Past Events Spring 2004

Words...by UCLA Poets: an exhibit celebrating National Poetry Month
April 2004

This exhibit featured poetry by UCLA faculty, librarians, and students. The featured poets were Lawrence Grobel, Joy Harjo, Harryette Mullen, and Stephen Yenser from the English Department; Walter K. Lew; Jo Anna Mixpe Ley from the Cesar Chavez Center; and UCLA librarians Hao Phan and Bruce Whiteman. Students whose work was on display were Amaranth Borsuk, Eric Gudas, and Frank Mundo,

Poetry readings were also held in Ackerman Union, B-Level at Noon on Thursdays, with some of the above poets participated.

Mondays @ One Concert
Monday, February 19, 2004
Afternoon Concert – 1pm

This was the Powell second concert in this series featuring students from the UCLA Department of Music. For the first time in Powell, trumpets sounded! Several movements from “Fantasia for Seven Trumpets” by Eric Ewazen featured members of the UCLA Trumpet Studio. This served as a call to those in the library to come listen to the rest of the program. “Four Dances for Flute and Violin” by Louis Moyse was performed by Rebecca Kappen (violin) and Mya Caruso (flute). Classical guitarist Heday Mercury amazed listeners with his interpretation of J.S. Bach’s “Prelude from Lute Suite No. 4” and “Variations on a Theme by Mozart” by Sor. Flautist Maya Caruso returned to perform Jean Rivier’s “Oiseaux Tendres.”

56th Annual Robert B. and Blanche Campbell Student Book Collection Competition
Winning Collections
May 4 – May 28, 2004

The winning book collections by graduate and undergraduate students were on display in the Powell Rotunda. Names of the winners and their collections are listed on the Campbell website:
http://www.library.ucla.edu/committees/campbell/text/win.htm

Regina Caeli: Sixteenth-Century Sacred Music
Musica Humana: The UCLA Early Music Collective
Louis Niebur, Elizabeth Altman, Jonathan Greenburg, Sara Gross, Barbara Hui, Victoria Meng, Elizabeth Morgan, Caroline Polk O’Meara, Holley Replogle, and Erica Scheinberg.

Friday, May 7, 2004
Evening Concert – 8pm

Long-time Musica Humana member (and for the last two years, their coordinator) Louis Niebur joined his fellow students for his last concert at UCLA featuring some of the most splendid Renaissance choral sacred music ever composed. Around a humorous yet somewhat macabre sub-theme of composers who died of the plague, composers featured were Robert White, Adrian Willaert, Philippe Verdelot, Jacob Obrecht, Francisco Guerrero and Duarte Lôbo. A highlight of the evening was an ethereal “Agnus Dei” from Obrecht’s Missa Maria Zart which lasted about a quarter of an hour.

Student Exhibits

The following three exhibits were curated by students in Professor Paul Von Blum's "African American Art" class, CM112D:

The Struggle for Civil Rights: A Photographic Journey
May 24 - 30, 2004
Alissa Monticelli, curator

This exhibit featured the work of photographers Gordon Parks (1912- ), James Van Der Zee (1886-1893), Matthew Lewis, Jr. (1930- ), Moneta J. Sleet, Jr. (1926-1996), Robert S. Scurlock (1916-1994), and Marvin and Morgan Smith (Morgan 1910-1993; Marvin 1910- ).

Fine Photography Art Exhibit, Featuring Roland Charles and Frank Jackson
June 1 – June 4, 2004

Nahn Jiminian, Adam Monsell, and Roz de Sybel, curators

Community Diversity
June 7 – 18, 2004
Sabrina Krewin, curator.

This exhibit honored the work of participating students from the 99 th Street Elementary School. For the opening, parents and students from the school came and the students performed contemporary dances. Also, a quartet composed of UCLA students performed eclectic music.

Photos by C. Brown

Also, in the ground floor stacks:

AP-Eyes: One Love, One Struggle
by CAPSA (Concerned Asian and Pacific Islander Students for Action) Jackie Pon, Coordinator
May 24 – 30, 2004

This art exhibit was concerned with unfair labor practices in seven Koreatown supermarkets and in support of their right to organize. Local artists featured were: Mark Canto, Sotheary Bou, Kristen Oshiro, Alex J. Lee, Derrick Kato, Rebecca E. Baroma, Leslie Dale, and Benji Chang.

Early Music Workshop - Elisabeth Le Guin, Director
Jaime Azcárraga, Kalpa Bhattcharjee, Kay Braden, Elisabeth Le Guin, viola da gamba/tenor
Susan McClary, Christeta Nini, Jesse Rosenman, Yolanda Valdivia, Marina Yaloyan.
Friday, June 4, 2004
Afternoon Concert – 2:30pm

Students from Music History 28C performed choral pieces from J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion, Tommaso Albinoni’s Sonata in A minor for recorder and basso continuo, Les barricades mysterieux by François Couperin, three songs by Henry Purcell, and Handel’s “Ah, mio cor” from Ariodane. Professors Le Guin and McClary played two recercadas on O felici occhi miei by Diego Ortiz.

Photos by C. Brown

Historical Ballroom Dances in the Rotunda
Saturday, June 5, 2004
7th Annual Jane Austen Dance

Special guest instructor John Hertz once again provided expert background and instruction in Regency period dance for this popular annual event.