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Faculty & Staff Newspage 6

Student Newspage 7-10

Alumni Newspage 11

Fall 2012 Eventspage 12

Dear Faculty, Students, Staff, and Friends,

Greetings from the Ethnomusicology Publications Office! A new academic year is beginning here at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music! The new year brings some changes and exciting news as seen in the following pages. In addition to welcoming new students to the department, we also have fascinating updates from faculty, students, and alumni. As always, our dedicated Ethnomusicology graduate students are conducting fieldwork in numerous places around the globe, including Mexico, Belize, Macedonia, Egypt, and Niger. Back here in Westwood, we continue with the Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy Colloquium Series and other events listed on page 12. Please also note on page 12 that the journal Ethnomusicology Review is launching a new multimedia issue in anticipation of the Society for Ethnomusicology annual conference. We hope you enjoy this newsletter, and please feel free to contact us with any questions or comments! (ethnopub@arts.ucla.edu) We wish you all a productive year!

Katie StuffelbeamPublications Coordinator

Kathleen HoodPublications Director

Message from the Publications Office

Fall 2012 Newsletter

Department News

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(Middle and back rows, left to right): Ryan Yoo, Chaise Levy, Alan McDonnell, Zana Mesihovic, Anthony Cerrato, Amir Zimmerman, Joel Manduke, Payam Yousef, Nick Velez, Jacob Koransky, J. J. Ross, Grant Milliken, John Kitta, Kenya Garay, Michael Liao, Donnie Laudicina, Elena Loper, Alfred Bradley, Brenda Galvez.

(Front row, left to right): Dr. Helen Rees, Dr. Cheryl Keyes, Teresa Ruvalcaba, Sarah Won, Savannah Meares, Natalie Brainin, Christyana Cabal, Katy Pu.

UCLA Ethnomusicology Welcomes New Students Fall 2012

Incoming Undergraduate (Freshman and Transfer) Students

New Graduate Students

Rose Boomsma is a native of Madison Wisconsin and a graduate of Howard University’s Department of Music. During her time at Howard, she was able to study and perform different types of African American music, travel to Africa on a music tour, and start playing the Native American flute. She will continue her study of Native American music and will examine how it has become an important part of Western New Age music. As a flutist, she is interested in the important and diverse roles that the flute plays in different cultures around the world.

New Hampshire native and former English major Ben Doleac recently received his M.A. in ethnomusicology from the University of Alberta. His master’s thesis “Ready to Spread?: P-Funk and the Politics of Signifyin(g)” addresses rhetorical play and mystical utopianism in the music and mythology of George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic. A singer, songwriter, and guitarist, Ben has performed in groups ranging from gospel and madrigal choirs to the University of Alberta’s MENAME (Middle Eastern and North Africa Music Ensemble) and his own band, the Wufs. His current research interests include popular music and culture, Afrofuturism, transnational musical flows between New Orleans and the Caribbean, the music industry, and hip-hop culture. In the second year of his Ph.D. program, Ben plans to expand upon the subject of his master’s thesis by organizing a symposium on the music, meaning, and legacy of George Clinton and P-Funk.

Deonte Harris received his B.M. in composition from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011. During his undergraduate years, Deonte was the president and step master of the Kappa Rho chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. and participated in a number of step show performances. He also served as the bandleader and director of the University Gospel Choir at UW. After graduating, Deonte continued working in the gospel music tradition in Chicago, where he was director and praise leader of the Zion Hill Choir and Praise Team. Deonte is particularly interested in the interconnections of language and music, spirituality within music, globalization, cultural exchange, and commercialism of cultural forms. While studying at UCLA, Deonte intends to explore the musical culture and traditions that surround the “Divine 9” black Greek-letter organizations, gospel music, and hip-hop beat production.

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Badema Pitic is a native of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she received both her B.A. and M.A. in ethnomusicology from the University of Sarajevo. As Curator for Traditional Music at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina Badema gained wide experience in a number of fieldwork projects related to Bosnian music. Her research includes music in conflict, music and religion, music as a weapon, and music as remedy.

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Music industry executive and philanthropist Morris “Mo” Ostin donated $10 million to UCLA for a state-of-the-art campus music facility to be known as the Evelyn and Mo Ostin Music Center. The Ostin Music Center, comprised of two buildings, will include a high-tech recording studio, spaces for rehearsal and teaching, a café and social space for students, and an Internet-based music production center. Adjacent to the Schoenberg Music Building and the Inverted Fountain, the new structures will provide faculty and students access to the latest advances in music technology, research, and pedagogy.

