
Composer and Distinguished Professor of Music at UCLA Paul Chihara will give a talk entitled "New Music for the New Hollywood" at the Weitz Center, room 235 (The Sandbox) on Thursday, September 19th, 7:00. Mr. Chihara has written extensively for film, the concert hall, and ballet and has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundations, Fulbright, and the Aaron Copland Fund. Mr. Chihara was a student of Nadia Boulanger and a recipient of the 1962 Lili Boulanger Memorial Award. Most recently he was named Composer-Of-The-Year by the Classical Recording Foundation in New York. His most recent projects have included a film score for John Turturro's "Romance and Cigarettes", musical consulting for Duke Ellington's "Sophisticated Ladies", on Broadway, as well as James Clavell's "Shogun: The Musical".