviser Christopher Adler. Adler presents his work with the khaen, the bamboo free-reed mouth organ of Laos and Northeast Thailand, an instrument he has championed for over twenty-five years. He performs traditional and contemporary solos as well as two duos with violinist Batya MacAdam-Somer, including the world premiere of a new adaptation of a piece originally for Chinese instruments. The performance is followed by a presentation by Adler, providing insights into his writing process and composing for the khaen. Adler’s compositions encompass cross-culturally hybrid forms drawn from contemporary concert music and traditional musics of Thailand and Laos, the application of mathematics to composition, and the integration of improvisation into structured composition. He is a foremost performer of traditional and new music for the khaen, establishing it as a concert instrument by commissioning, performing, and recording over thirty new works by thirteen composers from around the world. He is a pianist with Nief-Norf and NOISE, an Affiliated Artist with San Diego New Music, a co-founder of the soundON Festival of Modern Music, Director of Composition for the Nief-Norf Summer Festival, and Professor of Music at the University of San Diego. His work may be heard on Tzadik, Innova, Blue Griffin, Liber Pulveris, pfMENTUM, Rattle, Blue Leaf, Nine Winds, Artship Recordings, Vienna Modern Masters, Centaur, Traditional Crossroads, Circumvention, and Accretion Records. Musics from Around the World: Southern California Composers in Concert is part of the yearlong celebration of the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive's 60th anniversary. Established in 1961, the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is a world-renowned research archive dedicated to the study of musical traditions from around the globe. The series is funded by the Hugo and Christine Davise Fund for Contemporary Music, administered by the UCLA Music Library to support contemporary music in any genre.

2. Musics From Around the World: Southern California Composers in Concert – Daniel Ho (1:01:00)

Date:
2021-06-02
Main contributors:
Daniel Ho
Summary:
Our third concert in the series, delivered via Zoom, features Grammy Award-winner Daniel Ho. Ho is a six-time Grammy Award winner, eleven-time Grammy Award nominee, six-time Taiwanese Golden Melody Award winner, and recipient of multiple Hawaiian Music awards. He is an ‘ukulele virtuoso, slack key guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, singer-songwriter, producer, audio engineer, and record company owner. Daniel’s collaborations transcend genres – from Hawaiian Regional Roots, to World Music with Taiwanese aboriginals and Mongolian nomads, to duets with Pepe Romero the maestro of classical guitar, to jazz and rock with Tak Matsumoto of the Japanese supergroup B’z. As an artist and clinician, Daniel performs throughout the US and internationally. In infinite pursuit of new musical adventures, he is the designer of the Romero Creations Tiny Tenor ‘ukulele, and the Ohana Bongolele and Shakerlele. His custom-designed six-string ‘ukulele is on exhibit at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. His most recent foray into performance includes acting and singing in the semi-autobiographical musical "Pineapple Mango." A productive outcome from the pandemic: Daniel’s newfound passion for filming and video editing has added a new dimension to his artistry. Musics from Around the World: Southern California Composers in Concert is part of the yearlong celebration of the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive's 60th anniversary. Established in 1961, the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is a world-renowned research archive dedicated to the study of musical traditions from around the globe. Co-presented by the UCLA Library, Musics from Around the World: Southern California Composers in Concert is and funded by the UCLA Library's Hugo and Christine Davise Fund for Contemporary Music; the fund is administered by the UCLA Music Library to support contemporary music in any genre.

3. Musics From Around the World: Southern California Composers in Concert – Reena Esmail (56:40)

Date:
2021-05-05
Main contributors:
Reena Esmail
Summary:
The second event in the World Music Center at UCLA's virtual series, Musics from Around the World: Southern California Composers in Concert, spotlights contemporary global music makers throughout the region. The concert, delivered via Zoom, features composer and performer Reena Esmail. Esmail works between the worlds of Indian and Western classical music, to bring communities together through the creation of equitable musical spaces. Esmail holds degrees from The Juilliard School and the Yale School of Music. A resident of Los Angeles, Esmail is the 2020-23 Swan Family Artist in Residence with Los Angeles Master Chorale, and the 2020-21 Composer in Residence with Seattle Symphony. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Board of New Music USA, and Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Shastra, a non-profit organization that promotes cross-cultural music connecting musical traditions of India and the West. Musics from Around the World: Southern California Composers in Concert is part of the yearlong celebration of the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive's 60th anniversary. Established in 1961, the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is a world-renowned research archive dedicated to the study of musical traditions from around the globe.The series is funded by the Hugo and Christine Davise Fund for Contemporary Music, administered by the UCLA Music Library to support contemporary music in any genre.

4. Sounds Fair to Me! The Copyright Game Show (1:08:57)

Date:
2021-02-18
Summary:
Sounds Fair to Me! was recorded in front of a live studio audience in February 2020. Copyright Experts: Judith Finell, Music Industry Professor, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Robert Fisk, Music Industry Program Chair, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, David Nimmer, UCLA Law Professor and author of Nimmer on Copyright. Your Host, Martin J. Brennan. UCLA Library Production Team: Salma Abumeeiz, Ben Alkaly, Christopher Brennan, Chris Hightower, Simon Lee, Suzy Lee, Alison Scott, Hannah Sutherland, Matthew Vest. MMA Consultant: Kyra Folk-Farber, UC Santa Barbara. Videographer: Robert Macaisa. Disc Jockey: Matthew Gilbert. Made possible by the UCLA Music Library and generous support from Julie and Joseph Kwan. © 2020 UC Regents. This video is available for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.