Lowell Milken in Tune

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Lowell Milken’s family foundation has donated $1.5 million to the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. The money will be used to establish the Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music. The school houses the Milken Archive of Jewish Music, a collection founded in 1990, and the latest gift will help support the archive’s work to document 350 years of Jewish experience in America through recordings, scores, and other historical materials. … Joining the national board of Planned Parenthood is Shonda Rhimes. She told Elle.com that “women’s health is under fire right now and so to me, it feels like it’s important to help fight back.” She has served on the local Planned Parenthood board for several years. … Lee Daniels is set to receive the Visionary Award next week from Extraordinary Families, a nonprofit dedicated to child welfare. A posthumous award will be given to philanthropist Howard Kaufman. … Ryan Kavanaugh is on the move. Variety reports that the erstwhile Relativity Media chief executive and his wife, Jessica Roffey, have listed their Brentwood home for $10.5 million – less than a year after they purchased it for $9.75 million. … On the buy side, it has been reported that Larry Ellison has snapped up another Carbon Beach property – his 10th by some accounts. The latest is said to be a 7,700-square-foot, five-bedroom getaway snapped up for $48 million. … Sumner Redstone will leave his voting role on the CBS board at its annual shareholder meeting in May, according to CNBC. … Frank Gehry’s firm has been tapped to design a complex of educational facilities and the main concert hall for the Krakow Academy of Music in Poland. … Rep. John Lewis gave the annual Winston C. Doby Distinguished Lecture at UCLA and received the UCLA Medal, the school’s highest honor, from Chancellor Gene Block. The honor came as an acknowledgement of the congressman’s role in the Civil Rights Movement and his ongoing pursuit of equality and social justice. … Maria Elena Durazo, vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, has thrown her hat in the ring to succeed Kevin de León in the state Senate. The president pro tem is termed out. … Jeffrey Deitch is returning to the L.A. art scene. The onetime head of MOCA has signed a lease with CIM Group for a 15,000-square-foot space on North Orange Drive in Hollywood and plans to open a gallery there. … Norman Lear has been named the fourth recipient of the annual Woody Guthrie Prize, presented by the Woody Guthrie Center of Tulsa, Okla. The presentation will happen next month at the Grammy Museum downtown. … John Bendheim has been named to the board of NXT-ID Inc., a publicly traded Florida security technology company.

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