The highly anticipated new structures were designed by Los Angeles–based Daly Genik Architects, under the direction of principal Kevin Daly. Daly Genik Architects’ previous projects include the National AIA Honor Award–winning Camino Nuevo High School in Los Angeles, the South Campus Building of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and the Harvard College Fine Arts Library’s Digital Images and Slide Collection in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Construction began in the summer of 2012, with a projected completion date in 2014.

Evelyn and Mo Ostin Music Center: Construction Begins

Monk Institute Masters in Jazz Program LaunchA groundbreaking partnership between the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, a nonprofit organization devoted to jazz education, began this fall, 2012. The partnership is the brainchild of philanthropist Herb Alpert, UCLA Jazz Studies Director Kenny Burrell, and Monk Institute Chair Herbie Hancock.

The collaboration will enable six to eight talented young musicians to study and perform together in an ensemble during a two-year institute program, with the option of pursuing the newly-created Master of Music degree in Jazz Performance through the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of Music. The students will be mentored by leaders in the world of jazz while receiving a comprehensive education in music theory, composition, and performance, as well as instruction in the business of music, marketing, and outreach. Throughout the course of the program, the students will also teach at high schools and middle schools throughout Los Angeles.

Tim Rice, Director of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music says, “The program will benefit all of us in the School through a very active program of master classes and workshops open to all and a rich outreach program into local schools. Among the master classes we can expect this fall are ones by jazz legends Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Jimmy Heath, and Billy Childs.”

For more information:http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-joy-of-jazz-at-ucla-201528.aspxhttp://www.monkinstitute.org/education/college/index2.php

NEA Jazz Master and legendary bassist Ron Carter performed and answered questions in front of a packed Jan Popper Theater on Thursday, September 27 for a master class presented by the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at UCLA and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

Mr. Carter, who taught at the Institute throughout the week, performed a solo bass rendition of “You are My Sunshine,” by jazz guitarist Bill Frisell. He also discussed his career and shared his insights on practicing, the role of the bass in a jazz group, and the differences between classical music and jazz.

Jazz Studies student and bassist Eric Shiboski attended the master class. Shiboski, who also had a private lesson with Mr. Carter said, “It was an amazing experience to see him improvise in such an intimate setting. Also, it was amazing to hear the perspective of someone who has been playing that long and plays at that level. It was really enlightening.”

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Owen Clapp, current B.A. student in Ethno/Jazz Studies, has a private lesson with Ron Carter.

Ron Carter Residency, with students from the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance.

Ron Carter Master Class, September 27, 2012.

Ron Carter Performance and Master Class

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Faculty & Staff News

This fall, September 14-16, a northern Ghanaian “World Damba Festival” was held at Tufts University. Spearheaded by David Locke, along with the WDF2012@Tufts working group that included Dr. Jacqueline C. DjeDje, the event highlighted both academic panels as well as workshops on dancing and drumming, performances of traditional and popular music, and performances of different traditional Damba rituals. Dr. DjeDje and Ph.D. candidate Katie Stuffelbeam were invited to present papers at this multifaceted event. Dr. DjeDje presented a paper entitled “Salisu Mahama: A Fiddler’s Role in the Cultural Development of Modern Dagbon” and Katie Stuffelbeam presented “Dagbamba Women’s Songs: Music, Experience, and Meaning.” Dr. DjeDje writes:

As a presenter and a member of the Working Group that helped to organize World Damba Festival at Tufts, it was a fantastic experience. The event was significant because performing artists, scholars, researchers, community members and activists from Northern Ghana, and those living in the Diaspora (North America and Europe) came together with non-Ghanaians to not only celebrate but also to deal with important issues regarding development. I believe that it is unprecedented for this type of collaboration to take place on this level outside Ghana. Tufts University and David Locke should be congratulated and commended for their efforts in helping to make this happen.

(for more information about the WDF2012@Tufts event see: http://worlddamba2012.org. For more information about Dagbamba music and the Damba festival in general see: https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/DagombaDanceDrumming.)

Adjunct Assistant Professor Barbara Morrison performed numerous times this Summer, including shows at Steamers Jazz Club and Café, PiP’S on La Brea, Hotel Casa Del Mar, and the Catalina Bar & Grill.

