Feldman centennial program with music by Ania Vu and Kai Kubota-Enright. Doors 7:30pm. Advance $15; day of $20; students $10; pay what you can.

Event information and tickets: https://www.oracleegg.com/calendar/blackboxensemble-mortonfeldman

World premiere by Yvette Janine Jackson with Radio Opera Workshop.

Featuring Mattie Barbier, Dawn Norfleet, Jessica Shand, and Ava Porter. The performance includes lobby sound installations and a post-show conversation led by Tiffany E. Barber.

Presented with the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and UCLA Center for Musical Humanities as part of the Opera | Black | Queer symposium.

Runtime: 50 minutes plus post-show discussion. No intermission.

Tickets and information: https://cap.ucla.edu/event/yvette-janine-jackson

US premiere of Oliver Leith’s work for orchestra and community chorus.

Event information and tickets: https://www.wildup.org/event/democracy-sessions-garland/

Saturday, October 3, 2026 • 5 PM

The Four Freshmen hit the stage with a show bursting with jazzy vibes, boundless energy, and unforgettable musical magic! They deliver a handpicked collection of timeless classics while paying homage to their legendary roots with hits like “It’s a Blue World,” “Poinciana,” and “Day by Day.” With soaring vocals, intricate harmonies, and multi-instrumental talent, the group continues to evolve with members Bob, Jake, Chris, and Tommy, delivering more than six decades of unforgettable jazz performances. It's an evening that's impossible to forget!

https://arts.pepperdine.edu/events/2026-2027-season/the-four-freshmen.htm

US premiere of Oliver Leith’s work for orchestra and community chorus.

Event information and tickets: https://www.wildup.org/event/democracy-sessions-garland/

Ten improvisers form quartets, trios, duos, and solos by drawing names in real time, followed by a final ensemble set. Free; doors 7:30pm; performance 8:00pm.

Event information: https://www.oracleegg.com/calendar/luck-of-the-draw-3

Sunday, October 4, 2026 • 2PM

Chaeyoung Park, born in South Korea, is a prize-winning pianist renowned for her expressive artistry and virtuosic technique. Winner of the 2022 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions and finalist at the 2023 Arthur Rubinstein International Master Piano Competition, she has performed at Carnegie Hall, Bravo! Vail Music Festival, and with major orchestras across the US and Israel. Her wide-ranging repertoire from Baroque masterpieces to contemporary works delivers performances that are both captivating and deeply moving.

$23-33

MEC’s ECHOI performs Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel, with early Feldman works and choral music by Josquin des Prez.

Event information: https://www.mondayeveningconcerts.org/rothko-chapel-1-1

A performance of Strumming Music.

Event information and tickets: https://pianospheres.org/event/charlemagne-palestine-in-concert/

Kim Gordon and Bill Nace perform as Body/Head, presented by UPEND.

Event information and tickets: https://upend.la/

Every order decides what belongs and what is left outside. Order and Its Others listens at the margins through works that organize sound, power, freedom, and collectivity in radically different ways. The evening opens with a triptych of works that place the individual body, voice, and imagination under pressure. Sofia Gubaidulina’s physically charged Dancer on a Tightrope, Gabriella Smith’s vivid and propulsive Carrot Revolution, and Luigi Nono’s La fabbrica illuminata move between precarity, transformation, and resistance, asking how a person might assert freedom within structures that seek to contain or overwhelm them. The second half of the program is devoted to Louis Andriessen’s De Staat, a forceful meditation on music, politics, and the ensemble as a social body. Written in response to Plato’s Republic, De Staat takes up the ancient claim that music can threaten the state by turning the score into a political argument that doubts its own power even as it makes it: can music ever be free from the institutions and ideologies that decide what gets played, who gets to play it, and how we listen? https://www.redcat.org/events/democracy-sessions-order-and-its-others

A performance by Aine Nakamura of sounding, poetry, movement, and set design. Doors 7:30pm; performance 8:00pm.

Event information and tickets: https://www.oracleegg.com/calendar/aine-nakamura

Wild Up presents the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by Shelley Washington for Wild Up musicians and The Collective Orchestra, an open-invitation community ensemble, in The Room Begins to Rise. Inspired by Émile Durkheim’s concept of “collective effervescence”—the energy that arises when people gather in shared emotion, attention, and action—the piece asks how music can become a practice of collective life. Through a flexible score that combines notation, images, text, and prompts, the piece invites musicians of all backgrounds to a collaborative performance shaped by listening, responsiveness, and shared decision-making. Wild Up musicians serve as both performers and facilitators, teaching and learning the work alongside community participants. REDCAT will be reconfigured into a communal space, allowing performers and audience to occupy a shared field of resonance, proximity, and exchange—a space where music becomes a way to rehearse collective creativity, cooperation, and democratic action in real time. https://www.redcat.org/events/democracy-sessions-room-begins-rise

Nat Evans performs What Are Days For in full, with opening support from Cassia Streb, Tim Feeney, Melissa Achten, and Eli Klausner. Doors 7:30pm; performance 8:00pm.

Event information and tickets: https://www.oracleegg.com/calendar/nat-evans-album-release

Matt McBane performs new music for synthesizers and strings with Betsy Rettig, cello, and Ian Dicke, synthesizer.

Event information and tickets: https://brightworknewmusic.com/event/tms-matt-mcbane-works-for-synthesizers-and-strings/

Jazz Refractions presents Chiquitamagic performing solo piano, followed by GEORGE performing music from Looking for Consonance.

https://angelcityjazz.com/event/george-chiquita-magic/

Angel City Jazz Festival and Vernacular New Music present more than 20 veteran and emerging musicians in eight 30-minute duo and trio sets.

https://angelcityjazz.com/event/angel-city-jazz-vernacular-intergenerational-improvisation-night/