UCLA Summer 2023 with MUSIC and Friends

No need to beat the LA traffic and drive to LADT or Hollywood. We can find exceptional music right here at UCLA. Just a few FREE and amazing chamber music performances to announce and review. We are in the middle of The Henry J. BRUMAN SUMMER Chamber Music Festival 2023. All four concerts are held in the intimate 134-seat Lani Hall Noon-1:00- PM. Exception was concert on August 9th 2023 !!

THE W.A. CLARK Memorial Library -- UCLA
Among my favorite chamber music settings in Los Angeles

QUIZ: Who was William Andrews Clark Jr.?

Yesterday, August 9th, we were treated with a special MARTIN CHALIFOUR & FRIENDS performance in the wonderful UCLA garden-like setting. Meeting & greeting old and new friends is always interesting. 

Martin Chalifour, LAPHIL Concertmaster, with Milos and our two
granddaughters
The BRUMAN SUMMER Chamber Music Festival 2023
Photo credits: Zorana Ercegovac (Chair, Music Section)

The performance took place in front of the UCLA's School of Music -- the audience enjoyed the program: Joseph Haydn String Quartet Op. 50 No. 6 in D major (1787)

Edvard Grieg Quartet, composed almost hundred years later (1878). 

Due to gentle drizzle and fire emergency conditions, the full concert was held in front of The Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA. Lots of attendees loved this unexpected en plain air event, however most of us stood for over an hour under the colonnade of the northern portico of the Schoenberg Music Building.

CUDOS to the Artistic Director Ambroise Aubrun,
the Bruin and Associate Professor of Violin at the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
with Milos, and our two granddaughters (visiting us from Dallas)
Photo credits: Zorana Ercegovac (Chair, Music Section)

Concerts like the BRUMAN's are also a wonderful time to (re)connect and spend some time with friends, the UCLA community on campus. Here are some of our (Music Section) friends during the event.

Thalia and Lydia enjoying a pre-concert time with 
Joy, Lorraine, and other dear friends.
Photo credits: Zorana Ercegovac (Chair, Music Section)

                                        The music program of BRUMAN's first concert on August 2nd was performed by   The Felici Piano Trio -- the program included: 

                                       W. A. Mozart's Piano Trio in G major, K. 564 (1788)

                                       J. Brahms' Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 (1861)

Rebecca Hang, violin; Brian Schuldt, cello; and Steven Vanhauwaert

Steven and Rebecca with Friends are home-based in the Eastern Sierras

The second concert in the BRUMAN Summer Chamber Music Fest series was held on August 3rd, with Mozart and Brahms Piano Quartets.

Ambrose Aubrun, D.M.A., Artistic Director, with
Zachary Deak, piano; Virginie d'Avezac, violin, and Sophie Chauvenet, cello

UPCOMING CONCERTS feature Martin Chalifour, Principal Concertmaster LAPHIL, August 9th 2023. 

For details, see https://www.1718.ucla.edu/events/martin-chalifour-friends/

Meanwhile, let's treat ourselves to Concertmaster Martin Chalifour's home recital from his living room: 

martin chalifour at home

In parallel, lots of vibrant music and artistic scapes were going on: the nearby series of Taylor Swift concerts at So-Fi stadium in LA, galleries and installations at LACMA, The Getty Museum, Hammer Museum, both locations of Houser & Wirth, the Hollywood Bowl events, and so much more. More than 100 attendees gathered to listen Chalifour & Friends, under drizzle, with no chairs, but glad to have a chance to listen to exceptional artists and the program. Some of us continued to chat, share our summer experiences, and sip at the Faculty Club across the street.