After much anticipation, Timothy D. Taylor recently published two books: The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2012), www.soundsofcapitalism.com and a volume co-edited with Mark Katz and Tony Grajeda, Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio (Duke University Press, 2012), www.musicsoundtech.org. Also see The Sounds of Capitalism Facebook page for more information and to join the discussion.

Dr. DjeDje (far left) with Eddie Meadows, processing to the stage.

Friday evening Damba performance at Tufts.

Dr. DjeDje and Eddie Meadows (1st & 2nd from left) at World Damba Festival.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INDIAN STUDIES FELLOWSHIP Amalia Mora (Konkai Program)

CRITICAL LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIP Larry Robinson (summer 2012, study of Mandarin in China)

DEAN’S SCHOLARSHIPSEmma B. Keller Fine Arts Nina Kasuya

Evelyn and Mo Ostin Performing Arts Scholarship Gaayatri Kaundinya

Clifton Webb Scholarship Owen Clapp Ayanna Heidelbeg Ziyad Marcus Katie Godec Nina Kasuya

DISSERTATION YEAR FELLOWSHIP Ron Conner Michael Iyanaga Andrew Pettit Leticia Soto

ELAINE KROWN KLEIN FINE ARTS SCHOLARSHIP Jeff Roy (hold for 2013-14)

EUGENE COTA-ROBLES FELLOWSHIP Rose Boomsma

FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND AREA STUDIES (FLAS), TITLE VI Amalia Mora (summer 2012, study of Portuguese)

FULBRIGHT AWARDSFulbright IIENolan Warden

GRADUATE DEAN’S SCHOLAR AWARD Benjamin Doleac

GRADUATE RESEARCH MENTORSHIP AWARD Ty-Juana Taylor (Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje)

GRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH MENTORSHIP AWARD - Summer 2012 Victoria Ahrens (Timothy Taylor) Logan Clark (Timothy Taylor) Leon Garcia (Timothy Taylor) Ryan Koons (Tara Browner) Scott Linford (Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje) Alyssa Mathias (A.J. Racy) Kristina Nielsen (Tara Browner) Crystal Radford (Cheryl Keyes) Jeff Roy (Daniel Neuman) Eric Schmidt (Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje) Ty-Juana Taylor (Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje) Dave Wilson (Timothy Rice)

JAZZ SCHOLARSHIPSFriends of Jazz Award Michael Liao Savannah Meares Jacob Koransky Donald Laudicina

MOSS SCHOLARS AWARD Zana Mesihovic

UCMEXUS GRANT Nolan Warden

WENNER-GREN FOUNDATION DISSERTATION FIELDWORK GRANT Ron Conner

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Student NewsMany students received various awards and fellowships for the

2012-13 academic year. Congratulations!!!

León García, Ph.D. student and project manager at Smithsonian Folkways, was honored with the “Outstanding Website” award from the Web Marketing Association WebAwards in the Non-Profit category for the Smithsonian Folkways Jazz Education Website: www.folkways.si.edu/jazz/mixer.aspx. For more details about this great news see: www.webaward.org/winner.asp?eid=19084

News from Ph.D. candidate Alexandro D. Hernández: “I am currently on fellowship at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Every day is a great journey into writing my dissertation and finding resources here at the CFCH. I feel quite blessed to have received the Smithsonian Latino Predoctoral Fellowship. This past summer was spent doing fieldwork in Los Angeles, New York City, and Texas, where I am documenting the son jarocho as music of struggle and protest. One of my highlights was attending the 11th Encuentro de Jaraneros in Los Angeles. My initial plan was to strictly conduct research and serve as a volunteer at this annual son jarocho festival. However, I could not pass up the opportunity to share the stage with Louie Pérez from seminal Chicano band Los Lobos.”

“Above is a picture featuring fellow ethnomusicology student Jazmín Morales, me [Alexandro Hernández], master jaranero Patricio Hidalgo, and Louie Pérez. This was truly a symbolic exchange of mutual respect between Chicanos/Chicanas and Jarochos/Jarochas under one transnational musical tradition. Stay blessed and have a great quarter everyone!!” - Alexandro’

Ph.D. candidate Lauren Poluha is currently in southern Belize conducting her dissertation research on Garifuna music, religion, and ethnicity. In addition to daily swims in the sea and mastering the art of cracking open a coconut with a machete, Lauren is learning to speak Garifuna, play the garaones (Garifuna drums), and is also volunteering as a librarian and tutor at the local library.

