Gustavo Dudamel Receives Inaugural Herb Alpert Honor

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The Herb Alpert Foundation has named conductor Gustavo Dudamel as the inaugural recipient of The Herb Alpert Honor, a new $1 million unrestricted grant recognizing an individual whose work has driven meaningful social change through music. The award, announced today, goes jointly to Dudamel and his Dudamel Foundation, which he co-chairs with actress María Valverde. The foundation focuses on music {…}

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UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music to Feature Performance Starring Hilá Plitmann

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Soprano Hilá Plitmann will perform a concert at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music on Dec. 1, 2023. The free concert, which kicks off at 8 p.m., represents the culmination of a week-long collaboration with the soprano and the institution. During that collaboration, Plitmann will work together with student composers and then present the results of that work together. Also {…}

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Obituary: Estonian Conductor Jüri Alperten Dies at 63

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(Credit: Rahvusooper Estonia) Estonian conductor Jüri Alperten has died at the age of 63, after a long illness. Alperten graduated from the Tallinn Conservatory in 1979 and was the Chief Conductor of the Estonian National Opera from 2002 to 2004; he was also the Chief Conductor of the Pärnu City Orchestra since 1998. Alperten had worked with several prominent orchestras, {…}

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Soprano Golda Zahra Joins Maestra Parissa as Part of Farhang Foundation’s Nowruz Concert at UCLA’s Royce Hall

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Farhang Foundation has announced that it has canceled its previously planned 16th annual Nowruz celebration at UCLA’s Dickson Court in response to the ongoing loss of innocent lives in Iran, and will instead present a “Light Always Prevails.” The Nowruz concert will showcase the talents of Maestra Parissa and Golda Zahra on the Royce Hall stage on March 8, 2026. {…}

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Melanie Dyer’s ‘Incalculable Likelihood’ Gets NYC Performances This December

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Melanie Dyer’s “Incalculable Likelihood” is set to get performances on Dec. 5 and 6, 2025 at Mabou Mines in New York City. The work is an improvised oratorio, featuring tape recordings of Dyer’s grandmother singing sacred songs she wrote as a member of the Church of God and Saints of Christ, a 120-year-old African American community in Virginia. The piece {…}

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Hilá Plitmann to Perform with LSU Symphony

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(Credit: Marc Royce) On Oct. 15, 2024, soprano Hilá Plitmann will be joining the LSU Wind Ensemble, LSU Symphony Orchestra, and LSU A Cappella Choir as a soloist at the Union Theatre. In a statement, Plitmann said, “I am thrilled to be returning to the wonderful music department at LSU. I had the joy of performing Michael Daugherty’s ‘Songs from {…}

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Opera UCLA to Present World Premiere of ‘The Grand Hotel Tartarus’

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Opera UCLA, in collaboration with The Herb Alpert School of Music and UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television, is set to present the world premiere of “The Grant Hotel Tartarus.” The new work by composer Richard Danielpour will bow on May 21 and 23, 2024 preceded by preview performances on May 17 and 19. The opera follows six guests {…}

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Gustavo Dudamel Awarded UCLA Medal

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Gustavo Dudamel, the LA Philharmonic’s Music Director, will receive the UCLA Medal, the highest honor of excellence for extraordinary accomplishment given to an individual by the university. He will receive the award during a ceremony on May 7 from UCLA Chancellor Gene Block. The medal, which is designed by Tiffany & Co., is awarded to those who have achieved exceptional {…}

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Lowell Milken Center for the Music of the American Jewish Experience to Present Part Two of Music and Justice Series

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The Lowell Milken Center for the Music of the American Jewish Experience at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music has announced the second part of its “Music and Justice” series on May 18, 2023, in UCLA’s Royce Hall. “Righteousness and Bravery: A Concert for Sugihara,” honors the Japanese Vice Consul Chiune Sempo Sugihara, who saved thousands of Jewish refugees {…}

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Gustavo Dudamel Receives Inaugural Herb Alpert Honor

UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music to Feature Performance Starring Hilá Plitmann

Obituary: Estonian Conductor Jüri Alperten Dies at 63

Soprano Golda Zahra Joins Maestra Parissa as Part of Farhang Foundation’s Nowruz Concert at UCLA’s Royce Hall

Melanie Dyer’s ‘Incalculable Likelihood’ Gets NYC Performances This December

Hilá Plitmann to Perform with LSU Symphony

Opera UCLA to Present World Premiere of ‘The Grand Hotel Tartarus’

Gustavo Dudamel Awarded UCLA Medal

Lowell Milken Center for the Music of the American Jewish Experience to Present Part Two of Music and Justice Series