Diane White-Clayton: The healing power of music
Works In Progress
English - October 20, 2021 23:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBVisual Arts Arts Performing Arts art architecture design film theater dance performance visual arts ucla los angeles Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Diane White-Clayton found her voice in the church. As a little girl in Washington DC, the church was central to her community. The classically trained singer and pianist studied music at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and at UC-Santa Barbara, where she received her masters and PhD.
Music has brought her around the country and around the world, where she performs, conducts choral groups, composes original music, and leads workshops of gospel, jazz, and classical music.
White-Clayton, popularly known as “Dr. Dee,” is now a lecturer in ethnomusicology at the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA. She also directs the African American Music Ensemble, is the Artistic Director of the Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers, and the Founding Director of the BYTHAX Ensemble.
She’ll join the UCLA Arts public discussion series “10 Questions” on Monday, October 25 to discuss the question “How do we heal?”
In this episode of "Works In Progress," White-Clayton discusses her musical upbringing and the power of music to heal, uplift, and connect.