University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Due to the lack of theaters showing film of student interest, many film programs are presented for student only audiences. The Collection, a series of mid-century films, was sponsored jointly by ASUCLA and Delta Kappa Alpha. During the fall semester CFAP and the Theater Arts Department showed Op, Pop Kicky Flicks. The ASUCLA Film Commission, composed of graduates and held its own film series as well as jointly sponsoring film programs with other groups. During the school year there was at least one evening of cinema each week.

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Charlie Mingus and cool sounds, the hot wailing of Louis Armstrong ' s trumpet, the stoccato improvisations of the Swingle Singers–this was the jazz scene at UCLA, though less extensive than the classical offerings, the jazz concerts were more warmly received by the students. In the first of the three Fall semester concerts, Mingus and his sextet, augmented by extra musicians, performed some of his famous extended compositions. In October, Louis brought his All-Stars to Pauley Pavilion for an of jazz that only the inimitable Satchmo could give. The French Swingle Singers ' November concert illustrated the oft-made point that jazz is a step away from classical music, with its reperetoire of 18th Century fugues, preludes and other compositions accelerated and expressed in 4 4 time. The Student Cultural Commission and the ASUCLA Speakers program co-sponsored a program of Shelly Manne and Dick Gregory which was held in Pauley Pavilion. Many other jazz musicians were also seen at the informal Coffee Concerts also sponsored by the Cultural Commission.

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During the spring of 1965, a new dimension in University-Student relationships was A liaison was established between the large resources of the Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation and the student body. For a nominal fee, any UCLA student could rent a graphic print executed by such artists as Ernst L. Kirchner, the expressionist; Georges Braque, or the artist Misch Kohn. All available prints, rented out on a first-come, first-serve basis, were contracted for. the remainder of the semester. Because of the enormous success of its first experience, the Art Rental ' Program opened this Fall with an exhibition of 200 prints, and offered for sale 50 sugar-lift aquatints of Small Bird done by Misch Kohn, who was commissioned by the Art Rental Program. The Program ' s success and growing popularity promised to enable every student to live personally with a piece of art, or even own it, in the near future.