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Powell Music
Concerts in the Rotunda feature student and faculty groups from the UCLA
Departments of Music, Musicology and Ethnomusicology. This series was created
to give student music groups another venue to perform on the UCLA campus.
These concerts are free and open to the public. Tickets are not needed. Tuesday, October 21 Perennial favorite and alumnus Payam Larijani returns to Powell. He will play a new Persian classical piece Gol-e-Gandom (‘wheat flower;’ traditional/anonymous), arranged by Lily Afshar. Also included will be Prelude no.1 by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Rumors de la Caleta by Isaac Albeniz, Sakura by Yoquiro Yocoh, and works by Erik Satie. Payam is a three time winner of the Randy Rhodes Guitar Competition at UCLA where he studied under Peter Yates. He has a masters’ degree from Cal State Los Angeles in commercial music and electric guitar. He performs music of all styles and writes his own arrangements and transcriptions for guitar and voice. For a sample of Payam's repertoire, visit his recording website at: http://www.mp3.com/payamlarijani.
“My Great Consolation:” A Concert Honoring Mary Shelley In 1823, upon returning to England after the death of her beloved husband poet Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley wrote to her friend: “My great consolation here is music; the music with which Vincenzo [Novello] & his friends provide me…” As part of the festivities surrounding the opening of the exhibition “Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature” in the Young Research Library, College Library and Biomedical Library, well known harpsichordist and fortepianist Susanne Shapiro will perform music that Mary Shelley herself knew on the fortepiano. Included will be Sonata in F, K332 by Mozart, La Stahl and 12 Variations on Folie d’Espagne by C.P.E. Bach, Joseph Haydn's Sonata in A-flat, Hob. XVI / 46, and Sonatina in A Minor by Kuhlau.
Monday, January 26 This new "series within a series" is sponsored by students from the UCLA Department of Music. For their inaugural concert in Powell, they will be performing music from the 20th century, including some French composers such as Debussy. Featured will be an oboe and vocal duo, flute, reed trio, guitar, and "clapping music" by composer Steve Reich, all well suited to the resonant Rotunda acoustics.
Friday, January 30 The UCLA
women's a cappella ensemble Random Voices has established itself firmly on
campus and throughout the area, with members winning awards at last year's
International Competition of Collegiate A Cappella. Included in their program
will be "Hotel California" by the Eagles and "Hold On" by
Wilson Phillips. This is their first appearance in Powell.
Vierra is currently a Ph.D. student in
music at UCLA studying under Peter Yates. He is a past winner of the Randy
Rhodes Guitar Competition. This is his second appearance in Powell. Included
will be compositions by Heitor Villa-Lobos, J.S.
Bach and traditional Irish folk music. Friday,
March 5 Una Voce Risonante:
16th Century Venetian Winds, Brass and Song UCLA
Early Music Workshop Under the direction of UCLA
Department of Musicology faculty Elisabeth Le Guin,
the UCLA collegium musicum
returns to perform 16th century Venetian polychoral
and antiphonal music of Gabrieli and others in the
splendid Powell acoustics.
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