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'Bach's Lunch' offers classical flavor at UC Irvine
Classical music lovers at UC Irvine were given a lunchtime treat April 9 as a host of cellists performed the works of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach for the “Bach’s Lunch” concert in the Arts Amphitheater. This was the second annual Bach’s...
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The $5 Million Fiddle poster
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Living with a 324-year-old, $5 million Stradivarius
Iryna Krechkovsky looks like a typical grad student waiting in line at the Peet’s coffeehouse near UC Irvine. She has a purse over her shoulder and a glossy black hard-sided instrument backpack. Inside is a 324-year-old Stradivarius violin worth $5...
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A musician with curly hair and glasses plays a silver flute into a microphone. They wear a striped shirt and hold the flute horizontally while standing on a stage with a dark background.
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Nicole Mitchell Top Best Jazz Concert of 2017
The Chicago Tribune named Nicole Mitchell and Malian kora virtuoso Ballake Sissoko's September performance at the University of Chicago's Logan Center for the Arts one of the top jazz performances of the year for the "daring world premiere" of “Bamako*Chicago Sound System," calling it "intensely contrapuntal, lustrously sonorous music-making."
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Jerzy Kosmala
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Breaking “Brahms”: Jerzy Kosmala, Viola Virtuoso
UCI is home to one of the world’s premier violists: Dr. Jerzy Kosmala. When he’s not lecturing at Irvine, he’s serving as an adjudicator for one of any number of illustrious competitions and councils, ranging from the Lionel Tertis International Viola...
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