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box and cylinder
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Matt Perko
Paul Georg von Möllendorff Chinese cylinders, a collection of 16 recordings from the late 1800s

Linguistic artifacts: UCSB Library acquires rare Chinese audio recordings

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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.
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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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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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A couple dances to cumbia in the film Yo Soy No Guapo
“Yo No Soy Guapo,” 2018, directed by Joyce Garcia

Audiovisual Avant-Garde
Fullbright Award recipients

Research on the Road
Geoff Meyerhof presenting at grad slam with slides behind