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Collage of five diverse artworks from the Hammer Museum Collections side by side. From left to right: 1) Contemporary painting of two embracing figures with surreal elements. 2) Post-impressionist style painting of trees with vibrant blues and greens. 3) Black and white illustration of a face with intricate patterns. 4) Japanese woodblock print style image of a figure in a checkered robe. 5) Photograph of a couple dancing, the woman in a black dress and the man in white

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Ruth Asawa. BMC (BMC.76), n.d.
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Everything We Do is Music: Music from Black Mountain College

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Curated by pianist Gloria Cheng, this program features the music of John Cage, Lou Harrison, Ernst Krenek, Erik Satie, Arnold Schoenberg, and Stefan Wolpe. With Gloria Cheng, piano; Mikhail Korzhev, piano; Aron Kallay, piano; Jean Ferrandis, flute; Jennifer Johnson, oboe; Kyung-Hee Kim-Sutre, harp; Yuri Inoo, percussion; the Lyris Quartet: Alyssa Park, violin; Shalini Vijayan, violin; Luke Maurer, viola; and Timothy Loo, cello. Nicholas Jacobson-Larson, conductor.

Complimentary coffee and tea will follow the concert.

Support for programming related to Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 is provided by Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer.

All Hammer public programs are free and made possible by a major gift from the Dream Fund at UCLA. 

Generous support is also provided by Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, and all Hammer members. 

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