The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music | Sculpture by Herb AlpertThe Hollywood Reporter ranked the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music #4 among the top 25 U.S. music schools for Film and TV. The magazine highlighted “a progressive, multicultural approach to learning as well as high-profile public concerts and lectures that have become an integral part of the vibrant Los Angeles cultural scene.”
Herb Alpert in his Malibu home recording studio. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times – While walking from his sculpture and painting studios to his recording studio on a typically Pacific-breezy afternoon, trumpeter, A&M Records co-founder and philanthropist Herb Alpert paused to describe his first brush with a horn. “As soon as I started to make a noise that made sense, man, this trumpet was talking for me…”
HERB ALPERT AND LANI HALL. PHOTO: JOE SEER/SHUTTERSTOCKMike Scutari, Inside Philanthropy – As a jazz musician guided by “what feels right,” one may think that Alpert’s “seat of the pants” and “knee-jerk” philanthropy—his words, not ours—lacks an overarching design. Nothing could be further from the truth.