The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Announces Fall 2019 Season

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music will present more than a dozen performances this quarter by world-class student ensembles and special guest artists, as well as masterclasses and symposia featuring leading scholars in their fields. Among the events are the world premiere of "Juana," presented by Opera UCLA and selected by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best concerts for classical music lovers this year; a Jazzical Celebration for Professor Emeritus Gary Gray; UCLA Philharmonia's season-opening concert featuring Igor Stravinsky's "Fireworks," Opus 3; the annual UCLA Big Band Concert; a program honoring the life and works of Hermann Leopoldi, one of the pre-eminent composers of early jazz-influenced Viennese cabaret music, and the UCLA World Music Center's celebration of the digitization of 60 of the Ethnomusicology Archive's major field collections. Scholarly topics and symposia include, You Imagine Me and I Exist, a dramatic prequel to the world premiere of "Juana," Bake Restudy Continues: Muslims and Music in Malabar, Improvising Across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument, and Ecoperformativity in the Song, Music, and Dance Tradition of Malaysia, among others. Guest artists and scholars on the fall season include acclaimed composer and jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, a 2019 UC regents lecturer at UCLA; jazz vocalist and artist-in-residence Fay Victor; record collector Ian Nagoski; renowned ethnomusicologist Anthony Seeger; world-class soloist and saxophonist Chris Potter; Los Angeles-based percussionist Brian Kilgore; and Oslo-based musicologist Kyle Devine.