music

On the UCLA campus, a conference, a film series and a new opera commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

Love of punk music and a passion for activism inspire a UCLA musicology professor who studies the nuclear legacy of the Marshall Islands and plays guitar in a band.

Su Yin Mak, an internationally known music theorist and a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, has joined the UCLA music department as a visiting scholar.

Magnetic media, which are deteriorating, make up half of the holdings in archive. To save the most significant materials that are relevant to California the archive has begun posting them online.

Kal Raustiala writes in an op-ed that the jury was incorrect and that copyright law is intended to create incentives for artists to produce new creative works, not ensure basic fairness.

These old songs in UCLA’s Sheet Music Collection show that love songs aren’t what they used to be.

UCLA Musicology will open the floodgates of Bruin faculty and student musical talent Thursday, Jan. 29 with “UCLA Sings!” The free concert launches a two-day conference.

Using a series of weekly 30-minute concerts held in various campus locations, Mindful Music, a community project that features some of UCLA’s most talented music students, aims to shed light on how music impacts personal stress levels.

Some of the world’s most talented, up-and-coming young jazz musicians call UCLA home as students and fellows of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance.

Jens Lindemann, professor of trumpet at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music was named to the Order of Canada for his skill as a world-renowned trumpet soloist.

The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture offers more than 150 public events for winter 2015.

The new music building on campus is alive with the sounds of students learning, practicing, studying and socializing. UCLA video.

'Sounds of the Season' will be presented by the UCLA choral program on Saturday, Dec. 13, 8 p.m., at Schoenberg Hall.

UCLA professor emeritus of music Roger Bourland, a renowned composer and musician, will premiere his grand opera,  “La Paloma y el Ruiseñor,” at the Teatro Angela Peralta in Mazatlán, Mexico, on Nov. 14.

Natividad “Nati” Cano, Grammy-winning mariachi leader and former director of the Music of Mexico Ensemble at UCLA, died Oct. 3. Cano played a major role in bringing mariachi music from local cafes to concert halls around the world.

Lesley Leighton has been appointed director of the UCLA Chorale and UCLA Chamber Singers in the Department of Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

Gerald Wilson, 96, a music legend who enlivened packed jazz history classes at UCLA with his memories of working with Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles and other jazz icons, died Sept. 8 at his home in Los Angeles two weeks after contracting pneumonia.

Kligman is a renowned expert on Jewish music, from sacred liturgical traditions to contemporary popular music. He joined the UCLA faculty July 1.

Professor Donald Neuen, longtime director of choral conducting and choral studies at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music, led his final concert on June 7 at Royce Hall.

The 25-member cast of the upcoming Ray Bolger Musical Theater Program production of "Guys and Dolls" has been rehearsing six times a week -- four hours at a stretch -- for opening night on Thursday.

The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, which partners with UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music, is honoring President Bill Clinton for his support of music education for young jazz musicians for over two decades.

A new music festival making its debut in Los Angeles will put a much-deserved focus on the evolution of the contemporary ensemble.

The ’03 grad performed at this year’s Grammys, where she was a double nominee. She’s also writing a book and a musical.

Benjamin Britten Continuing the long and fruitful relationship between UCLA and the L.A. Opera, prolific conductor James Conlon will present a series of lectures on the works of British composer Benjamin Britten beginning Thursday, Feb. 6. The...

Can music create a connection that years of politics and diplomacy have failed to build? Faculty and students at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music think that music can build such a bridge.