Day

Date

Activity

Time

Location

Tuesday/ Wednesday

September 23-24

Orientation for new TAs

10am-3pm

B544 SMB

Wednesday

September 24

Undergraduate Orientation

10am-3pm

Gamelan Room

Wednesday

September 24

Graduate Orientation

10:30am-12pm

Green Room

Wednesday

September 24

Music Entrance Test

2-4pm

1440 SBM

Thursday

September 25

Fall quarter instruction begins

Friday

September 26

Ice Cream Social

3-5pm

Green Room

Friday

October 3

Convocation, The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

10-11am

Schoenberg Hall

Friday

October 3

Letter sent to 2nd year M.A. students regarding M.A. exam

Tuesday

October 7

Delegation from China, led by Professor Zhao Wen, China Conservatory

TBA

Wednesday

October 8

Faculty Meeting

12-3pm

Green Room

Wednesday

October 8

Select faculty and student reps for
FEC and Dean's Student Council

Wednesday

October 8

Concert by Chungju City Traditional Korean Orchestra

7pm

Popper Theater

Changes to Winter schedule due

Friday

October 10

291 Colloquium - Tim Rice - "Ethnomusicology: A Conceptual Sketch."

3-5pm

B544 SMB

Wednesday

October 15

Executive Committee meeting

1-3pm

2539 SMB

Friday

October 17

Personnel Action: "Faculty Eligible for Advancement" form submitted to the Dean's Office

Friday

October 17

SEM practice papers

Tuesday

October 21

Concert by Mark O'Connor, Herb Alpert Artist-in-Residence Website

8pm

Schoenberg Hall

Wednesday

October 22

Faculty Meeting

1-3pm

Green Room

Saturday-Tuesday

October 25-28

Society for Ethnomusicology 53rd annual meeting, Wesleyan University

Friday

October 31

Summer Sessions 2009 schedule due

Friday

October 31

291 Colloquium - J.C. DjeDje - "Conducting Multi-Sited Research in Ethnomusicology"

3-5pm

B544 SMB

Monday

November 3

Non- Senate Faculty Career Development Award applications due

Wednesday

November 5

Faculty Meeting

1-3pm

Green Room

Friday

November 7

2nd year MA paper proposals due

Tuesday

November 11

Veteran's Day Holiday

Wednesday

November 12

Executive Committee meeting

1-3pm

Friday

November 14

291 Colloquium - Tara Browner - "Defining the Boundaries of Pow-wow Song Performance: Appropriation, Borrowing, Simulation, and Appreciation"

3-5pm

B544 SMB

Wednesday

November 19

Faculty Meeting

1-3pm

Green Room

Thursday

November 20

"Central Asian Swing: The Kazakh National Music Academy Jazz Band." Student jazz band from the Kazakh National Academy of Music, based in Astana, Kazakhstan. Co-sponsored with the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies

12-4

Band Room

Friday

November 21

Hungarian folk music ensemble, "Muzsikás" with vocalist Marta Sebestyén. Co-sponsored with the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies. The group is performing in Royce Hall later that evening. Website

12 noon

Friday

November 21

291 Colloquium - Tim Taylor - "Advertising and the Conquest of Culture"

3-5pm

B544 SMB

Thurs-Fri

November 27-28

Thanksgiving Holiday

Monday

December 1

Jazz Showcase Concert, featuring the UCLA Jazz Combos directed by Kenny Burrell, George Bohanon, Clayton Cameron, Charles Owens, Michele Weir, and Charley Harrison

7:00pm

Schoenberg Hall

Tuesday

December 2

Holiday Jazz Concert, featuring the UCLA Jazz Orchestra, directed by Charley Harrison; the UCLA Latin Jazz Ensemble, directed by Bobby Rodriguez; and the UCLA Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, directed by Kenny Burrell and Roberto Miranda

7:00pm

Schoenberg Hall

Wednesday

December 3

Faculty Meeting

1-3pm

Green Room

Friday

December 5

Fall quarter instruction ends

Friday

Due date for personnel actions

Mon-Fri

December 8-12

Final exams

Wednesday

December 10

Executive Committee meeting

Dec 24-Jan 1

Holiday

Monday

January 5

Winter quarter instruction begins

Monday

January 5

Personnel Action: Faculty must submit information for merit dossiers to Personnel Coordinator (data summary sheets, self-statement, updated CV, and any additional information). Faculty must submit information for two-year renewals to Personnel Coordinator.

