UCTV: Art and Music

Ravel’s Piano Trio in A Minor - La Jolla Music Society SummerFest

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 72:00:00 PDT

As part of SummerFest’s “Prelude” series, the acclaimed Newbury Trio performs Maurice Ravel’s “Piano Trio in A Minor”, composed in 1914 and widely regarded as a virtuosic masterpiece for piano, violin and cello. Series: "La Jolla Music Society: SummerFest" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24401]

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Gabriel Kahane: Come On All You Ghosts - La Jolla Music Society: SummerFest 2012

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 32:00:00 PDT

Composer Gabriel Kahane blurs the boundaries between popular and classical idioms with “Come On All You Ghosts,” his setting of three poems by San Francisco-based Matthew Zapruder, for voice and string quartet. In each of the songs, Kahane seeks musical equivalents for Zapruder’s exploration of spiritual and philosophical concerns as expressed in the mundanity of contemporary life. The result is a song cycle that is at once adventurous and accessible, with language both naturalistic and absurd - much like life. Series: "La Jolla Music Society: SummerFest" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24557]

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Museum Meets Orchestra - Sneak Preview No. 2

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:00:00 PDT

An advance look at an orchestra that goes off the beaten path, specifically at the UCLA Hammer Museum, which invited wild Up, a 24-member, experimental classical/contemporary orchestra, for a six-month residency. The behind-the-scenes series premieres January 7 on UCTV Prime, a YouTube original channel. Series: "Museum Meets Orchestra" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24299]

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Murder in the Cathedral - San Diego OperaTalk with Nick Reveles

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 60:00:00 PDT

The 1170 murder of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II shook Christian Europe to its foundation, and set off reverberations still felt today. The nefarious deed also inspired two 20th Century works of art, the verse play by T.S. Eliot and Ildebrando Pizzetti’s opera. San Diego Opera’s Nick Reveles provides a guided tour of ”Murder in the Cathedral,” including its basis in Eliot’s play, the development of musical themes, and Pizzetti’s melding of words and music for maximum dramatic effect. Series: "San Diego OperaTalk! with Nick Reveles" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24269]

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The Art in Science The Science in Art - La Jolla Playhouse

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 36:00:00 PDT

A conversation about creativity among San Diego’s leading medical researchers and La Jolla Playhouse artists, including Artistic Director Christopher Ashley and Des McAnuff, director of La Jolla Playhouse’s world premiere science fiction musical, “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.” Participants on the panel include: Gerald Joyce, professor in the departments of chemistry and molecular biology at The Scripps Research Institute, Thomas Albright, director of the Vision Center laboratory at Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Pamela Itkin-Ansari, adjunct assistant professor at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Daniel Einhorn (moderator), medical director of Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute. Series: "La Jolla Playhouse" [Humanities] [Science] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24355]

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It's Only Human...If it Dies

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 PDT

Now in its 8th year, the CCS TV Musical project throws a classroom full of talented writers and composers the challenge of reviving a beloved American art form, but for their own generation, and…for television. In this outing, the project offers an engaging new work grounded in the new realities of an increasingly digital world. Robots sing…people sing to robots! [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24388]

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Do Ho Suh’s Fallen Star - Stuart Collection at UCSD

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 28:00:00 PDT

Do Ho Suh’s fanciful “Fallen Star” is the eighteenth site-specific art work commissioned by UC San Diego’s renowned Stuart Collection. This program traces the project from initial concept through installation, including revealing comments from the artist about his inspirations and the intricacies of process. Series: "Stuart Collection" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24032]

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Museum Meets Orchestra: Sneak Preview No. 1

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 32:00:00 PDT

The UCLA Hammer Museum invited wild Up, a 24-member, experimental classical/contemporary orchestra, to be in residence over a six-month period in 2012. During that time, the orchestra presented three major concerts and 30 smaller chamber music performances that defied convention and transformed the museum into a space as unexpected and moving as the music itself. Here's a sneak preview of the UCTV Prime series “Museum Meets Orchestra,” premiering January 2013, which goes behind the scenes of this unusual residency. Series: "Museum Meets Orchestra" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24288]

