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The Grand Hotel Tartarus, a New Opera by Richard Danielpour
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Six guests appear at an ornate hotel with no idea how they got there. The gracious and aristocratic hotel manager, Mr. Lucian, promises to fulfill all their earthly desires if they remain. In this new opera by Richard Danielpour, the guests will have one night only to ponder a choice that will affect them for eternity.
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The Spring Festival of World Music
The Spring Festival of World Music
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music programs its Spring Festival of World Music annually, featuring our world-renowned ensembles supported by our Department of Ethnomusicology.
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Richard Danielpour’s Opera The Grand Hotel Tartarus Is Not Just Any Luxury Hotel
Opera UCLA to premiere this new opera May 17, 19, 21 & 23 at the Freud Playhouse at UCLA Grammy Award-winning composer Richard Danielpour found the inspiration he needed for his new opera in Las Vegas. It was mid-February of 2020 and he had been invited to give a series of lectures and masterclasses at
A Special Gift for Mother's Day
What are you getting your mother for Mother’s Day? A card, chocolates, flowers, perhaps a bottle of champagne? Well, what about endowing a scholarship in her name? This year, two alumnae of UCLA’s school of music had scholarships endowed in their names by their sons. Dana Gordon established the Diane K. Gordon Memorial Undergraduate and
Recording Bernstein's "Touches" on Bernstein's Piano
UCLA music composition student and pianist Sydney Wang boarded a plane bound for Indiana this past March. The destination: Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. The objective: record a 40-minute long album of Leonard Bernstein’s music on the composer’s own piano. Executive produced by Wang’s longtime collaborator Henry Thuss, an audio engineering student at Indiana
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Music of China and Thailand
The Music of China Ensemble and Music of Thailand Ensemble showcase traditional music from these regions on the same stage. The Music of China Ensemble performs arias from Kun opera of the 15th century, silk-and-bamboo music from the Shanghai area, folk dances for festive celebration, zheng zither music in the Keijia style from Canton Province,
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