- Date:
- 2024-04-12
- Main contributors:
- Anne LeBaron
- Summary:
- Internationally acclaimed composer and harpist Anne LeBaron marks her illustrious tenure at CalArts with a retrospective concert at UCLA’s Lani Hall, on February 7, 2024. The program encapsulates four decades of pioneering music. The evening unfolds around LeBaron’s lifelong passions, weaving a tapestry of music with drama, environmental advocacy, sounds and stories from around the world, the recognition of women’s achievements, and the spirit of artistic collaboration. This much-anticipated event features world premieres alongside rarely performed works. 00:00 - Noh Reflections The Heroine with a Thousand Faces (piano) 8:58 - Memphis Minnie 12:07 - Marilyn Monroe 13:09 - Abby Wambach The Heroine with a Thousand Faces (soprano and alto saxophone) 17:00 - Leymah Gbowee 20:32 - Julieta Dobles (her poem that inspired the musical portrait: https://poems.poetrybay.com/2022-2023...) 25:40 - Ruth Bader Ginsberg 29:55 - Mary Helen MacKillop 33:25 - Susan B. Anthony Two Kazak Songs 36:20 - Black of My Eye 41:06 - I am a Kazakh 45:40 - Elegy (from Pope Joan) 50:55 - Infrathin IV 1:03:10 – Anne LeBaron, remarks 1:05:54 - Inner Voice (2nd half of the piece due to technical issues) 1:14:49 - Green Card (from Croak - The Last Frog) 1:21:20 – Panel discussion (Nina Eidsheim, Anne LeBaron, Nancy Perloff, Matthew Vest, Jan Berry Baker) Performers: Adrianne Pope, violin; Carson Rick, viola; Mia Barcia-Colombo, cello; Elizabeth Setzer, piano; Jan Berry Baker, soprano and alto saxophone; Timur Bekbosunov, tenor; Maria Elena Altany, soprano; Miller Wrenn, contrabass; Anne LeBaron, harp. "The Heroine with a Thousand Faces," a prodigious new multi-year endeavor aiming to create one thousand musical portraits, launches with five original solos for saxophone, honoring women whose momentous contributions have reshaped our history. The prestigious Davise Fund facilitates these tributes by commissioning musical homages to figures such as Australian Saint Mary Helen Mackillop, Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee, and the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Extraordinary saxophonist Jan Berry Baker presents world premieres of five such portraits, composed expressly for her. Three additional solos for piano are performed by Elizabeth Setzer. Accompanied by a string trio, Maria Elena Altany embodies the mythic Pope Joan in "Elegy.” The string trio opens the concert with the dazzling second movement of "Noh Reflections," rooted in the sounds of Japanese Noh drama. The concert features the premiere of "Two Kazakh Songs," composed for Timur Bekbosunov as part of the large-scale “Silent Steppe Cantata.” Next, an ensemble improvisation led by LeBaron interprets a graphic score inspired by Marcel Duchamp, "Infrathin IV," illustrating her significant influence on experimental harp performance techniques. Describing her 2-CD recording, “1, 2, 4, 3”, The New York City Jazz Record writes, “The artist inhabits her massive instrument as if it were a continent; she fords its rivers of strings and discovers new worlds in the crevices of tonality… nervous and hoarse and brilliant. LeBaron is a true “stratigrapher” in her layering of material, where new vistas seem to unfold endlessly behind others.” "Inner Voice," for bass and fixed audio media, conjures voices from the earth's deep recesses. The evening culminates with Bekbosunov returning to the stage in a hilarious rendition of “Green Card” from LeBaron’s opera, “Croak – The Last Frog.” Goliath, a waiter-frog toiling at the Herp Haven Hotel in Vegas, seeks a green card to help him pursue Cassie, his love interest, who eventually becomes the last living frog on earth.
