UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology events of fall 2009

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The UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology offers a series of events for the public's enjoyment throughout the year. Programs include performances of high artistic accomplishment in various genres directed by faculty of national and international renown, as well as academic lectures, conferences and symposium. For updated information and confirmation of events, the public may call 310-206-3033 or visit www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu.

For events at UCLA's Schoenberg Music Building, all-day parking ($10) and short-term parking (payable at pay stations) are available in Lot 2 (enter the campus at Hilgard and Westholme avenues).

Thursday–Sunday, Oct. 22–25
Dialogue in Music Project: Africa Meets North America
Third International Symposium and Festival

The four-day Dialogue in Music Project festival and symposium at UCLA will focus on intercultural relations between Africa and North America through performances, lectures, workshops by African and North American composers and performers, and scholarly papers and panels on the music of Africa and the African Diaspora.

The project was established in 1990 as a biennial international symposium and festival at the Center for Intercultural Musicology at Churchill College, Cambridge, under the direction of Nigerian composer, musicologist and pianist Akin Euba. Symposium and festivals have been held in several locations around the globe, including China and India. Each symposium and festival contributes to Euba's idea of "intercultural musicology," which encourages creativity between cultures and within musical expressions.

Nightly concerts are free. Registration for all other symposium events is $50 (four days) or $15 (daily). All events are free for students. For more information on the festival and a full schedule and list of participants, visit http://amna.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/index.html.

Dialogue in Music Project Free Concerts

Thursday, Oct. 22

7:30 p.m.
Jan Popper Theater, Schoenberg Music Building (1200)

  • Flautist Laura Falzon (U.S./Malta), accompanied by Janise White (piano) and Wilson Moorman (darbukka), performs works by Akin Euba, Halim El-Dabh and Roy Travis, among others, including two world premieres and one U.S. premiere.
  • American singer-storyteller Karen Wilson and Richard Thompson (piano) perform Lieber and Stoller's "Hound Dog," traditional blues tunes "C.C. Rider" and "Seeline Woman," and "Now, Baby, or Never" by Billie Holiday and Curtis Lewis.
  • Nigerian drummer and composer O'dyke Nzewi performs "Classical Drum Solo: Solo Works Written for African Single Membrane Drum" and "Intercultural Duos: Drum and Saxophone."

Friday, Oct. 23

7:30 p.m.
Jan Popper Theater, Schoenberg Music Building (1200)

  • Jamaican-born pianist Maxine Franklin performs compositions by Rachel Eubanks, including "Waters of the Ganges" (1936), "Theme and Variations on an Aborigine Bora Tune" and "Sonata" (1992).
  • Liberian-born soprano Dawn Padmore performs "Song and Arias" by Akin Euba, "Ive Maka" and "Igbo Songs" by Joshua Uzoigwe, "Because of You" by Fela Sowande and "Songs from the African Diaspora."
  • Ethiopian pianist and composer Girma Yifrashewa performs Interludes I and V from "Five Interludes for Piano" (1984) by Rachel Eubanks, "January Dance" by Robert Mawuena Kwami, Preludes II and I by George Gershwin, and his own compositions "Ambassel," "Chewata," "Sememen," "Elilta" and "The Shepherd With the Flute."
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