Year at a Glance

  • 30 Jul

    Violin, Viola & Piano Recital, Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival

    Tuesday, July 30, 2024
    12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT
    Lani Hall, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music & via Livestream
    445 Charles E. Young Dr East, 2526 Schoenberg Music Building, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Andrew McIntosh, violin, viola & Steven Vanhauwaert, piano

  • 1 Aug

    Piano Quintets, Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival

    Thursday, August 1, 2024
    12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT
    Lani Hall, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music & via Livestream
    445 Charles E. Young Dr East, 2526 Schoenberg Music Building, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Ambroise Aubrun, violin; Katrin Stamatis, violin; Virginie d’Avezac, viola; Jonathan Ruck, cello; Zachary Deak, piano

  • 6 Aug

    Cello & Piano Recital, Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival

    Tuesday, August 6, 2024
    12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT
    Lani Hall, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music & via Livestream
    445 Charles E. Young Dr East, 2526 Schoenberg Music Building, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Jennifer Kloetzel, cello & Robert Koenig, piano

  • 8 Aug

    ensemble132, Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival

    Thursday, August 8, 2024
    12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT
    Lani Hall, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music & via Livestream
    445 Charles E. Young Dr East, 2526 Schoenberg Music Building, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Maria Ioudenitch, violin; Zhanbo Zheng, viola; Zachary Mowitz, cello

  • 12 Sep

    LA Escena 2024 | Los Angeles Festival of Hispanic Classical Theater

    Thursday, September 12, 2024–Tuesday, September 17, 2024
    7:00 pm PDT – 9:00 pm PDT
    UCLA Nimoy Theater
    1262 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

    UCLA’s Diversifying the Classics will be hosting LA Escena 2024, a festival celebrating Hispanic classical theater, from September 12–17th at the newly renovated Nimoy Theater in Westwood. Come see inventive presentations of Spanish Golden Age works by acclaimed artists from around the world - tickets are free but space is limited, so reserve today! Kicking off National Hispanic Heritage Month,...

  • 28 Sep

    Clark Library Open House and Adopt-A-Book Fair

    Saturday, September 28, 2024
    2:30 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    All are welcome to attend the Open House and Adopt-A-Book Fair at the Clark Library! Explore and enjoy the expansive grounds and historical rooms, and consider adopting a book in the Clark Library’s collection. Donations, which are optional, will provide essential funding for the acquisition, preservation, and conservation of the library’s collections, and directly support the library’s work of caring...

  • 10 Oct

    Appreciation of Kunqu Opera Performance: Techniques and Characteristics

    Thursday, October 10, 2024
    4:00 pm PDT – 6:00 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Organized by Yinghui Wu (University of California, Los Angeles) and Kunqu Opera Society USA Co-sponsored by UCLA Asia Pacific Center and Center for Chinese Studies Kunqu Opera, with a history spanning over 600 years, stands alongside Greek and Sanskrit drama as one of the world's three most ancient theatrical traditions. In Kunqu, there is no sound that is not song,...

  • 17 Oct

    Caribbean Kaleidoscope: Convergence and Transformation in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

    Thursday, October 17, 2024
    4:00 pm PDT – 5:30 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018

    Lecture by Ida Altman, Professor Emerita, University of Florida As Iberians in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries expanded into the Atlantic world they intentionally and unintentionally created conditions for the unprecedented convergence of peoples and cultures in the Caribbean that would transform them and the region as a whole. The dimensions and complexities of that process can be...

  • 18 Oct

    Early Global Caribbean: Conference 1: Convergences

    Friday, October 18, 2024–Saturday, October 19, 2024
    10:00 am PDT – 4:30 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018

    Conference organized by Carla Gardina Pestana (University of California, Los Angeles) and Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Brown University) Co-sponsored by the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World The Caribbean became global through successive aggregations of disparate peoples across a wide span of time. Long before the arrival of Europeans, the Caribbean Sea served as a bridge among...

  • 23 Oct

    Reading Paul Landacre’s Archive with the Clark Collections: California Landscape and the Erasure of Indigeneity

    Wednesday, October 23, 2024
    4:00 pm PDT – 5:30 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018

    Second Annual Spotlight Talk by Johanna Drucker, Distinguished Professor and Breslauer Professor Emerita, Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles Paul Landacre was a wood engraver and artist whose first published work, California Hills (1931), established his reputation within the Fine Press community of Los Angeles. Highly skilled as an engraver, he produced a considerable corpus of acclaimed work, and...

