Powell Library Rotunda
Music in the Rotunda
UCLA Spikes: United Cello Lovers Association
Antonio Lysy, Director
Friday, November 20
8 p.m.
In this group's first performance in the Powell Library Rotunda, Professor Antonio Lysy will perform along with his students.
The program will include Bachianas Brasileiras no. 5 for Soprano and Cello Ensemble by Heitor Villa Lobos, "Les Rois Mages" from the oratorio El Pessebre'by Pablo Casals, Elegy by Peter Golub, Andante Cantabile by Tchaikovsky, and the theme from "The Simpsons" by Danny Elfman.
Admission is free, and seating is unreserved.
Powell Library Rotunda
Music in the Rotunda
Jubilate!: UCLA Early Music Ensemble
Elisabeth Le Guin, Director
Saturday, November 21
8 p.m.
The newly re-formed UCLA Early Music Ensemble returns to the Powell Library Building with a program of Italian and New-World polychoral sacred music and canzoni from around 1600, including works by composers Juan de Araujo, Giovanni Paolo Cima, Giovanni Gabrieli, and other Mexican and Latin American composers. With the UCLA Brass Ensemble, they will joyfully explore the splendid acoustics of the rotunda.
Admission is free, and seating is unreserved.
Charles E. Young Research Library
Author Lecture
Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging
Tuesday, December 1
3 p.m.
Tritia Toyota, UCLA adjunct assistant professor of anthropology and Asian American studies, will talk about her new book, which offers a groundbreaking, richly detailed study of how naturalized Chinese in Southern California have become highly involved civic and political actors. A booksigning will follow her talk, and copies will be available for purchase.
Admission is free, and seating is unreserved. The event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Department of Asian American Studies, Charles E. Young Research Library, Department of Anthropology, Center for Chinese Studies, and the UC AAPI MultiCampus Research Program.
UCLA Faculty Center
Programs in Medical Classics
Women Doctors and the Social Boundaries of the American Medical Association, 1860-80
Tuesday, December 1
6 p.m.
This talk by Douglas M. Haynes, associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, will be introduced by Marcia L. Meldrum, research associate in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.
Admission to the talk is free, and no reservations are required.
