Year at a Glance

  • 28 Jul

    Arcana Nomadica, Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival

    Tuesday, July 28, 2026
    12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT
    Lani Hall, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music & via Livestream
    445 Charles E. Young Dr East, 2526 Schoenberg Music Building, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Program Geamparale - Traditional Romanian Hungarian Songs - Traditional, arr. Luanne Homzy Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Hungarian Dance No. 5, from Hungarian Dances Sergei Orekhov (1935-1998) Moskovskaya Polka Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Russian Dance, from Swan Lake Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Winter, from The Four Seasons - arr. and transcribed by Nikolai Sivchuk Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) Caprice No. 24 With a Swing, arr....

  • 30 Jul

    2×3: From Duo to Sextet , Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival

    Thursday, July 30, 2026
    12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT
    Lani Hall, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music & via Livestream
    445 Charles E. Young Dr East, 2526 Schoenberg Music Building, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Program Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764) Sonata in G Minor, op. 12, no. 5 (for two violins)  Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948) Duo in G Minor, op. 35, Introduzione e Balletto (for violin and cello) Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, op. 18 The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival is being held this summer in Lani Hall, a...

  • 4 Aug

    Shostakovich & Dvořák , Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival

    Tuesday, August 4, 2026
    12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT
    Lani Hall, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music & via Livestream
    445 Charles E. Young Dr East, 2526 Schoenberg Music Building, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Program Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Cello Sonata in D Minor, op. 40 Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, op. 87, B. 162 The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival is being held this summer in Lani Hall, a 133-seat auditorium located in the Schoenberg Music Building on the UCLA campus. All concerts are free of charge, and...

  • 6 Aug

    Grand Finale with Martin Chalifour, Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival

    Thursday, August 6, 2026
    12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT
    Lani Hall, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music & via Livestream
    445 Charles E. Young Dr East, 2526 Schoenberg Music Building, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Program Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Sonata in C Major, op. 2, no. 6, RV. 1 (for violin and continuo) Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Piano Quintet in F Minor, op. 34 The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival is being held this summer in Lani Hall, a 133-seat auditorium located in the Schoenberg Music Building on the UCLA campus. All concerts are free...

  • 25 Sep

    Private Passions, Public Legacies: William Andrews Clark Jr. and the Making of Los Angeles

    Friday, September 25, 2026
    3:30 pm PDT – 6:30 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018

    Join us for a special event commemorating the Clark Library’s centennial and exploring the remarkable life of its founder, William Andrews Clark Jr. The event begins with the opening of the exhibition Private Passions, Public Legacies: William Andrews Clark Jr. and the Making of Los Angeles, curated by the staff of the Clark Library, to be followed by a talk...

  • 5 Oct

    40th Anniversary Celebration of the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies

    Monday, October 5, 2026
    4:00 pm PDT – 6:00 pm PDT
    UCLA Royce Hall, Room 314
    10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095

    Join us in celebrating the 40th anniversary of the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, the nation’s first research center for early modern studies. Founded in 1985, the Center provides a forum for the discussion of central issues in the field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies, and organizes a wide range of academic and cultural programs. Additionally, the Center...

  • 11 Oct

    Horszowski Trio, Chamber Music at the Clark

    Sunday, October 11, 2026
    2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person.  Ticket prices: General $60; Senior (age 55+) $50; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, September 8, 2026 at...

  • 25 Oct

    Quatuor Danel, Chamber Music at the Clark

    Sunday, October 25, 2026
    2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person.  Ticket prices: General $60; Senior (age 55+) $50; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at...

  • 8 Nov

    Trio con Brio Copenhagen, Chamber Music at the Clark

    Sunday, November 8, 2026
    2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person.  Ticket prices: General $60; Senior (age 55+) $50; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, October 6, 2026 at...

  • 13 Nov

    William Andrews Clark Jr., California Fine Press, Independent Publishing, and Literary Activity in Los Angeles

    Friday, November 13, 2026
    9:00 am PST – 5:00 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Organized by Johanna Drucker, Distinguished Professor and Breslauer Professor Emerita, Department of Information Studies (University of California, Los Angeles) The connection between William Andrews Clark Jr. and the fine press community that emerged in Southern California in the 1930s is evident in the extensive collections assembled in his lifetime and after. This conference reflects on the role of Clark and...

  • 16 Nov

    Hogarth’s “Lost” Annotations

    Monday, November 16, 2026
    4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018

    Spotlight Talk Lecture by Dr. Zirwat Chowdhury, Assistant Professor of 18th- and 19th-Century European Art, Department of Art History (University of California, Los Angeles) In this talk, Dr. Chowdhury will discuss an annotated copy of The Investigator No. CCCXXII, one of a series of essays published by the 18th-century Scottish painter, Allan Ramsay. The annotations are those of Ramsay’s contemporary,...

  • 4 Dec

    Human/Being, 1400-1800, Conference 1: Human/Plant

    Friday, December 4, 2026
    9:00 am PST – 5:00 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Organized by Javier Patiño Loira (University of California, Los Angeles) and David P. Bardeen (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) This conference is part of the 2026-27 Core Program, a year-long series of three conferences – Human/Plant, Human/Animal, and Human/Machine – that invite participants from across the humanistic disciplines (including history, art history, history of science, literature, philosophy, religious history,...

  • 9 Dec

    Cook-Along with the Clark: An Online Culinary Experience

    Wednesday, December 9, 2026
    6:00 pm PST – 7:00 pm PST
    Online (details emailed to attendees)
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    Julia Rhoton, Chef Instructor and Culinary Arts Coordinator, UCLA Did you know that the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library houses an extensive collection of cookbooks, handwritten recipe collections, and treatises on food from the 1650s to the 1950s? As we celebrate the Clark Library’s centennial during the 2026-27 academic year and showcase the many facets of its collections, join us...

  • 10 Jan

    Manhattan Chamber Players, Chamber Music at the Clark

    Sunday, January 10, 2027
    2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person.  Ticket prices: General $60; Senior (age 55+) $50; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, November 17, 2026 at...

  • 25 Feb

    21st Century Book Collecting

    Thursday, February 25, 2027
    4:00 pm PST – 6:00 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Spencer W Stuart, Collections Advisor Every other year, Southern California hosts one of the largest and most important opportunities to see and buy rare books, manuscripts, ephemera, prints and maps on the West Coast. The Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America’s International Book Fair takes place over three days with scores of dealers from around the world. For first time attendees,...