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2018-04-24 23:14:00
John Malveaux: UCLA Newsroom: After hearing Duke Ellington, some UCLA students asked if he would play a free concert in Royce Hall
John Malveaux of www.MusicUNTOLD.com writes of this article from the UCLA Newsletter: "After hearing Duke Ellington play at a local club in 1937, some UCLA students asked the band leader if he would play a free concert in Royce Hall. “I’ve been waiting for someone to ask us!” Ellington reportedly answered. On the day of the big concert, Ellington mixed up the venues and drove to USC instead. He eventually did get to UCLA and delighted the crowd for more than four hours. Ellington is immortalized by sculptor Robert Graham outside the Schoenberg Music Building." On April 22, 2018, I visited Schoenberg Hall to celebrate the music of UCLA professor James Newton. Before the concert, I had some difficulty locating the sculpture due to distance from Schoenberg Hall, its height, and partial obstruction by trees. See pics.
2018-04-14 00:56:00
John Malveaux: UCLA.edu: Concert celebrates award-winning UCLA composer and flute virtuoso James Newton for his 65th birthday
[…] studies at UCLA. Newton has written more than 300 compositions during the course of his illustrious career. Performed worldwide from Carnegie Hall to the Berlin National Gallery, Newton’s work encompasses chamber, symphonic, jazz, world and electronic music genres, as well as compositions for ballet and modern dance. The “Amazing Grace: James Newton at 65” concert, which is free, will be held on Sunday, April 22, at 6 p.m. in Schoenberg Hall and features the Southeast Symphony, the longest continuously performing primarily African-American orchestra in the world, conducted by Anthony Parnther. Soprano Holly Sedillos, Grammy Award-winning UCLA pianist Gloria Cheng, bassist Eric Shetzen, horn soloist Dylan Skye Hart, and the Lyris Quartet round out the roster. “If there are recurrent themes in the concert, they will first and foremost reflect my faith, which infuses my artistic life as a composer […]
2018-01-04 22:42:53
Robert Mann, left front, at his last Los Angeles performance with the Juilliard String Quartet, on Jan. 25, 1997, in Schoenberg Hall at UCLA. Robert Mann, left front, at his last Los Angeles performance with the Juilliard String Quartet, on Jan. 25, 1997, in Schoenberg Hall at UCLA.
2015-06-22 20:17:00
I remember in college walking down the hallways of UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall and hearing the ethnomusicology majors practicing their bizarre semi-tones. These “notes in between the notes” left me fascinated and a little unsettled. I preferred my more easily digested 12-tone scales, based comfortably around middle-A being tuned to the frequency of 440hz. But according to an interesting article in The Daily Beast , it turns out that’s a relatively recent standardization of Western music, and – according to musical conspiracy theories (yes, there really is such a thing ) – was propagated by the Nazis in order to move people towards “greater aggression, psycho social agitation, and emotional distress predisposing people to physical illness.” Whaaaaa!? “According to true believers, music would generate positive healing energy if A were tuned to 432 Hz. This tuning, they claim, is more aligned with the cosmos and the natural world. ‘The number […]
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