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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 celebrity judges.
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- To unite the UCLA community by promoting artistic talent
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The Spring Sing Story. It was right before the close of World War II that a few of the more enterprising - and certainly more romantic - UCLA fraternities began the quaint custom of serenading sorority sisters. It wasn't long before there was a difference of opinion as to whose group was the best.
Mar 21, 2023 · An announcer booms through the speakers, “Live from Westwood … it’s Spring Sing!” Every year, the crowd roars for one of the oldest and greatest traditions at UCLA. George Brown, director of the Alumni Scholars Club puts it simply: “Spring Sing brings UCLA together.”
- 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.
May 20, 2016 · 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 advertised as a showcase for...
Since its debut in 1945, Spring Sing has become a living and breathing extension of the UCLA community, encapsulating student life through music, comedy, dance and art.
