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HIGHLIGHTS

Left to right: Royce Center Circle Board President William B. Fitzgerald, Amanda Sefton Hogg with son Ambrose, and UCLA Live Director of Development John C. Spokes. Photo courtesy of UCLA Live The acclaimed new Ken Burns PBS documentary series, “The War,” was underscored by Professor GARY GRAY’s Grammy-nominated solo CD of Aaron Copeland’s “Clarinet Concerto,” recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Professors IAN KROUSE and VITALY MARGULIS attended the Seventh Annual International Conservatoire Week Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, with vocal student KATHERINE GIAQUINTO (soprano), who performed compositions by Krouse for the festival. UCLA LIVE More than a dozen major donors and volunteers of UCLA Live have joined the Sixth International Theater Festival/Royal Shakespeare Company Host Committee by collectively contributing more than $300,000. The Committee underwrote the Royal Shakespeare Company’s visit to Royce Hall in October and attended a special dinner with UCLA Live Director DAVID SEFTON and Royal Shakespeare Company actors Sir Ian McKellen and Frances Barbour. WILLIAM B. FITZGERALD,lawyer and Bruin parent, was re-elected to a two-year term as President of the Royce Center Circle Board. Fitzgerald is also a Distinguished Patron, The Music Center Performing Arts Center; Member of Board of Overseers, Los Angeles Philharmonic; President’s Circle, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Patron, Center Theater Group and many other positions. WORLD ARTS AND CULTURES Professor Emerita EMMA LEWIS THOMAS was honored as the first Guest Professor of the Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, on their 25th anniversary celebration. Thomas was the first person appointed to a German university as Professor der Tanzwissenschaft and Aësthetik. UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures Professor and Director VICTORIA MARKS is conducting “Action Conversations,” a 10-week workshop for artists and veterans of Operation Enduring

Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. “Action Conversations" will culminate in public presentations at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica this February 8 and 9. Co-chair, Assistant Professor -and Director of the Art | Global Health Center DAVID GERE planned the Make Art/Stop AIDS exhibition, marking its debut in February at the Fowler Museum. An international traveling exhibition, it presents approximately 60 works, including contemporary paintings and sculptures, photographs, performance videos, posters, animated shorts, digital media, installations and more to record the history of the epidemic, to appreciate its enormity, and to share information and ideas about future interventions. "American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3" (revised 2nd edition) by Christopher Waterman and Larry Starr, Oxford University Press DEAN’S OFFICE "American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3," published by Oxford University Press and co-authored by CHRISTOPHER WATERMAN, Dean of UCLA Arts, and Larry Starr, has been licensed to the State Department and will be translated into Spanish, French, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi and Russian. It will be distributed to the United States embassies around the world.

Timothy Rice, Director, The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Photo by Patricia Williams TIMOTHY RICE, Associate Dean of Research and Academic Affairs and Director of the newly formed UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, was elected to a six-year term on the Board of Directors of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) at its World Congress in Vienna, Austria, this past July. ICTM is a leading international scholarly organization in the field of ethnomusicology and maintains a formal consultative relationship with UNESCO. KAVIN BUCK Director of Enrollment Management and Outreach, was elected President of the Western Association for College Admissions Counseling (WACAC). He was one of eight Californians to receive the Excellence in Government Relations award from the National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC) for his work on securing passage of California Assembly Bill AB1802, which provides $200 million to hire school counselors and alleviate the highest student-to-counselor ratio in the nation.

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