Friday

January 9

291 Colloquium - A.J. Racy - "Domesticating Otherness: The Snake Charmer in Western Imagination"

4-6pm

B544 SMB

Friday

January 9

Ice Cream Social or Pizza Social

3-5pm

Green Room

Friday

January 9

Graduate admissions files available for review

Friday

January 9

Student application deadline for Graduate Division Special Fellowships

Tuesday

January 13

Program Requirement changes due to Merrillyn Pace for the FEC curriculum sub-committee meeting, in preparation for the February 13 FEC meeting

Wednesday

January 14

Faculty Meeting

1-3pm

Green Room

Monday

January 19

Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday

Wednesday

January 21

Executive Committee meeting

1-3pm

Friday

January 23

Distinguished Teaching Award
nominations (Senate Members)
must reach Academic Senate Office

Friday

January 23

291 Colloquium - Tony Seeger - "Who Owns Music? The Impact of Intellectual Property Legislation on Musical Performance"

3-5pm

B544 SMB

Wednesday

January 28

Faculty Meeting
Personnel Action: Two-year renewals

1-3pm

Green Room

Saturday

January 31

Undergraduate audition/interview (jazz and world music)

Thursday

January 29

Send email to graduate students re: summer TAships

Monday

February 2

Spring Quarter 2009 Schedule of Classes becomes available online

Monday

February 2

Faculty Career Development Award applications due to the Chair from the applicant; due from the Chair to the Dean on February 16

Wednesday

February 4

Executive Committee Meeting

1-3pm

Friday

February 6

Personnel Action: Two year renewal appointments --
Materials due in the Dean's Office

Friday

February 6

Academic Senate "Research Enabling Grant"
proposals due to Academic Senate Office

Friday

February 6

Cota Robles nominations due to Graduate Division

Friday

February 6

All-day graduate admissions meeting

Saturday

February 7

Undergraduate audition/interview (jazz only)

Monday

February 9

Regents Lecturer
nominations due in Dean's Office

Monday

February 9

2009-2010 teaching schedules
due from faculty to the chair

Wednesday

February 11

Faculty Meeting

1-3pm

Green Room

Wednesday

February 11

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) pre-application deadline (students must apply online; applicants must be nominated by their department.)

Thursday

February 12

Dean's Scholarship: Elaine Krown Klein rankings due in the Dean's Office

Friday

February 13

FEC meeting: Program Requirement changes must be approved at this meeting in order to be submitted to Graduate Division by their March 1 deadline

Friday

February 13

Friday

February 13

Graduate Summer Mentorship Program application deadline (students self-nominate online)

Week 6

Send first-year graduate students
a letter regarding Teaching with
Technology course

Monday

February 16

Faculty Career Development awards nominations due from the Chair to the Dean

Monday

February 16

President's Holiday

Tuesday

February 17

Spring Quarter 2009 enrollment starts - Spring 2009 course websites should be available by this date

Wednesday

February 18

Executive Committee meeting

Thursday

February 19

Friday

February 20

Distinguished Teaching Award
nominations (Teaching Assistants)
must reach the Academic Senate Office

Friday

February 20

291 Colloquium - Kevin Miller - "Indo-Fijian Music, Identity Discourse, and 'Viable Authenticity'"

3-5pm

B544 SMB

Saturday, Sunday

February 21-22

SEMSCC annual meeting - UCLA

Monday

February 23

Chair sends letter by Week 8 to announce to undergraduates that emphasis applications are due by the second week of Spring Quarter

