UCLA Dept. of Music announces fall programs

The UCLA Department of Music is offering a variety of events for the public's enjoyment this fall. Programs include faculty and student recitals and performances of high artistic accomplishment in various genres, as well as visiting artists of national and international renown.

Programs are subject to change. For updated information and confirmation of events, the public may call 310-825-4761 or visit www.music.ucla.edu.

All concerts are at Schoenberg Hall on the UCLA campus, unless otherwise noted. For ticketed events, contact the UCLA Central Ticket Office at 310-825-2101 or www.tickets.ucla.edu.

Campus parking is available for $10 (all-day); short-term parking (payable at pay stations) is also available. For events at Schoenberg Hall, park in Lot 2 (enter the campus at Hilgard and Westholme avenues); for Royce Hall events, use Lot 4 (enter the campus at Sunset Boulevard and Westwood Plaza).

CONCERTS & PRODUCTIONS

Saturday, Oct. 24
7:30 p.m.
UCLA Philharmonia — "Africa Meets North America"
Neal Stulberg, conductor
Free
The UCLA Philharmonia performs William Banfield's "Essay for Orchestra" in conjunction with the Dialogue in Music Project: Africa Meets North America festival and symposium, which runs from Oct. 22 through Oct. 25.

Thursday, Oct. 29
8 p.m.
UCLA Philharmonia
Neal Stulberg, conductor and pianist
Tickets: $12; $5 for UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
The UCLA Philharmonia performs Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466, and Mahler's Symphony No. 5.

Wednesday, Nov. 4
8 p.m.
UCLA Wind Ensemble
Thomas Lee, conductor
Tickets: $12; $5 for UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
The UCLA Wind Ensemble performs settings of Leonard Bernstein's "Mass" and "West Side Story," as well as works by Berlioz, Persichetti and Spaniola. In addition, the student winner of the 13th annual "What Music Means to Me" essay contest at John Adams Middle School will conduct John Philip Sousa's popular march "Stars and Stripes Forever."

Thursday, Nov. 12
8 p.m.
chambermusic@ucla presents Vitaly Margulis, piano
Tickets: $12; $5 for UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
Margulis' solo piano recital includes selections from Grieg's "Lyric Pieces" and Chopin's "Etudes."

Thursday, Nov. 19
8 p.m.
UCLA Philharmonia and UCLA Chorale
Tickets: $12; $5 for UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
The UCLA Philharmonia is featured in this inaugural public event of the new UCLA Center for the Liberal Arts and Free Institutions. The concert is part of the center's Lincoln bicentennial conference and includes Copland's "Canticle of Freedom" for chorus and orchestra (1955) and the world premiere of UCLA faculty member David Lefkowitz's "Lincoln Echoes," a cantata for narrator, tenor, baritone, chorus and orchestra, based on texts by Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama.

Wednesday, Dec. 2
8 p.m.
UCLA Symphony
Ayse Taspinar, piano
Henry Shin and Jorge Uzcategui, conductors
Tickets: $12; $5 for UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
The UCLA Symphony will perform Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3, Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21, and Balakirev's Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21.

Thursday, Dec. 3
8 p.m.
chambermusic@ucla presents UCLA Faculty Composers — "Back to the '70s"
Tickets: $12, $5 for UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
The program will feature the works of Münir Beken, Roger Bourland, Mark Carlson, Paul Chihara, Ian Krouse, David Lefkowitz and James Newton. Performers include the UCLA Faculty String Quartet, with Movses Pogossian (violin), Guillaume Sutre (violin), Richard O'Neill (viola) and Antonio Lysy (cello); faculty members Walter Ponce (piano), Vladimir Chernov (baritone) and Rakefet Hak (piano); and guest artists Kyung-Hee Kim (harp) and Kenneth McGrath (vibraphone), among others.

Saturday, Dec. 5
7:30 p.m. pre-concert carols
8 p.m. concert Handel's "Messiah"
UCLA Chorale, UCLA Chamber Singers, UCLA University Chorus, Angeles Chorale and UCLA Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra
Donald Neuen and Anthony Maglione, conductors
Royce Hall
Tickets: $15 general admission; $10 for seniors and students (with ID)
UCLA musicians perform Handel's beloved oratorio "Messiah." The UCLA Chamber Singers will perform pre-concert carols in the Royce Hall lobby.

COMING IN FEBRUARY 2010
Fridays, Feb. 5 and 12, 8 p.m.
Sundays, Feb. 7 and 14, 2 p.m.
Opera UCLA — "Giasone"
Stephen Stubbs, conductor
Peter Kazaras, director
Tickets: TBD
"Giasone" (Jason) is a Baroque opera composed in 1649 whose plot is loosely based on the story of Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece. The opera contains many comic elements too.