Dean of The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts David Rosenboom is the subject of a full-length feature titled “Sounding the Cosmos” in the September issue of the influential London-based…
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EventAugust 19, 2014
Tonight (Aug. 19), Mexican-American composer and CalArts alumnus Hector Armienta’s (Music BFA 85) newest song cycle opera Cuentos de Peregrinacíon (Tales of Pilgrimage) premieres at the Teatro Degollado in Guadalajara, Mexico. The…
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CalArts composer Todd Lerew (Music MFA 14) has been named the winner of the American Composers Forum’s (ACF) 2014 National Composition Contest. Open to composers enrolled in graduate and undergraduate institutions in the United States,…
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EventAugust 9, 2014
On Saturday (Aug. 9), recent graduate Arielle Deem (Music BFA 14) and her band perform at Bootleg Theater in celebration of the release of its debut album, No Place Like Now. With Deem…
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EventJuly 26 - 27, 2014
Earlier this month, Native Strategies, a Los Angeles-based network of performance art makers, producers and critical thinkers, began its month-long residency at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). Titled N (Enter) S, the summer series features a…
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Charlie Haden, celebrated jazz bassist, composer, faculty and founder of the Jazz Studies Program at The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts in 1982, passed away on Friday (July 11)….
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EventJuly 11 - 12, 2014
There are plenty of opportunities to see what faculty of The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts have been up to this summer. Piano faculty Vicki Ray gives a concert at…
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EventJuly 12, 2014
Above, Kneebody performs ‘Lowell’ last fall at the Blue Whale in Los Angeles. The jazz, funk, rock and electronic-influenced band, Kneebody, performs on Saturday (July 12) at SubCulture in New…
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EventJuly 4, 2014
Celebrated bassist and CalArts faculty Alphonso Johnson, who has performed for the likes of the Weather Report, Santana and Michael Jackson, takes the stage with super group Night Train Music…
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EventJuly 5, 2014
On Saturday (July 5) at 9 pm, the Jon Armstrong Jazz Orchestra, which includes 17 CalArtians, celebrates the release of its debut album, Farewell, on Orenda Records with a show at the Blue Whale…
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