Firebirth: Kindling the Sounds of Resilience in Los Angeles
Date and time is TBD
|Lani Hall Theater at UCLA
Firebirth brings music, ecology, and community together in a powerful evening of listening, reflection, and resilience in the wake of Los Angeles’s wildfires.
Time & Location
Date and time is TBD
Lani Hall Theater at UCLA, 445 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
About the event
Motivated by the sociocultural and economic impacts that the Palisades and Altadena fires of January 2025 had on the greater Los Angeles (LA) area, Firebirth: Kindling the Sounds of Resilience in Los Angeles will offer a community-oriented space for UCLA students, faculty, staff, and residents of the surrounding area to critically reflect on the sounds of LA after such fires. The event will also act as a site of education and healing prompted by hearing from those who study and engage with fire ecology. This event will center around a new composition for violin and piano, Firebirth, composed by Will Rand (b. 1999). Firebirth is a part of a commission project entitled “Resilience Sounds” intended to explore the relationship between music, the natural world, and communities within it. Composer Will Rand and violinist Grace M. Alexander will offer this work as a performance and be present to discuss their experiences and…