Kenny Burrell Directs Jazz Groups as Part of UCLA Spring Fest of World Music & JazzThe UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of EthnomusicologypresentsSpring Festival of World Music and Jazz 2015May 15 – June 2, 2015Schoenberg Hall, UCLA
Jeffrey Kahane opens the concert with a world premiere from the “offbeat imagination” (Twincities.com) of Ted Hearne, known for works that are multi-dimensional and deeply personal. Leonard Bernstein Award-winner Jonathan Biss performs the Mozart Concerto, sometimes referred to as the “Elvira Madigan” because its second movement features prominently in the 1967 Swedish movie.
Sherie Randolph is assistant professor of History and Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the former Associate Director of the Women’s Research & Resource Center at Spelman College, and was most recently awarded fellowships from Emory University’s James Weldon Johnson Center and the Schomburg Center for Research in […]
Dr. Neil Roberts is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Faculty Affiliate in Political Science at Williams College. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from The University of Chicago with a specialization in political theory. His present writings deal with the intersections of Caribbean, Continental, and North American political theory with respect to […]
45th Anniversary of the founding of the UCLA Ethnic Studies Research Centers:American Indian Studies CenterAsian American Studies CenterChicano Studies Research CenterRalph J. Bunche Center for African American StudiesOn this occasion we will honor those who through their academic excellence, vision, dedication, bravery, and fortitude established these unique and enduring institutions.UCLA Faculty Center,California Room
Frank Guridy is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. His recent research explores sports history: a history of race and masculinity in Black Diasporic sporting cultures; and a book-length study of the role of stadiums in U.S. cities also during the 20th century. His talk, Nation Time at the […]
Evie Shockley is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She is the author of Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African Ameri-can Poetry, as well as two books of poetry, a half-red sea and the new black (which won the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry). Her essays and poetry […]
Kenny Burrell Directs Jazz Groups as Part of UCLA Spring Fest of World Music & JazzThe UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of EthnomusicologypresentsSpring Festival of World Music and Jazz 2015May 15 – June 2, 2015Schoenberg Hall, UCLA
Kenny Burrell Directs Jazz Groups as Part of UCLA Spring Fest of World Music & JazzThe UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of EthnomusicologypresentsSpring Festival of World Music and Jazz 2015May 15 – June 2, 2015Schoenberg Hall, UCLA
Kenny Burrell Directs Jazz Groups as Part of UCLA Spring Fest of World Music & JazzThe UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of EthnomusicologypresentsSpring Festival of World Music and Jazz 2015May 15 – June 2, 2015Schoenberg Hall, UCLA
