![]() World premiere of Dear Freedom Rider by Diane White-Clayton, written for 11 UCLA student singers who symbolize the first 1961 group of Freedom Riders Part two: Gerald Cohen‘s I felt my legs were praying (Psalm 35, Abraham Joshua Heschel) Jared Jenkins‘s Democracy (Langston Hughes) featuring India Carney Emmy Award-winning composer Joel Thompson‘s America Will Be (Langston Hughes, Emma Lazarus) Works performed by Tonality, conducted by Alexander Lloyd Blake: World premiere of Arturo O’Farrill‘s I Dream a World for trio, string quartet, and singer India Carney The conversation will be moderated by Wayne Winborne, the executive director of the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University, Newark. ![]() He currently tours with the London-based Darius Brubeck Quartet. Darius, the oldest son of Dave Brubeck, is an educator who initiated the first Jazz Studies Degree offered by an African university. ![]() 26 in Royce Hall, join us for a conversation with composer, teacher, and musician Darius Brubeck, Grammy-winning pianist, composer, and professor of global jazz studies and music at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Arturo O’Farrill, and journalist and critic Larry Blumenfeld ( Wall Street Journal, Daily Beast, and others). Pre-concert CONVERSATION, schoenberg hall “When King said, ‘We must live together as brothers,’ people didn’t hear it. 27, a daylong public conference featured prominent scholars and experts exploring the historical and cultural connections of Black and Jewish communities in the United States, intimate analyses of Brubeck’s Gates of Justice, and the contemporary relevance of music to social justice. A second performance of the entire program took place on Feb. Preceding was a program of six recent and socially conscious works by contemporary composers, including six-time Grammy-winning pianist, composer, and music educator Arturo O’Farrill. For the first time ever, Brubeck’s sons performed as the accompanying jazz trio. 26-28, 2023, centered around The Gates of Justice, jazz legend Dave Brubeck’s rarely presented large-scale sacred composition.Ī historic performance of The Gates of Justice took place on Feb. The Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music presents a series of concerts and dialogue bringing artists and academics together to dive deep into issues of race and social justice in the modern world.
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