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Before attending UCLA, third-year ethnomusicology student Melena Francis Valdes took a 15-year break from college to perform Afro-Cuban percussion instruments such as the Batá drums, conga drums and the drum set with musicians such as Stevie Wonder. (Marley Maron/Daily Bruin)

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Each week, Daily Bruin A&amp;E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

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Sounds of Schoenberg: The Afro-Cuban Batá drums

By Carol Yao

Nov. 6, 2015 1:48 a.m.