The Aditya Prakash Ensemble (APE) fronted by Carnatic vocalist Aditya Prakash (B.A. ’10) completed a successful trip to New York City on Sunday, September

30, 2012. They performed at Manhattan’s Grand Hyatt hotel for an audience of distinguished Indian architects. Band members of APE include current jazz studies students Jonah Levine (’14) and Owen Clapp (’13) as well as Shiva Ramamurthi (’14), alumni Julian Le (B.A. ’12) on piano, alto saxophonist Mark Einhorn (B.A. ’11), drummer Jake Jamieson (B.A./M.A. ’10), and tenor saxophonist Hitomi Oba (B.A. ’06, M.A. ’08 Music/Composition). APE is a cross-genre collaboration, fusing Indian classical music and jazz harmony.

News from Ph.D. candidate Lara Rann: “This summer I had the honor of attending the 2012 Democratic National Convention, which was held in my hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina. I attended the convention in honor of my late grandfather, Democratic Party leader James Foxx, Sr., and at the invitation of my cousin, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx. One highlight was L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s speech in which he ‘shouted out’ UCLA and praised Charlotte for its ‘Southern hospitality.’ My favorite part was seeing First Lady Michelle Obama speak because she reminded us that from the most challenging depths of life comes the ability for us to reach our highest heights.

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More Student News!

Lauren Poluha playing Garifuna music with friends in Belize.

APE: (from left to right) Mark Einhorn, Shiva Ramamurthi, Julian Le, Jonah Levine, Aditya Prakash, Jake Jamieson, and Owen Clapp.

I encountered protest music in a concert given by soul singer John Legend, who opened his set with Bob Marley’s ‘Redemption Song.’ The lyrics, ‘Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds. Have no fear for atomic energy, ‘Cause none of them can stop the time’ were poignant.” - Lara

Carolina Girls: Lara D. Rann and daughter A.J.

Over the past few years there have been several young additions to the Department of Ethnomusicology. Somehow between coursework, exams, writing papers, presenting at conferences, fieldwork, dissertation writing, and so on, graduate students have also become parents! Angshumala Tamang, Beto Gonzalez, and others began the wave a few years ago, and more recently Andy Pettit, Lara Rann, Nolan Warden, and Kevin Blankenship and Katie Stuffelbeam join the ranks of Ethno parents! The world must have needed more women during the past couple years, because we all ended up having girls! Hope you enjoy these photos of our new little ones.

M.A. student Eric J. Schmidt spent two months conducting preliminary fieldwork in Niger, funded by a Graduate Summer Research Mentorship and supervised

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Nolan and his daughter Lucía (mother Hilda not in photo).

Brenda, Andy, and daughter Samantha during fieldwork in India.

Members of the Ensemble Instrumental National rehearse at the Centre de Formation et de Promotion Musicale (CFPM) “El Hadj Taya” in Niamey, Niger. (Photo by Schmidt, 2012)

Katie, Kevin, and daughter Ariana on the bus after Ari-ana’s first concert (Herbie Hancock at the Hollywood Bowl).

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by Prof. J. C. DjeDje. In addition to taking French and Tamasheq language lessons, Eric attended performances in a variety of contexts, studied calabash and molo (plucked lute), and volunteered for the grassroots non-profit organization Rain for the Sahel and Sahara, in which capacity he helped train local staff in photography and participatory video methods.

In June of this year, Ph.D. candidate Leticia Isabel Soto Flores was appointed Director of the first degree-offering mariachi school in Mexico, called Escuela de Mariachi Ollin Yoliztli en Garibaldi. It is a project sponsored by the Mexico City Department of Culture, under the auspices of the Ollin Yoliztli Cultural Center. Please see the Facebook page for more information: www.facebook.com/escuelamariachi.ollinyoliztli.

M.A. student Darci Sprengel recently completed three months of fieldwork on the jazz and alternative music scenes in Cairo and Alexandria Egypt. She interviewed leading figures in the contemporary Egyptian music scene, including Grammy winner Fathy Salama and jazz legend Yahia Khalil. In addition, Sprengel interviewed and attended concerts of many bands in the metal, rock, and fusion scenes. This research will culminate in her master’s paper, which aims to examine street culture and the street as a cultural space both before and after the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

Ph.D. candidate Katie Stuffelbeam presented “Dagbamba Women’s Songs: Music, Experience, and Meaning” at the World Damba Festival 2012 @ Tufts. She also sang during the performance of the Damba ritual. See Damba article in Faculty and Staff News.

