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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.

A relative of sorts of Schmigadoon, an opera pokes fun at opera

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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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