Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music Anna Maria Busse Berger
was awarded the Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Award by the Emeriti
Association and Vice Provost of Academic Affairs, UC Davis. The
award will augment Busse Berger’s research project on music in
Moravian mission stations from 1732–1950.
There is important
information—particularly for first-year music students—to
read through regarding Music 6 (Theory) and Music 16
(Musicianship), including placement.
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Professor Kurt Rohde—a musician who plays viola, teaches, and
composes—received a 2024 commission from the Serge
Koussevitzky Foundation in memory of Andrew W. Imbrie
(1921–2007) to write a new work for Brightwork New Music.
In 2023 Professor Mika Pelo was selected for a composer residency
by the Peterson-Berger Foundation at Sommarhagen, the home of
the late Swedish composer Wilhelm Peterson-Berger. As part of the
residency, Pelo composed a new
work, Akvareller (“Watercolors”).
The soundtrack to the film Dil Chahta
Hai (2001) was arguably the first hit soundtrack in
Bollywood created by a rock band. In this presentation, Prof.
Beaster-Jones illustrates how the collaborative approach for this
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy soundtrack generated momentum for a new kind
of Indian film song.
He highlights the changing tastes of India’s urban youth
audiences in the twenty-first century and shows how Dil
Chahta Hai paved the way for the rock and EDM-oriented
compositions of Hindi-language cinema that came to dominate the
first decades of the twenty-first century. This influence,
he argues, makes Dil Chahta Hai among the most
influential soundtracks in Indian cinematic history.
Michael Spiro is an internationally recognized percussionist,
recording artist, and educator, known specifically for his work
in the Latin music field. He has performed on hundreds of
records, co-produced several instructional videos for Warner
Bros. Publications (featuring such renowned artists as David
Garibaldi, Changuito, Giovanni Hidalgo, and Ignacio Berroa), and
produced seminal recordings in the Latin music genre, including
Orquesta Batachanga, Grupo Bata-Ketu, and Grupo Ilu-Aña.
“The Song of Creation” (pictured) is a painting by San
Francisco-based artist Tino Rodriguez, and serves as the main
inspiration for the concerto featured on this program by Juan
Sebastián Cardona Ospina, titled “Eyes to Look Otherwise.” The
concerto is dedicated to the featured soloist, saxophonist
Michael Hernandez. Hernandez commissioned the work as part of
his “Latinx Storytellers” project.
Program
Campus Band
Mattea Williams: One Magnificent Light
Quincy Hilliard: Out of Darkness
Alex Shapiro: Lights Out
Joe Hisaishi / arr. Kazuhiro Morita: Selections from Princess
Mononoke
UC Davis Concert Band
Kevin Charoensri: Rising Light
Jennifer Jolley: Lightway
Juan Sebastián Cardona Ospina: Eyes to Look
Otherwise
with Michael Hernandez, soprano saxophone
Inspired by three paintings of Tino
Rodriguez
Commissioned by the Latinx
Storytellers Project