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- Date:
- 2022-04-04
- Main contributors:
- Derrick Skye, Yvette Holzwarth, Anna Kouchnerov, Philip Graulty, Dimitris Mahlis, Mark Gutierrez, James Waterman, Kim Nguyen Tran, Mehrenegar Rostami, Bridge to Everywhere, Cultures in Musical Dialogue
- Summary:
- Bridge to Everywhere musicians and composers Derrick Skye and James Waterman lead a workshop sharing effective strategies and approaches in collaborations involving diverse musical traditions, including Hindustani rhythmic structures and melodic frameworks, Ghanaian polyrhythms, Balkan Folk music, and Western classical music. UCLA students are invited to play these compositions during the workshop and to join Bridge to Everywhere during the concert. Organized by Kim Nguyen Tran, UCLA Ethnomusicology faculty, in collaboration with Mehrenegar Rostami, director of "Cultures in Musical Dialogue." Bridge to Everywhere is a Los Angeles-based chamber ensemble and nonprofit arts organization dedicated to supporting composers, performers, and educators who celebrate cultural diversity through interwoven musical traditions. Through collaborations, performances, and education programs, the organization strives to build bridges between instruments, genres, cultures, and people. Program Improvisation, Cultures in Musical Dialogue Ensemble Hum (2019), Derrick Skye Inverness (2019), James Waterman Sketches for Two Violins (2019), Anna Kouchnerov Interplanetary Kisses (2015), Dimitris Mahlis Mijo (2021), Philip Graulty Abacus (2019), James Waterman Recorded March 10, 2022, 6 PM Ostin Ensemble Room
- Date:
- 2019
- Main contributors:
- Chon A. Noriega, Juan Antonio Cuellar, Tom Diamant, Agustin Gurza, Lisa McAulay, Maureen Russell, Allison Benedetti, Cesar Favila, Steven Loza, Veronica Pacheco, Yuri Shimoda, Matthew Vest, UCLA Digital Library, Arhoolie Foundation
- Summary:
- Organized by the UCLA Music Library, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, and the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. With support from the Office of Interdisciplinary and Cross Cultural Affairs and the UCLA Center for Latino Arts. The Frontera Collection is a joint project of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, the Arhoolie Foundation, and the UCLA Digital Library. About the Exhibition - Sonidos de la Frontera: Music across Borders and Time. Utilizing materials from over a dozen of the Chicano Studies Research Center’s archival collections, the exhibition offers a gateway to the Strachwitz Frontera Collection’s vast and invaluable holdings. The exhibition was on view outside the UCLA Music Library through summer 2019. The Exhibition was curated by Doug Johnson, organized by Xaviera Flores and Matthew Vest, and supported by the UCLA Music Library and the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. Yuri Shimoda developed the digital exhibit and design, Nick Carlozzi contributed to the exhibit case installation and digital editing, Doug Daniels managed the exhibit materials printing, and Jonathan Wilson configured the listening station.
4. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Date:
- 2022-04-01
- Main contributors:
- Yunpeng Zhao, Léo Marillier, Franck Chevalier, Pierre Morlet, Pedro Osuna, Madeline Barrett, Celina Anna Kintscher, Alex Barsom, Carlos Duran, Robby Good, Sydney Wang, Qiren Lu
- Summary:
- Acclaimed French string quartet Quatuor Diotima caps off their 4-part residency at UCLA with a final performance of compositions written specifically for the ensemble by UCLA composition students. Quatuor Diotima, one of the most in-demand chamber ensembles in the world today, is recognized worldwide for interdisciplinary collaborations that shine a new light on both masterpieces of the quartet canon and contemporary additions to the genre. Program: Three Miniatures for String Quartet (2021), Pedro Osuna I. Fiddler II. Tarantella III. Celebration Cherry Blossom (2021), Madeline Barrett Arcana Imperii (2021), Celina Anna Kintscher Premonition (2021, rev. 2022), Alex Barsom Hands, tied (2020, rev. 2021), Carlos Duran one is two is one (2020), Robby Good Golden Hour (2021), Sydney Wang Three Studies for String Quartet (2021), Qiren Lu I. II. III. Recorded Sunday, 6 March 2022, 12:00 pm Ostin Ensemble Room
- Date:
- 2023-12-01
- Main contributors:
- Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance Ensemble , Alden Hellmuth, Sasha Ripley, Yakiv Tsvietinskyi, Destiny Diggs, Ebs Daramola
- Summary:
- Jam Session with the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance December 1, 2023 UCLA Music Library Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance Ensemble at UCLA Class of 2025: Alden Hellmuth, alto sax Sasha Ripley, tenor sax Yakiv Tsvietinskyi, trumpet Miles Lennox, piano Destiny Diggs, bass Ebs Daramola, drums
- 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.