Past Events Winter 2007 |
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Dalí: 1904-2005 This exhibit featured twenty-five reproductions by the renowned Catalan Surrealist artist, Salvador Dalí . It included a selection of his most emblematic works from the collection of the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, bequeathed by the artist himself, together with other masterpieces. The reproductions display was supplemented by examples of his illustrated books, autobiographical works, exhibition catalogs, writings, and other published primary sources from the UCLA Libraries. The traveling exhibit was organized by the by the Ministry of Governance and Public Administration of the Government of Catalonia, in collaboration with the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, to mark the centenary of the artist’s birth. It was co-curated by Belén Vincéns Sáiz, a UCLA graduate student from Catalonia, who is majoring in the interdepartmental Islamic Studies program. Other support came from the Institut Ramon Llull.
Photos by C. Brown
Exhibit opening and lecture: Friday, January 26, 2007 Approximately 100 faculty, students and members of the Southern California Catalan community attended an exhibit opening which was sponsored by The Barcelonists: Friends of Catalunya at UCLA, and Casal dels Catalans de California. Along with live Catalan folk guitar music and refreshments, participants listened to the featured lecture: “Salvador Dalí and the Art of Provocation” by Carmen García de la Rasilla, University of New Hampshire.
Photos by C. Brown |
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Three Weddings & A Funeral: Celebratory Music of Guillaume Du Fay (1347-1474) & His Contemporaries - “Tapestry” The Da Camera Society of Mount St. Mary’s College Saturday, February 3, 2007 The Da Camera Society returned to Powell for the third time, this time featuring the early vocal music group Tapestry. This was a ticketed event, part of the Chamber Music in Historic Sites series. A small accompanying exhibit of books on the period about northern Italian weddings and marriage, Italian and Near Eastern families featured in the concert, music and instruments of the period, and featured composers was assembled from the UCLA Libraries collections, including the Music Library Special Collections.
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4th Annual Romeo & Juliet Italian Renaissance Ball Faculty, staff, students and visitors learned dances from the Renaissance period, courtesy special guest instructor Emeritus faculty Emma Lewis Thomas. Students from her class, GE Cluster 23B “Inside the Performing Arts”, also attended, and provided an interlude of harp music, which sounded lovely in the Rotunda.
Photos by C. Brown |
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5th Annual President’s Ball Over one hundred participants, including students from GE Cluster 23B, learned to dance late 18th century dances such as the waltz, polka, mazurka, gallop, schottische, redowa and the Virginia Reel. |
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Chants et Chansons: An Evening of French Choral Music Friday, March 9, 2007 In a stunning concert, the UCLA Chamber Singers appeared for the first time in the current ‘Powell Music the Rotunda’ series. Conductor Paul Neal presented this recital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting, under Professor Donald Neuen. Joined by an octet of members of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, L’Octuor, the twenty member Chamber Singers performed a program of choral works, some rarely heard, by Debussy, Binchois, di Lasso, Saint-Saëns, Morton Lauridsen, Dufay, Pierre Certon, Clement Janequin, Pierre Passereau, and Neal’s dissertation topic, Vincent D’Indy. |
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