In this live virtual class, participants will explore Bulgarian Folk Singing with Elitsa Stoyneva Krastev, a seven-time gold medalist in traditional folk singing from Targovishte, Bulgaria. Elista ...

Thirty-one years ago, a recording by an all-female Bulgarian choir singing in a 1,000-year-old style somehow wound up selling a startling 500,000 copies in the United States. The mysterious ...

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s department of ethnomusicology offers a range of different ensembles spanning multiple regions throughout the world, each with a rich musical dynamic and sound.

Thirty-one years ago, a recording by an all-female Bulgarian choir singing in a 1,000-year-old style somehow wound up selling a startling 500,000 copies in the United States. The mysterious ...

Thirty years ago an all-female folk choir set up in Bulgaria became the darling of Western audiences with its tradition-steeped a cappella singing, before the fall of communism threatened its survival ...

Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of ...

A cappella singing requires finely tuned togetherness. To be fair, that’s true of any live performance, be it dance, theater, burlesque or whatever. But the nakedness and vulnerability of voice-only ...