UCLA Dept. of Music announces fall concerts and productions

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.

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 is also available (payable at pay stations). For events at Schoenberg Hall, park in Lot 2 (enter the campus at Hilgard and Westholme avenues), and for events at Glorya Kaufman Hall and Royce Hall, park in Lot 4 (enter the campus at Sunset Boulevard and Westwood Plaza)

CONCERTS & PRODUCTIONS

Thursday, Oct. 21 8 p.m.
UCLA Philharmonia
Neal Stulberg, conductor
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Tickets: $12; $5 for UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
The UCLA Philharmonia will perform Claude Debussy's "Images pour Orchestre" and Jean Sibelius' Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43.

Saturday, Nov. 6, 9 a.m.–7 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 7, 9 a.m.–2 p.m.
Vandoren Clarinet Ensemble Festival
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Some events free to the public The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music hosts the sixth annual Vandoren Clarinet Ensemble Festival, presented in association with Buffet Crampon. For more information, visit www.whyvandoren.com.

Wednesday, Nov. 10 8 p.m.
UCLA Wind Ensemble
Thomas Lee, conductor
Will Plenk and Jessica Swift, guest conductors
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Tickets: $12; $5 for UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
This program will feature the music of great American composers and will also include an excerpt from Richard Wagner's "Lohengrin" arranged by UCLA student Mark Bolin. In addition, the student winner of the 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–Saturday, Nov. 11–13, 8 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 14, 2 p.m.
Opera UCLA and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
G.F. Händel — 'Agrippina'
Stephen Stubbs, conductor James Darrah, director
Freud Playhouse, Macgowan Hall
Tickets: $12; $5 for UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
Agrippina is the ambitious mother of the immoral teenager Nero. The opera focuses on the development of the future tyrant, illustrated explicitly by his mother's machinations to place him on the throne. All productions of Opera UCLA are made possible through the generous support of the Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation.

Monday, Nov. 15 8 p.m.
chambermusic@ucla
Celebrating Bicentennials of the Great Composers: Chopin and Schumann
Vitaly Margulis, piano
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Tickets: $12; $5 for UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
Described as "a secret genius" by Joachim Kaiser of the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, pianist Vitaly Margulis will perform a recital celebrating the bicentennials of the births of Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann. The program includes Chopin's "Polonaises," "Scherzo" and "Berceuse" and Schumann's "Kreslerian."

Thursday, Nov. 18 8 p.m.
UCLA Philharmonia
Neal Stulberg, conductor
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Tickets: $12; $5 for UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
Works to be performed include Charles Ives' "Three Places in New England" and Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 in E flat ("Romantic").

Wednesday, Dec. 1 8 p.m.
UCLA Symphony
Henry Shin and Jorge Uzcátegui, conductors
Ambroise Aubrun, violin
Lusine Marukyan, soprano
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Tickets: $12; $5 for UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
The UCLA Symphony will perform Carl Maria von Weber's Overture to "Der Freischütz" J. 277; Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26; Amilcare Ponchielli's "Danza delle ore" (Dance of the Hours) from "La Gioconda"; Vincenzo Bellini's "Ah, non credea mirarti … Ah, non giunge" from "La Sonnambula"; and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Capriccio Italien," Op. 45.

Saturday, Dec. 4 8 p.m.
UCLA Chorale, University Chorus and UCLA Philharmonia
All-Mozart Holiday Gala
Rebecca Lord and Neal Stulberg, conductors
Guillaume Sutre, violin
Richard O'Neill, viola
Royce Hall
Tickets: $15, $10
This performance will feature Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E flat for Violin and Viola, K. 364 and Mass in C minor, K. 427.

COMING IN WINTER 2011
Friday, Feb. 18, 8 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 20, 2 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 24, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 26, 2 p.m.
Opera UCLA and UCLA Philharmonia Poulenc's 'Dialogues of the Carmelites'
Peter Kazaras, stage director
Neal Stulberg, conductor
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building