Wednesday

February 25

Undergraduate admissions decisions
due to Registrar's Office

Wednesday

February 25

Faculty meeting
Personnel Action: Merit increases

1-3pm

Green Room

Friday

February 27

2009-2010 teaching schedules due from the Chair to Al Bradley

Friday

February 27

CUTF student applications due to the Student Affairs Officer; rankings due to OID by March 13, 2009

Friday

February 27

Nomination deadline for Graduate Division Special Fellowships

Friday

February 27

291 Colloquium - Steve Loza - "From Merriam to Guadalupe: Towards a Theory for Religion as Art"

3-5pm

B544 SMB

March 1

Program Requirement changes due from the FEC to the Graduate Division

Tuesday

March 3

Graduate Research Mentorship applications due to the Graduate Advisor; nominations due to Graduate Division on April 3.

Wednesday

March 4

Executive Committee meeting

1-3pm

Friday

March 6

Chancellor's Prize nominations due to Graduate Division

Friday

March 6

291 Colloquium - Munir Beken - "Memories of a Shoehorn"

3-5pm

B544 SMB

Tuesday

March 10

Dissertation Year Fellowship applications due to the Graduate Advisor; nominations due to Graduate Division on April 10

Wednesday

March 11

Faculty Meeting

1-3pm

Green Room

Friday

March 13

FEC Meeting

Friday

March 13

CUTF nominations due to OID

Friday

March 13

Winter quarter instruction ends

Mon-Fri

March 16-20

Final exams

Wednesday

March 18

Executive Committee meeting

1-3pm

Friday

March 20

Distinguished Teaching Award
nominations (non-Senate faculty)
must reach the Academic Senate Office

Friday

March 20

OID Instructional Improvement Grant
proposals due

Friday

March 20

Recruitment Visit Funds application due to Graduate Division

Friday

March 27

Cesar Chavez Holiday

Monday

March 30

Spring quarter instruction begins

Friday

April 3

Graduate Research Mentorship Program rankings due to Graduate Division

Friday

April 3

Student application deadline for Chancellor's Prize recipients activating summer support

Friday

April 3

Ice Cream Social or Pizza Social

3-5pm

Saturday

April 4

Duke Ellington's 110th Birthday Anniversary Festival of Music: UCLA Philharmonia Orchestra, Neal Stulberg, conductor, performing specially selected Ellington extended works. Jens Lindemann, trumpeter and director of a new student brass ensemble, playing Ellington compositions. Ellington's Music for a String Quartet, arranged by Paul Chihara. Solo guest artists: violinist Lesa Terry; pianist Tom Ranier; percussionist Clayton Cameron; bassist Roberto Miranda; guitarist and Jazz Studies Director Kenny Burrell.

7pm

Schoenberg Hall

Sunday

April 5

Duke Ellington's 110th Birthday Anniversary Festival of Music: Duke Ellington's Sacred Music Concert (excerpts). West Coast Premiere of Ellington's Folk Opera Queene Pie (excerpts). Guests TBA.

1-3pm

Schoenberg Hall

Sunday

April 5

Duke Ellington's 110th Birthday Anniversary Festival of Music: Friends of Jazz Gala Reception to benefit Jazz Studies at UCLA.

3:30-6:30

TBA

Sunday

April 5

Duke Ellington's 110th Birthday Anniversary Festival of Music: UCLA Jazz Orchestra, directed by Charley Harrison; UCLA Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, directed by Kenny Burrell and James Newton; UCLA LatinJazz Ensemble directed by Bobby Rodriguez. UCLA jazz faculty soloists Kenny Burrell, Charles Owens, Barbara Morrison, Clayton Cameron, Roberto Miranda, and others. Special guests: vocalists Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ernie Andrews, Dwight Trible, Herb Jeffries and Bill Henderson; plus conductors Gerald Wilson and Chester Whitmore.