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Daughter of the Regiment - San Diego OperaTalk with Nick Reveles

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 52:00:00 PDT

Donizetti’s sparkling comic opera tells the story of an orphaned French girl adopted by a regiment of soldiers in the waning days of World War II. Host Nicolas Reveles discusses the genesis and composition of the opera, its social milieu, composer Donizetti’s life and influences, and performs musical excerpts. Series: "San Diego OperaTalk! with Nick Reveles" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24268]

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Finale - La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest 2012

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 56:00:00 PDT

SummerFest has assembled 38 of the world’s best chamber and symphonic musicians as the SummerFest Chamber Orchestra, under the baton of celebrated conductor Kent Nagano. The eclectic program includes Beethoven’s viruoso “Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major,” Maurer’s surprising “Sinfonia Concertante in A Minor for Four Violins and Strings,” and Mendelssohn’s colorful “Symphony No. 4 in A Major.” Series: "La Jolla Music Society: SummerFest" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 23998]

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Commissions and Premieres - La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest 2012

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 88:00:00 PDT

SummerFest’s long tradition of showcasing new works continues, with stimulating pieces by American composers Gabriel Kahane, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and Aaron Jay Kernis, and French composer Marc-Andre Dalbavie. Series: "La Jolla Music Society: SummerFest" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 23997]

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The Best Seat in the House: UCLA’s Chamber Music at the Clark Library - UCTV Prime Cuts

, 01 01:01:01 PDT

If you're a chamber music fan and you find Wigmore, Alice Tully and Carnegie halls not nearly exclusive enough, consider UCLA's Clark Library. Since 1994, the beloved rare-book library in Los Angeles' West Adams district has featured the same talent as the best-known music halls in the world, in the kind of intimate setting for which chamber music was conceived. All Chamber Music at the Clark concerts are presented in a sumptuous, acoustically superlative 100-seat drawing room — just like L.A. Philharmonic founder William Andrews Clark Jr. wanted it. Series: "UCTV Prime Cuts" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24342]

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Tan Dun’s Water Passion - La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest 2012

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:00:00 PDT

“Water Passion” is a multicultural/multimedia oratorio, written by acclaimed Chinese composer Tan Dun to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of J.S. Bach, whose “St. Matthew Passion” provided the initial inspiration for this work. The music is a theatrical mix of water bowls, drums, strings, Tibetan bells, chants, digital sounds, Chinese opera and Tuvan throat singing, with a dash of jazz and postmodernism, all filtered through Tan Dun’s adventurous sensibility. Series: "La Jolla Music Society: SummerFest" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 23996]

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Modern Family’s Steven Levitan

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 56:00:00 PDT

Steven Levitan, the co-creator of the successful comedy, Modern Family, discusses the creative process, the relationship of a pilot to a series itself, and the role of a creator/show runner. Levitan has been writing, producing, directing and creating television comedies for almost 20 years. His credits include Wings, Frasier, The Larry Sanders Show, Just Shoot Me (Creator), and Greg the Bunny. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24205]

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Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor K. 427 - UC Davis Symphony and Chorus

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:00:00 PDT

The UC Davis Symphony and Chorus perform Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, also known as the “Great” Mass. Conducted by Christian Baldini. Series: "UC Davis Symphony and Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24149]

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Philip Glass/Cello Concerto: An Introduction - UCTV Prime Cuts

, 01 01:01:01 PDT

Composer Philip Glass, Cellist Wendy Sutter and conductor Steven Schick introduce La Jolla Symphony’s premiere performance of Glass’ “Concerto for Cello.” Series: "UCTV Prime Cuts" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24243]

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Composer Tan Dun: Water Passion - UCTV Prime Cuts