  • 2 Nov

    Cuarteto Casals, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary

    Saturday, November 2, 2024
    2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    New this season: All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person.  Ticket prices: General $55; Senior (age 55+) $45; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, October...

  • 13 Nov

    Funding London’s Elite Music Scene Through the Profits of Slavery in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond: Bio-Bibliographical Work as Reparative History

    Wednesday, November 13, 2024
    4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018

    Nineteenth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade Lecture by David Hunter, Librarian Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin Until eleven years ago, when David Hunter found Handel’s signature on several share transfer slips in the records of the Royal African Company at The National Archives, Kew, London, no one had thought to investigate the ways in...

  • 17 Nov

    Calidore String Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary

    Sunday, November 17, 2024
    2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    New this season: All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person.  Ticket prices: General $55; Senior (age 55+) $45; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, October...

  • 15 Dec

    Balourdet Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary

    Sunday, December 15, 2024
    2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    New this season: All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person.  Ticket prices: General $55; Senior (age 55+) $45; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, November...

  • 10 Jan

    Energy Transitions in Long Modernity

    Friday, January 10, 2025
    10:00 am PST – 5:00 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Conference organized by Robert N. Watson (University of California, Los Angeles), Tiffany Jo Werth (University of California, Davis), and Todd Borlik (Purdue University) Co-sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and the UC Davis Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program The recent turn to the ‘energy humanities’ is only beginning to galvanize scholarship on the material and symbolic...

  • 26 Jan

    Trio Bohémo, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary

    Sunday, January 26, 2025
    2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    New this season: All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person.  Ticket prices: General $55; Senior (age 55+) $45; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, December...

  • 21 Feb

    Early Global Caribbean: Conference 2: Convictions

    Friday, February 21, 2025–Saturday, February 22, 2025
    10:00 am PST – 5:00 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018

    Conference organized by Carla Gardina Pestana (University of California, Los Angeles) and Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Brown University) Co-sponsored by the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World The diverse peoples who converged on the Caribbean before 1700 held a range of differing beliefs, ideas about the natural world, and understandings of social, political, and spiritual order. Considering...

  • 2 Mar

    Ariel Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary

    Sunday, March 2, 2025
    2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    New this season: All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person.  Ticket prices: General $55; Senior (age 55+) $45; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, February...

  • 14 Mar

    Cases and Scale in Historiography

    Friday, March 14, 2025
    10:00 am PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Conference organized by Michael Osman and Cristóbal Amunátegui (University of California, Los Angeles) In the last few decades, debates stemming from the science and history “wars” have called attention to the ways in which cases are constructed and proven across disciplines. This has led to questions about the nature and selection of evidence, the role of scale, and the function...

  • 11 Apr

    Early Global Caribbean: Conference 3: Materialities

    Friday, April 11, 2025–Saturday, April 12, 2025
    10:00 am PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018

    Conference organized by Carla Gardina Pestana (University of California, Los Angeles) and Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Brown University) Co-sponsored by the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World The tangible realities of daily life and the patterns of exchange in the Caribbean and the other Atlantic regions integrated into the Caribbean’s orbit enhance our understanding of the local...

  • 27 Apr

    Borromeo String Quartet, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary

    Sunday, April 27, 2025
    2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    New this season: All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person.  Ticket prices: General $55; Senior (age 55+) $45; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, March...

  • 3 May

    The Art of Duo: A Journey through Europe to the USA from 1700 to 1930

    Saturday, May 3, 2025
    2:00 pm PDT – 3:30 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Ambroise Aubrun, violin Steven Vanhauwaert, piano “ A Journey through Europe to the USA from 1700 to 1930” invites you to an exploration of the violin and piano duo’s rich history. Each piece performed will reflect the evolving styles and cultural influences that shaped the duo's repertoire from the baroque era to the early 20th century. The performance is complemented...

  • 18 May

    Miró Quartet with Masumi Per Rostad, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary

    Sunday, May 18, 2025
    2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    New this season: All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person.  Ticket prices: General $55; Senior (age 55+) $45; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, April...