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Spring Sing. Spring Sing is an annual music competition held in May at UCLA 's Pauley Pavilion. Touted as "UCLA's oldest and greatest musical tradition," the competition brings together UCLA students to perform as solo artists, duets, bands, and a cappella groups in front of an audience of over 8,000 UCLA students, alumni, faculty, staff and ...
May 20, 2016 · 1945: The beginnings of Spring Sing The first Spring Sing was held on May 18, 1945, at the now-demolished UCLA Greek theatre. Created by then-ASUCLA director William Ackerman, the competition was ...
Mar 21, 2023 · It’s UCLA’s biggest musical event of the year. But Spring Sing is so much more.
May 17, 2017 · John Sanchez | May 17, 2017. W hat do Ray Charles, Julie Andrews, M.C. Hammer, Pete Townsend, Anthony Kiedis, Alanis Morissette, Brian Wilson and Ella Fitzgerald have in common? All make up the diverse cast of the music industry’s biggest names selected by UCLA students to receive the Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement.
- Spring Sing grew out of a 1940s tradition when fraternity groups competed for the title of Champion Serenaders of Sorority Row. UCLA. Early Spring Sing stage.
- How to successfully ask for a date to Spring Sing.
- Angela Lansbury, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald were all Spring Sing honorees. Ray Charles in 1991: “This is such an honor for me.” Wikimedia Commons/Victor Diaz Lamich.
- This year's Tony Awards nominee Sara Bareilles performed solo for the first time in front of a large audience at Spring Sing in 2002. CBS. Sara Bareilles at Kennedy Center Honors in 2015.
When Pauley Pavilion opened in 1966, Spring Sing returned to UCLA for two years; however, after the 1967 show Spring Sing fell dormant for a decade, until student and alumni interest revived the event in 1978. In 1986, the Student Alumni Association became the organizers of the event in an effort to return the show to its previous glory and ...
May 18, 2017 · Spring Sing is – understandably – one of UCLA’s greatest traditions. It showcases many of the things that Los Angeles is known and loved for: up and coming musicians, the spectacle of a ...