, 01 01:01:01 PDT

Though perhaps best known for his film scores, including "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," Tan Dun is a prolific and versatile composer whose work fuses conventional instruments, natural sounds,electronics, and Asian and Western idioms into a dynamic, cohesive whole. In this interview Tan Dun discusses the artistic strategies employed in his theatrical oratorio "Water Passion," inspired by Bach's "St. Matthew’s Passion." Series: "UCTV Prime Cuts" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24267]

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From the Studio to the Classroom - The Teaching Artist

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 52:00:00 PDT

Teaching artists, hybrid professionals who link the arts to education and community life, are redefining the roles that the arts can play in public education. Who are teaching artists? Where and how do they work? What new strategies might they offer to help ailing public schools? And, how can schools become generative sites of creative growth for artists, teachers and students? Nick Rabkin, a research affiliate of the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago and the principal investigator of the Teaching Artist Research Project, discusses this new national study of teaching artists and their work in a dozen cities. [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Education] [Show ID: 23822]

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Les Noces - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 80:00:00 PDT

Conductor Steven Schick and choreographer Allyson Green discuss their new interpretation of Les Noces, Stravinksy’s portrait of a pagan Russian folk wedding featuring four pianos, chamber chorus, and members of Tijuana’s Lux Boreal dance troupe. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 23926]

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UC San Diego Jazz Camp: Finale Concert 2012 Highlights

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 76:00:00 PDT

Highlights from the 2012 edition of the Jazz Camp Finale Concert, featuring student ensembles performing standards and new compositions under the direction of distinguished faculty. Series: "UC San Diego Jazz Camp" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 23973]

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Holly Hofmann Ensemble - UC San Diego Jazz Camp 2012

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 68:00:00 PDT

In the finale concert for UC San DIego Jazz Camp 2012, flutist Hoilly Hofmann leads an ensemble of talented students in a performance of standards and new works. Series: "UC San Diego Jazz Camp" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24610]

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Mark Dresser Ensemble - UC San DIego Jazz Camp 2012

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 68:00:00 PDT

In the finale concert for UC San DIego Jazz Camp 2012, renowned bassist and educator Mark Dresser leads a group of talented students in a performance of standards and new works. Series: "UC San Diego Jazz Camp" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24611]

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Charles McPherson Ensemble - UC San Diego Jazz Camp

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 68:00:00 PDT

In the finale concert for UC San Diego Jazz Camp 2012, sax virtuoso Charles McPherson leads a talented group of students in a performance of standards and new works. Series: "UC San Diego Jazz Camp" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24612]

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Gilbert Castellanos Ensemble - UC San Diego Jazz Camp 2012

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 68:00:00 PDT

In the finale concert for UC San Diego Jazz Camp 2012, trumpeter GIlbert Castellanos leads a talented a talented group of students in a performance of standards and new works. Series: "UC San Diego Jazz Camp" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24613]

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David Borgo Ensemble - UC San DIego Jazz Camp 2012

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 68:00:00 PDT

In the finale concert for UC San Diego Jazz Camp 2012, saxophonist and educator David Borgo leads a group of talented students in a performance of standards and new works. Series: "UC San Diego Jazz Camp" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24614]

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Rob Thorsen Ensemble - UC San Diego Jazz Camp 2012

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 68:00:00 PDT

In the finale concert for UC San Diego Jazz Camp 2012, bassist Rob Thorsen leads a group of talented students in a performance of standards and new workds. Series: "UC San Diego Jazz Camp" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24615]

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Gerry Hemingway Ensemble - UC San DIego Jazz Camp 2012

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 68:00:00 PDT

In the finale concert for UC San DIego Jazz Camp 2012, percussionist Gerry Hemingway leads a group of talented students in a performance of standards and new works. Series: "UC San Diego Jazz Camp" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24616]

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The Perspectives Showcase

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 72:00:00 PDT

The Perspectives Showcase is an annual collaboration of student groups on campus, a celebration of the diversity that defines the UC Berkeley community. Featuring music and dance performances from various student groups on campus, this is a chance to explore your perspective. [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 23824]

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