7pm

Schoenberg Hall

Tuesday

April

Deadline to submit sabbatical requests for 2009-2010

Wednesday

April

Scholarship nominations due to Dean's Office

Mon, Tues

April 6, 7

Prospective graduate student visit

Wednesday

April 8

Faculty meeting

1-3pm

Green Room

Thursday

April 9 (Week 2)

Email reminder to faculty regarding PTEs and students enrolling by Week 3

Friday

April 10

Emphasis applications due from transfer students to the Director of Undergraduate Studies

Friday

April 10

FEC Meeting

Friday

April 10

Dissertation Year Fellowship rankings due to Graduate Division

Friday

April 10

SOAA Open House

Saturday

April 11

Hammer Museum Series: The Phil Wright Trio (2pm) and Barbara Morrison (with student vocalists, accompanied by the Phil Wright Trio) (3pm)

2pm and 3pm

Hammer Museum

Monday

April 13

Letters go out to graduate students requesting CVs

Wednesday

April 15

Wednesday

April 15

Executive Committee meeting

1-3pm

Friday

April 17

291 Colloquium - Cheryl Keyes

3-5pm

Wednesday

April 22

Faculty meeting

1-3pm

Green Room

Friday

April 24

Personnel Action: Merits due in the Dean's office

Saturday

April 25

Hammer Museum Series: Music of Brazil Ensemble (2pm) and Music of China Ensemble (3pm)

2pm and 3pm

Hammer Museum

Wednesday

April 29

Executive Committee meeting

1-3pm

Friday

May 1

Sambhi Lecture - “They Can Decide What They Want in the Morning – I’ll Sing the Way I Want in the Evening”: Debating the Standardization of Raga in South India, 1930-1952, by Matthew Allen

3-5pm

Gamelan Room

Friday

May 1

M.A. papers due

May 4-8

M.A. oral exams - day to be selected

May 4-8

Dean's scholarships nominations/rankings due in the Dean's Office. Exact due date TBA

Wednesday

May 6

Faculty meeting

1-3pm

Green Room

Friday

May 8

FEC Meeting

Tuesday

May 12

Honors Reception

5-7pm

Kaufman Hall

Wednesday

May 13

Executive Committee meeting

1-3pm

Friday

May 15

Graduate Evaluation Meeting

Saturday

May 16

Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz

7pm

Sunday

May 17

Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz

7pm

Tuesday

May 19 (Week 8)

Email reminder to faculty regarding submission of teaching evaluations

Wednesday

May 20

Faculty meeting
Personnel Action: Vote on renewal of part-time faculty appointments

1-3pm

Green Room

Monday

May 25

Memorial Day Holiday

Week 8

Evaluation letters go out to graduate students

Wednesday

May 27

Executive Committee meeting

1-3pm

Thursday

May 28

Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz

7pm

Schoenberg Hall

Friday

May 29

291 Colloquium - Roger Kendall

4-6pm

Friday

May 29

Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz

7pm

Schoenberg Hall

Saturday

May 30

Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz

7pm

Schoenberg Hall

Sunday

May 31

Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz

7pm

Schoenberg Hall

Monday

June 1

Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz - Jazz Showcase Concert, featuring the UCLA Jazz Combos directed by Kenny Burrell, George Bohanon, Clayton Cameron, Charles Owens, Michele Weir, and Charley Harrison

7pm

Schoenberg Hall

Tuesday

June 2

Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz - Big Band Jazz Concert, featuring the UCLA Jazz Orchestra, directed by Charley Harrison; the UCLA Latin Jazz Ensemble, directed by Bobby Rodriguez; and the UCLA Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, directed by Kenny Burrell and Roberto Miranda

7pm

Schoenberg Hall

Wednesday

June 3

Faculty meeting

1-3pm

Green Room

Week 9

TA/GSR contracts and guidelines sent to graduate students

Friday

June 5

FEC Meeting

Friday

June 5

291 Colloquium - Helen Rees

3-5pm

Friday

June 5

Spring quarter instruction ends

Mon-Fri

June 8-12

Final exams

Friday

June 12

Graduation Reception

Schoenberg Courtyard

Saturday

June 13

Commencement

Friday

June

Teaching schedules go out

Monday

July

Graduate Division continuing fellowship nominations (unrestricted fund) due