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Inna Faliks: Music, history and identity The renowned concert pianist and UCLA professor reflects on how music helped her connect more deeply with her Jewish heritage Inna Faliks: Music, history and identity The renowned concert pianist and UCLA professor reflects on how music helped her connect more deeply with her Jewish heritage Courtesy of Inna Faliks May 27, 2021 Early in her 2017 piano recital–cum–autobiographical monologue “Polonaise-Fantaisie: The Story of a Pianist,” Inna Faliks describes the renascent antisemitism that confronted her as a child in the Ukraine of the 1980s. Her hometown of Odessa, she remembers, was rife with the refrain: “Yids, go home to Israel or any place that will take you!” ....
Milken Foundation Gifts UCLA with Center for Music of American Jewish Experience All photos courtesy of Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience UCLA announced on Dec. 3 the opening of its first permanent academic home for the study of American Jewish music. Housed in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, the new Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience will foster artistic creativity, scholarship, performance, and other cultural expression, all through a Jewish musical lens. “The Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience will unite the academic and the artistic, showcasing the artists, scholars and educators who reveal to us the authentic voice of our shared humanity,” Eileen Strempel, dean of the school of music said in a statement to the Journal. “We are incredibly grateful to Lowell Milken for his generous gift to endow this center, which builds on our latest learnings, establishes a standard of exce ....