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symphony on stage
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American Composers Alliance (screen grab)
The premiere of composer Earl Louis Stewart's "Homage to Swing" at UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music's Schoenberg Auditorium, Feb. 5, 2017, as part of the "Swinging to a World of Strings" concert with Maestro Neal Stulberg conducting.

Earl Louis Stewart’s ‘Homage to Swing’ recognized by American Prize Competition

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Portrait of professor Isabel Bayrakdarian at an awards ceremony
Professor and opera singer Isabel Bayrakdarian, November 2023
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Two pianists play facing each other on a darkened stage
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Courtesy photo
Vicki Ray and Aron Kallay have been playing together for about a decade.
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Headshots of Benjamin Brecher and Samuel Mungo bookend vintage image of an opera playbill cover
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Benjamin Brecher, far left, and Samuel Mungo, far right, co-created the version of Gustave Kerker's opera "Burning to Sing" for UC Santa Barbara's music department.
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Portrait of Joao Pedro Oliveira
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Debra Herrick
"It is definitely a very special highlight in my composition career," said João Pedro Oliveira on receiving an award from the Guggenheim Foundation.
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Astor Piazzolla playing the bandoneón
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COURTESY OF UCSB LIBRARY SPECIAL RESEARCH COLLECTIONS
Astor Piazzolla playing the bandoneón

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A couple dances to cumbia in the film Yo Soy No Guapo
“Yo No Soy Guapo,” 2018, directed by Joyce Garcia
Workstation for spatialization app and two portraits of men

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Dancers posing dramatically in a group on stage

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