Armenian Architectural Heritage Endangered 
June 20 – August 31, 2005

This exhibit presented fifty images of twenty-five sites of historic architectural and cultural interest in the traditional Armenian homeland, now governed by the Republic of Armenia, Turkey, Iran, and the autonomous region of Nakhichevan in the Republic of Azerbaijan. The exhibit traced
the background of the sites, including their construction and function; their cultural significance; and issues of preservation to ensure that the sites can be appreciated and investigated by future generations.

The exhibit was organized by Research on Armenian Architecture, USA, and sponsored by the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and the Armenian Studies Program.The exhibit opening on June 20th featured a lecture by NELC Professor and exhibit organizer Peter Cowe and drawing an audience from the UCLA campus and Armenian community.

Rounce & Coffin Club – 2004 Western Books: 63nd Annual Exhibition
July 1 – July 22, 2005

3rd Annual Revolutionary Ball
Saturday, July 9, 2005

Sixty-four UCLA students, staff and members of the Los Angeles community attended this tribute to dances of the American and French revolution including the minuet and Virginia reel.

Participants celebrated early Los Angeles (1781-1925) by learning and dancing the Spanish waltz, El Guion, Ay Susana, El Borrego and other dances of the period.

Seducing America: Selling the Middle Eastern Mystique 
September 6 – December 16, 2005

This exhibit displayed but a portion of the multifaceted and mesmerizing collection of Middle Eastern Americana acquired by Jonathan Friedlander, Assistant Director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies. "Orientalism surrounds us. It's ingrained in pop culture. We import it, appropriate it and continually reinvent it for mass consumption. This is all about fantasies and the fantastic -- not encounters with real Middle Easterners."

Highlights included early 20th century sheet music, campy record album covers, magazine advertisements, packaging for coffee and cigarettes, pulp fiction and children's books, dolls, Las Vegas souvenirs, DVD's and videos, board and electronic games, and entertainment informed by the Persian Gulf and Iraqi conflicts including a Saddam Hussein voodoo doll. A sequel of book materials is planned for late Fall 2006.

Other curators included Erik Friedl and Rahul Bhushan.

Photo by E. Friedl	Photo by E. Friedl
Photo by E. Friedl	Erik Friedl, Jonathan Friedlander, Rahul Bhushan Photo by C. Brown

Exhibit-related lectures:

“Bagdad and Hollywood” by Professor Michael Cooperson, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, October 28, 2005

Michael Cooperson with student. Photo by E. Friedl

“One Thousand and One Bites: Food in the Tales” by Los Angeles Times food writer Charles Perry, November 5, 2005
co-sponsored by UCLA Library Development

Charles Perry Photo by E. Friedl	Jonathan Friedlander demonstrates the music listening station. Photo by E. Friedl

“Rebecca Came Back From Mecca and Other Follies from the Annals of American Orientalism” by Jonathan Friedlander, December 1, 2005

Madeleine Comora and Jonathan Friedlander Photo by E. Friedl

4th Annual Valentino’s Tango and Ragtime Ball
Friday, October 28
Saturday, October 29
137 students, staff, community members and UCLA parents attending Parents Weekend festivities enjoyed learning the tango, waltz, foxtrot and various “animal” dances. Participants were also treated to a brief video of Rudolph Valentino dancing the tango from the 1921 silent film “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.”

Dance Instructors Cynthia Harper and James Zimmer Photo by C. Brown

UCLA graduate and Claremont McKenna doctoral student Payam Larijani performed Allemande, Sarabande, and Bouree by J.S. Bach; Preludes no. 1, 2, 3 & 4 by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Gnossienne no. 1, 2 & 3 by Erik Satie; Isaac Albeniz’ Rumors de la Caleta (malaguena) and Leyenda Sakura by Yoquiro Yocoh for an audience of eighty students.

Photo by C. Brown

5th Annual Waltz Through Time
Saturday, November 19, 2005
This popular annual historical dance was attended by 103, and featured waltzes beginning with the Regency period dances of Jane Austen’s time to the present day. Special guest teacher Michael Espinoza taught the Argentine waltz or “Vals Cruzado.”

Photo by C. Brown

Eric Wang, Harpsichord
Friday, December 2, 2005
Evening Concert – 8pm

UCLA Department of Musicology graduate student Eric Wang returned for his second appearance in the Powell Library music series before an enthusiastic crowd of ninety. His program on two harpsichords featured Joseph Haydn's Sonata in G Major, Hob. XVI: 27; Francois Couperin's Piéces de Clavecin; Toccata in D Major BWV 912 by J.S. Bach; and four sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti. Eric also offered background comments throughout his program.

Photo by C. Brown

Collegium Musicum, Early Music Workshop
Elisabeth Le Guin, Director
Friday, December 9, 2005
Afternoon Concert – 2:30pm

A concert just before final exams attracted forty audience members for a combined program of dance and dance-song in the 14th century, and 18th century song. Dana Howell (krummhorn), Lucine Tarakdjian (organ), Michael Tessler, and Elisabeth Le Guin (viols) performed vocal and instrumental works by composers Guillaume de Machaut and Francesco Landini. Kalpa Bhattacharjee, soprano, Charles Stratford, bassoon, and Ikumi Hiraiwa, harpsichord, presented Baroque songs by Handel and Telemann.

Photo by C. Brown	Photo by C. Brown