As part of the World Music Series, Victor Bell will direct the UCSB Gospel Choir in a performance of traditional and contemporary songs drawn from African American religious traditions on Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at 12 pm in the UCSB Music Bowl. The World Music Series is co-presented by the UCSB MultiCultural Center and the Ethnomusicology Program in the Department of Music.

 

UCSB graduate student Cloe Gentile (Musicology) will present a talk titled "The Pan-American Bolero and María Grever’s Idealized Woman" on Wednesday, May 29, 2019 from 3:30-4:45 pm in Room 1145 in the Music Building. Research supported by the Graduate Diversity Fellowship sponsored through the Graduate Research Mentorship Program. Presented by UCSB Music History and Theory Forum.

 

The UCSB Chamber Choir and Women’s Chorus will present a collaborative concert with the UCSB Percussion Ensemble, UCSB Young Artists String Quartet, and the San Marcos High School Madrigal Singers on Friday, May 31, 2019 at 7:30 pm at Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Santa Barbara. The program, titled “BANG, SCRAPE, and SHOUT!” will feature contemporary and traditional pieces for strings, percussion, and choir. Tyler Reece will conduct the UCSB Women’s Chorus in a program of works by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Ola Gjeilo, Edward Elgar, Aaron Copland, Ned Rorem, Thomas Morley, Thomas Weelkes, and Henry Cowell. Daniel Newman-Lessler will conduct the UCSB Chamber Choir in works by Caroline Shaw, Ignacio Jerusalem, W.A. Mozart, and Leonard Bernstein. The UCSB Percussion Ensemble (directed by UCSB faculty member Jon Nathan) will perform Bob Becker’s Mudra and the San Marcos High School Madrigal Singers (directed by Eleni Pantages) will join the UCSB Chamber Choir for a performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms.