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SUMMARY:Quatuor Danel\, Chamber Music at the Clark
DESCRIPTION:All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online\, via telephone\, or in person. \nTicket prices: General $60; Senior (age 55+) $50; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. \nTickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday\, September 8\, 2026 at Noon. \nSeating at the Clark Library is limited\, and tickets are likely to sell out within a few minutes. \nOnline: https://ucla.evenue.net/events/CTO\nTelephone: (310) 825-2101\nIn person: Central Ticket Office windows located on the UCLA campus at 325 Westwood Plaza (ground level\, across from Pauley Pavilion). \nIf any tickets for this concert remain unsold\, they will be available for purchase at the Clark Library on the day of the event. Any available day-of tickets will be sold on a first-come\, first-served basis by a Central Ticket Office representative beginning at 1:00 p.m. Payment will be accepted via credit card only. For inquiries\, please call or email the Central Ticket Office at (310) 825-2101 or cto@tickets.ucla.edu\, Monday–Friday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. \n\nProgram \nSergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)\nString Quartet No. 1 in B Minor\, op. 50 \nMieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996)\nString Quartet No. 2\, op. 3 \nDmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)\nString Quartet No. 3 in F Major\, op. 73 \nQuatuor Danel\nMarc Danel\, violin\nGilles Millet\, violin\nVlad Bogdanas\, viola\nYovan Markovitch\, cello \nCelebrated for its bold and vibrant performance style\, the Quatuor Danel has been a prominent force on the international classical music scene for over thirty years. The ensemble is acclaimed for its deeply personal interpretations of string quartet cycles by Haydn\, Beethoven\, Schubert\, Shostakovich\, and Weinberg. Their recordings\, particularly of Shostakovich and Weinberg\, have received international accolades and defined the group’s benchmark achievements. \nThe Quartet’s 2023–24 North American tour included appearances with Aspect Chamber Music Series\, Peoples’ Symphony Concerts\, Music Toronto\, Chamber Music in Oklahoma\, and McGill International String Quartet Academy. They also perform regularly across Europe and Asia\, with recent engagements in France\, Germany\, Portugal\, Taiwan\, and Japan. \nUniquely\, the Quartet has worked closely with Irina Shostakovich and the late Valentin Berlinsky (Borodin Quartet)\, refining their profound approach to Russian repertoire. Their recent Shostakovich quartet cycle\, recorded at Gewandhaus Leipzig and released on Accentus\, has received widespread praise. \nThe Quartet was the first to record the complete quartets of Mieczysław Weinberg and continues to champion his music alongside works by major contemporary composers including Sofia Gubaidulina\, Wolfgang Rihm\, and Jörg Widmann. \nRecent recording projects include Tchaikovsky’s quartets\, Franck’s Piano Quintet with Paavali Jumppanen\, and plans for a full Beethoven cycle set for release in 2027 with Accentus and the Gewandhaus Leipzig. \nA strong advocate for young musicians\, Quatuor Danel has served as artist-in-residence at the University of Manchester since 2005\, where it regularly teaches and mentors emerging string quartets. \n\nChamber Music at the Clark is made possible by The Ahmanson Foundation\, under the auspices of Lee Walcott; Henry J. Bruman Endowment for Chamber Music; The Colburn Foundation; Ms. Brenda F. Anderson; Martha Bardach/Bardach Robson Family Charitable Foundation; Catherine Glynn Benkaim\, Ph.D. and Ms. Barbara Timmer; Rogers Brubaker\, Ph.D; Johanna R. Drucker\, Ph.D.; The Mari and Ed Edelman Charitable Fund for Music and Public Service; Dr. Daniel J. Fink and Dr. Ruth F. Cousineau; Susan S. Harris\, Ph.D. and Mr. Mark J. Harris; Judith L. Hellinger; Dr. David E. Lopez; Dr. Martin H. Mach and Dr. Susan P. Mach; Mr. Bernie Mendes and Ms. Elaine Mendes; Mrs. Janet K. Minami; Mr. Jeffrey L. Nagin and Mrs. Bette I. Nagin; Jeanne Robson\, Ph.D. ; Dr. Thomas Rosenthal and Ms. Susan M. Rosenthal; Dr. Patricia Bates Simun and Mr. Richard V. Simun Memorial Fund; Professor Bronwen Wilson; and Mr. Robert A. Young and Mrs. Roberta J. Husted Young. \nPlease see here for more information about our chamber music programs. \n\nPhoto credit: Courtesy of Quatuor Danel.
URL:https://dev.1718.ucla.edu/event/quatuor-danel/
LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
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SUMMARY:Horszowski Trio\, Chamber Music at the Clark
DESCRIPTION:All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online\, via telephone\, or in person. \nTicket prices: General $60; Senior (age 55+) $50; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. \nTickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday\, September 8\, 2026 at Noon. \nSeating at the Clark Library is limited\, and tickets are likely to sell out within a few minutes. \nOnline: https://ucla.evenue.net/events/CTO\nTelephone: (310) 825-2101\nIn person: Central Ticket Office windows located on the UCLA campus at 325 Westwood Plaza (ground level\, across from Pauley Pavilion). \nIf any tickets for this concert remain unsold\, they will be available for purchase at the Clark Library on the day of the event. Any available day-of tickets will be sold on a first-come\, first-served basis by a Central Ticket Office representative beginning at 1:00 p.m. Payment will be accepted via credit card only. For inquiries\, please call or email the Central Ticket Office at (310) 825-2101 or cto@tickets.ucla.edu\, Monday–Friday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. \n\nProgram \nJohannes Brahms (1833-1897)\nPiano Trio No. 2 in C Major\, op. 87 \nArnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)\nSechs kleine Klavierstücke\, op.19. Arranged for piano trio by Rieko Aizawa \nFranz Schubert (1797-1828)\nPiano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major\, D. 929 \nHorszowski Trio\nJesse Mills\, violin\nOle Akahoshi\, cello\nRieko Aizawa\, piano \nGiving performances that are “lithe\, persuasive” (The New York Times)\, “eloquent and enthralling” (The Boston Globe)\, and described as “the most compelling American group to come on the scene” (The New Yorker)\, the Horszowski Trio has quickly become a vital force in the international chamber music world. Since their debut performance in New York City in 2011\, they have toured extensively throughout North America\, Europe\, the Far East\, and India\, traversing the extensive oeuvre of traditional piano trio repertoire and introducing audiences to new music that they have commissioned and premiered. \nThey have performed at the 92nd Street Y in New York City; the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia; Schubert Club in Saint Paul\, Minnesota; Spivey Hall in Atlanta; Bowdoin Music Festival in Maine; UCLA in Los Angeles; venues in Boston\, San Francisco\, and Canada; London’s Wigmore Hall; at Dresden’s Moritzburg Festival and throughout Germany; and on several tours in Japan. Their recording of the complete piano trios by Robert Schumann on AVIE Records has received tremendous acclaim: “great care and affection” (BBC Radio); “intoxicating” (Gramophone); “exciting and deeply felt” (Strings); “fresh\, supple and fantastic” (The Strad). \nThe Trio takes its inspiration from the musicianship\, integrity\, and humanity of the pre-eminent pianist Mieczysław Horszowski (1892–1993); the ensemble’s pianist\, Rieko Aizawa\, was Horszowski’s last pupil at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. Described as “power players” by the Los Angeles Times\, the Horszowski Trio’s repertoire includes works by many of the composers with whom Maestro Horszowski had personal interaction\, including Gabriel Fauré\, Enrique Granados\, Bohuslav Martinů\, Maurice Ravel\, Camille Saint-Saëns\, and Heitor Villa-Lobos. The Horszowski Trio’s debut recording — an album of works by Gabriel Fauré\, Camille Saint-Saëns\, and Vincent d’Indy on the Bridge label —was released in 2014 and dedicated to the memory of Mieczysław Horszowski. Gramophone praised the “exemplary performance” of the “highly accomplished group\,” concluding\, “I long to hear more of the Horszowski Trio.” \nThe ensemble has performed the complete cycles of piano trios by Ludwig van Beethoven\, Robert Schumann\, and Johannes Brahms. They also actively cultivate hidden treasures from the repertoire\, works by Arno Babajanyan\, Leonard Bernstein\, Vincent d’Indy\, Arthur Foote\, Germaine Tailleferre\, and Morton Feldman. The Horszowski Trio is a passionate advocate for the music of our time. The Trio has premiered\, commissioned\, championed\, and recorded works of a wide range of composers including Derek Bermel\, Kenji Bunch\, Paul Chihara\, Morton Feldman\, David Fulmer\, Daron Hagen\, John Harbison\, Louis Karchin\, Eric Moe\, Andreia Pinto-Correia\, Joan Tower\, and Charles Wuorinen. They premiered Wuorinen’s Piano Trio No. 2\, written for them\, at the Library of Congress in April 2025. The Trio’s violinist Jesse Mills\, a two-time Grammy nominee who is also a composer and arranger\, wrote Painted Shadow for the ensemble; the work was commissioned by and premiered at Bargemusic in Brooklyn\, New York in January 2015. \nThe Horszowski Trio enjoys opportunities to expand its chamber music horizons through collaborations\, having worked with such musicians as Aaron Boyd (from the Escher Quartet)\, Kikuei Ikeda (Tokyo Quartet)\, Masumi Per Rostad (Pacifica Quartet)\, Phillip Ying (Ying Quartet)\, and Roberto Diaz. \nThe Horszowski Trio is based in New York City. It is the Ensemble-in-Residence at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and of the Leschetizky Association in New York City. \n\nChamber Music at the Clark is made possible by The Ahmanson Foundation\, under the auspices of Lee Walcott; Henry J. Bruman Endowment for Chamber Music; The Colburn Foundation; Ms. Brenda F. Anderson; Martha Bardach/Bardach Robson Family Charitable Foundation; Catherine Glynn Benkaim\, Ph.D. and Ms. Barbara Timmer; Rogers Brubaker\, Ph.D; Johanna R. Drucker\, Ph.D.; The Mari and Ed Edelman Charitable Fund for Music and Public Service; Dr. Daniel J. Fink and Dr. Ruth F. Cousineau; Susan S. Harris\, Ph.D. and Mr. Mark J. Harris; Judith L. Hellinger; Dr. David E. Lopez; Dr. Martin H. Mach and Dr. Susan P. Mach; Mr. Bernie Mendes and Ms. Elaine Mendes; Mrs. Janet K. Minami; Mr. Jeffrey L. Nagin and Mrs. Bette I. Nagin; Jeanne Robson\, Ph.D. ; Dr. Thomas Rosenthal and Ms. Susan M. Rosenthal; Dr. Patricia Bates Simun and Mr. Richard V. Simun Memorial Fund; Professor Bronwen Wilson; and Mr. Robert A. Young and Mrs. Roberta J. Husted Young. \nPlease see here for more information about our chamber music programs. \n\nPhoto credit: Courtesy of the Horszowski Trio.
URL:https://dev.1718.ucla.edu/event/horszowski-2026/
LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
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SUMMARY:40th Anniversary Celebration of the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the 40th anniversary of the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies\, the nation’s first research center for early modern studies. Founded in 1985\, the Center provides a forum for the discussion of central issues in the field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies\, and organizes a wide range of academic and cultural programs. Additionally\, the Center administers the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, located on a historic property in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles\, which serves as the research laboratory for a distinguished array of fellows working either in early modern studies or the fin-de-siècle world of Oscar Wilde. \nThe program features a talk presented by UCLA Professor of English Helen Deutsch\, who served as the Center & Clark’s Director for a four year-term from 2017 to 2020. Following the talk\, guests are invited to mingle with friends and colleagues in Royce 306\, where they can add a message to the 40th anniversary Padlet\, view a display of Center & Clark ephemera and a slideshow\, and enjoy a reception on the terrace. \nAt a moment when higher education is under siege\, the study of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries might seem a luxury at best\, irrelevant at worst. Professor Deutsch’s talk\, a review and celebration of the Center and its history\, refutes such assumptions. She will argue that the work of the Center and its partner the Clark—research\, musical and theatrical performance\, conferences\, collaborations in many forms—is not a retreat to the past but rather an ongoing engagement with our present. Critical University Studies scholar Christopher Newfield has recently described universities as “places of unique challenge\, novelty\, and happiness\, of intellectual revolutions and personal transformations.”  The Center is just such a place\, and our imaginative and intellectual investments in the past illuminate the ways in which such revolutions are both rooted in history and ongoing collective projects of the utmost relevance. \nProfessor Deutsch joined UCLA’s English department in 1995 and was first affiliated with the Center & Clark as an Ahmanson-Getty postdoctoral fellow in 1992–93. In addition to serving as Director\, she has assisted the Center & Clark in many capacities over the years\, including as Clark Professor in 2005–06\, and as a member and chair of the Faculty Advisory Committee. \nHer research is fueled by the love of literature and the love of authors. She practices a unique kind of feminist historical formalism that reads texts in relationship to the embodied lives of the writers who produced them. Her first two books consider the singular bodies of Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson in symbiotic relationship to each author’s uniquely imitative literary style and contested critical reception. \nHer most recent book\, The Last Amateur\, goes beyond the single-author framework to consider what it means to learn to love one author through another\, and to be transformed in the process. Deutsch scrutinizes Edward Said’s career-long conversation with Jonathan Swift\, which began with an unfinished book (a part of which was presented at the Clark)\, in order to raise questions of her own about the path of literary studies. At a time when many in the field have lost faith in critique\, she shows how passion and refusal of professional propriety—the hallmarks of the amateur—can enliven critique again. \nIn addition to serving as departmental Vice Chair for Graduate Studies\, she successfully spearheaded the founding of UCLA’s interdisciplinary Disability Studies Minor\, which she chaired from 2006 to 2011. She has been a member at large of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies\, chair of the Division for Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature of the Modern Language Association\, an advisory editor for PMLA\, the association’s journal\, and a member of its Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession. \n\nThis event is free to attend with advance registration and will be held in-person on the UCLA campus in Royce Hall 314 and 306. Seating is limited; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. Registration will close on Thursday\, October 1\, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. \n\nLoading… \n\nPhoto credit: Reed Hutchinson
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SUMMARY:Private Passions\, Public Legacies: William Andrews Clark Jr. and the Making of Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special event commemorating the Clark Library’s centennial and exploring the remarkable life of its founder\, William Andrews Clark Jr. \nThe event begins with the opening of the exhibition Private Passions\, Public Legacies: William Andrews Clark Jr. and the Making of Los Angeles\, curated by the staff of the Clark Library\, to be followed by a talk by Liz Brown\, author of Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire (Penguin\, 2021)\, who will discuss the history of the library’s founder. The afternoon concludes with an outdoor reception as the library remains open for exhibition viewing. \n\n3:30 PM – Doors open\n3:45-4:15 PM – Welcome remarks and overview of exhibition by Head Librarian Derek Christian Quezada Meneses\n4:15-5:15 PM – Presentation on William Andrews Clark Jr. by Liz Brown and Q & A\n5:15–6:30 PM – Reception in Outdoor Reading Room\, exhibition viewing\n\nWelcome remarks\, the exhibition overview\, and Liz Brown’s presentation will be livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube channel and available to watch after the event for a limited time. \nPrivate Passions\, Public Legacies: William Andrews Clark Jr. and the Making of Los Angeles \nKicking off the centennial celebration of UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, this exhibition explores the remarkable role of its founder\, William Andrews Clark Jr.\, in shaping the cultural landscape of Los Angeles. \nDrawing principally upon the collections of the Clark Library\, Private Passions\, Public Legacies places Clark within the extraordinary network of artists\, printers\, musicians\, architects\, collectors\, society figures\, civic leaders\, wives\, lovers\, and friends who surrounded him. Together\, these relationships reveal a city whose cultural identity did not emerge through growth and circumstance alone\, but was deliberately constructed through philanthropy\, patronage\, collecting\, scholarship\, and institution building. \nThe exhibition follows Clark from his private world of books\, music\, clubs\, gardens\, and collecting into the public institutions and cultural networks that grew from those interests. It considers his role in the founding of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the development of the city’s musical life; Los Angeles’s distinctive traditions of fine printing and the book arts; the social and cultural networks that connected collectors and philanthropists across the city; Clark’s interests in astronomy and scientific inquiry; and the architecture and landscape of the estate he created around his library. \nA century after the Clark Library was completed\, the exhibition asks how private passions become public legacies—and how one comparatively little-known figure helped shape the cultural ambitions of modern Los Angeles. The exhibition will be on view through February 10\, 2027. \nThe Clark is delighted and honored to welcome Liz Brown\, author of Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire (Penguin\, 2021)\, to present a talk as part of the exhibition opening that highlights William Andrews Clark Jr.’s role as a major—but often overlooked—figure in L.A.’s cultural development\, and the ways his story continues today. Doheny\, Huntington\, Getty—these names are well known in the landscape and the lore of Los Angeles. But what about William Andrews Clark Jr.? His legacy continues with the Clark Library\, of course\, but also the LA Philharmonic\, Hollywood Bowl\, Pershing Square\, and Hollywood Forever Cemetery. And yet\, few know his name or his connection to these landmarks. Clark remains a shadowy figure—as he was in his own era. A child of the Gilded Age\, heir to a copper dynasty\, Clark was an aspiring violinist\, ardent bibliophile\, and powerful philanthropist with a secret gay life. The story of Will Clark is also a story about LA\, from its expansive boom in the 1920s to the bust and constriction of the 1930s. Clark’s later years resembled something of a real-life noir\, the kind of plot that his fellow bibliophile and clubman Raymond Chandler might have written. Join us for this fascinating lecture about forgotten LA history\, hidden gay lives\, the legacy of an American dynasty\, and the limits of self-invention—even in LA. \n \nLiz Brown is the author of Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire. Her writing has appeared in Bookforum\, London Review of Books\, Los Angeles Times\, New York Times Book Review\, Slate\, T Magazine\, and elsewhere. www.lizbrown.la \n\nThis event is free to attend with advance registration and will be held in-person at the Clark Library. Seating is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. Registration is not required to watch the livestreamed portion of the event. \nThis event has reached capacity. To be added to the wait list\, please complete and submit the form below. \n\nLoading… \n\nImage caption: Clark (William Andrews\, Jr.) and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Records\, 1878-2022 (Clarkive. Pre-1934). The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, University of California\, Los Angeles. \nPhoto courtesy of Liz Brown.
URL:https://dev.1718.ucla.edu/event/public-legacies/
LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
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