Kim Tran presented a paper titled “Vietnamese Hát Bội Opera as Symbol: Nostalgia and Nationalism in the Diaspora” at the European Foundation for Chinese Music Research conference in Leiden, the Netherlands.

Ph.D. Candidate Nolan Warden is currently beginning his dissertation research in Mexico. Funded by grants from Fulbright-IIE and UC Mexus, Nolan and family are planning on staying abroad for up to two years. Currently Nolan is focused on language learning by attending a course on the Wixárika (Huichol) language at the Centro

Universitario del Norte (CUNorte), a regional campus of the Universidad de Guadalajara located in Colotlán, Jalisco.

Graduate student Dave Wilson (above) presented at the European Seminar for Ethnomusicology (September 19-22 in Ljubljana, Slovenia), which was organized around the theme “Music and Cultural Memory in post-1989 Europe.” His paper, “Shaping the Past and Creating the Future: Music at Macedonia’s Celebration of Twenty Years of Independence,” focused on competing narratives of nation and cosmopolitanism surrounding the production, performance, and reception of the music at that celebration. He also gave a guest lecture, in Macedonian, titled “Race, Class, and Oral Tradition in Early Jazz and American Society” at Euro-Balkan University in Skopje, Macedonia, as part of a summer evening lecture series on September 17. Lastly, he performed at the Kavadarci (Macedonia) Jazz Festival on August 27 with the Marie Petrov Quartet, collaborating with fellow jazz musicians from Macedonia, France, and Serbia.

Katie, far right, with lead singer Fati Mankaila, center.

The photo above is of Nolan at the archeological ruins of Teotihuacan, outside of Mexico City, during the Fulbright orientation. Photo by anonymous Japanese tourist, whose photo was also taken by an anonymous American tourist.

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Christi-Anne Castro (Ph.D. ’01) received the 2012 Global Filipino Literary Award for non-fiction for her book Musical Renderings of the Philippine Nation (2011 Oxford University Press). Her book will receive “special cataloguing” status in the Library of Congress Southeast Asian Collection in the Asian Reading Room.

This fall Birgitta Johnson (Ph.D. ’08) begins a tenure-track, joint-appointment as Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology in the School of Music and the African American Studies Program at the University of South Carolina. Her article “Gospel Archiving in Los Angeles: A Case of Proactive Archiving and Empowering Collaborations” was published in the current issue (Vol. 21:2) of Ethnomusicology Forum. The article describes the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive’s GALA Project and the Archive’s UCLA in L.A.-funded collaboration with Margaret Pleasant Douroux and the Heritage Music Foundation from 2004-2005. Johnson served as the project’s fieldwork project manager while a doctoral student in the Ethnomusicology Department. Johnson also participated in a 2-day consultation at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship in Grand Rapids, Michigan for Readings in African American Christian Music and Worship Vol. 2 edited by James Abbington (Emory U., Chandler School of Theology) published by GIA press, 2012.

Alumni Hitomi Oba (B.A. ’06 Ethno/Jazz Studies, M.A. ’08 Music/Composition) and Nick DePinna (B.A. ’07 Ethno/Jazz Studies, M.A. ’10 Music/Composition), in collaboration with playwright Jerome Parker (M.A. ’09 Theater/Film/Television, UCLA), present Act I of their new jazz opera, Strange Fellowe, on October 26 and 27 at the Fais Do-Do Ballroom in Los Angeles. Begun when all three collaborators were graduate students at UCLA, “Strange Fellowe” is based on the work of English poet Walter de la Mare. This performance will present a staging of Act I of the three acts, set in Germany, 1915, as the ghost of a soldier searches for home. The staging will be followed by a concert of music from Acts 2 and 3. More information can be found at: http://nexusmusic.wordpress.com/strangefellowe2012

Over the summer, Julie Raimondi filed her Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Space, Place, and Music in New Orleans.” She is now lecturing at Tufts University for the fall semester.

