The artist in residence at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts is honoring another artist. Pianist Lara Downes this month released , an album marking the centennial year of the late composer Leonard Bernstein's birth, featuring her and other musicians.
As one of 69成人' Innovators of the Year last year, she received a $10,000 prize that she said "was very supportive to my research and preparation for this project.鈥
Hear her discuss the album in the above video and on .
If you'd like to hear more Bernstein, the Department of Music is presenting the Oscar-winning West Side Story on campus this Friday night (March 2).
A major with a little bit of everything
The latest edition of #UCDavisLife, a video series produced by staff in the Office of Strategic Communications, features a major that has a little bit of everything. See which one it is in the above video, and .
Wowing with biodiversity
A dozen collections and a special exhibit threw open their doors earlier this month for Biodiversity Museum Day, and members of the public came in droves to explore them.
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