Other News

Ethnomusicology Review announces its new issue, out November 1, 2012. Click here ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu to see the latest issue, which features Professor Emeritus Anthony Seeger’s colloquium talks from Spring 2012. One of the publications unique features is the Sounding Board, ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/sounding-board, where scholars and music enthusiasts alike can host conversations about current events and developments in the field. Advocating for ethnomusicology that transcends methodological borders and encourages intercultural understanding since its establishment in 1984, Ethnomusicology Review (formerly Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology) continues to offer diverse scholarly approaches to musical practice in the form of refereed articles, essays, and reviews.

Consultants for Readings in African American Christian Music and Worship Volume 2 (Back row, left to right): Ralph Watkins (Columbia Theological Seminary), John Witvliet (Calvin College), Kimberleigh Jordan-Paige (The Riverside Church in New York), Frank Thomas (Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church), Robert Darden (Baylor University), Emmett Price (Northeastern University), and Todd Cioffi (Calvin College).(Front row, left to right): Lisa Weaver (Catholic University of America), Kristen Verhulst (Cavlin Institute Program Manager), Michelle Loyd-Paige (Calvin College), Birgitta Johnson (U. of South Carolina), Mark Charles (Calvin Institute-Window Rock, AZ), and James Abbington (Chandler School of Theology, Emory University).

Alumni News

Christi-Anne Castro’s book Musical Renderings of the Philippine Nation (2011 Oxford University Press).

Fall 2012 EventsThursday, September 27, 8pmMaster class with jazz bassist Ron CarterPresented by the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz PerformanceJan Popper Theater, Schoenberg Music Building

Wednesday, October 3, 1-3pmNazir Ali Jairazbhoy Colloquium Series: SEM Student Paper Practice Session IRoom B544, Schoenberg Music Building

Tuesday, October 9, 6:30pmMusic and Dance of Zimbabwe with Martha Thom and Jacob MafuleniJan Popper Theater, Schoenberg Music Building

Monday, October 15, 10amMaster class with jazz alto saxophonist Steve ColemanPresented by the Student Committee for the Arts and Center for the Art of PerformanceRoom 1343, Schoenberg Music Building

Wednesday, October 17, 1-3pmNazir Ali Jairazbhoy Colloquium Series: SEM Student Paper Practice Session IIRoom B544, Schoenberg Music Building

Thursday, October 18, 12-1:30 p.m.Master class with master improvisation teacher and trombonist Hal Crook Presented by the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance Room 1345, Schoenberg Music Building

Saturday, October 20, All Day (9:30am-midnight)Ragaspirit 2012: A Festival of Indian MusicSymposium 9:30-noon; Concerts 2pm-midnightSee www.Ragasiprit.com for more informationSchoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building

Monday, November 5, 9-11amMaster class with jazz pianist Kenny Barron Faculty member at the Juilliard School of MusicRoom 1439, Schoenberg Music Building

Thursday, November 8, 8 p.m.Master class with NEA Jazz Master saxophonist Jimmy Heath Presented by the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance Jan Popper Theater, Schoenberg Music Building

Wednesday, November 14, 1-3pmNazir Ali Jairazbhoy Colloquium Series Guangming LiSpecially Invited Professor, China Conservatory, Beijing “New Findings on the Monochord and Non-mathemati-cal Methods of Constructing the 12-Lülü Chromatic Scale in Ancient China” Room B544, Schoenberg Music Building

Newsletter Editor: Katie Stuffelbeam

Katie Stuffelbeam, Publications CoordinatorKathleen Hood, Publications Director

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Department of Ethnomusicology

2539 Schoenberg Music Building, Box 951657Los Angeles, CA 90095-1657

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Wednesday, November 14, 7-8pmLecture/Demonstration on Japanese Kabuki MusicRoom 1325, Schoenberg Music Building

Friday, November 16, 2:30 p.m.Master class with NEA Jazz Master saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter Presented by the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance Room 1325, Schoenberg Music Building

Monday, November 26, 7-9pmUCLA Jazz Combo ConcertSchoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building

Tuesday, November 27, 7-9pmBig Band Jazz ConcertSchoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building

Wednesday, December 5, 1-3pmNazir Ali Jairazbhoy Colloquium SeriesTara Browner, Professor of Ethnomusicology, UCLA“Bach Culture: Performers, Scholars, and Bachfreunde in the 21st Century”Room B544, Schoenberg Music Building

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