While sitting in the full audience in Harbeson Hall, one could wonder why so many people would come to listen to PCCs 12th annual piano honors recital, which had some mixed talent.
Novelist and Los Angeles Times journalist to visit campus
Author and Los Angeles Times columnist Hector Tobar will visit the campus on Apr. 2 to discuss his two novels, The Tattooed Soldier and The Barbarian Diaries, as well his career as an Los Angeles Times journalist.
Afro-American music class transcends ordinary teaching
Music instructor Ray Briggs explains to the students that Afro-American music was an outlet for the slaves to say what they meant without being detected. The music empowered the people who had no rights. “Music helps us transcend the physical context we are in,â€
Art instructor shares formula of success with aspiring artists
Art Instructor Mahara T. Sinclaire speaks about the formula for her survival as an artist in the highly competitive L.A. art scene.
Architecture exhibit opens at gallery
Some of the works in the exhibit are abstract creations and many are different structures, such as a design for the Westfield Mall in Century City.
Sculptor, painter named Artist in Residence
Tom LaDuke exhibit will open on Feb. 20 in the Art Gallery.
Exploring Theater in London
Share: Twenty-two PCC students along with Instructor Joseph Sierra and Dean Amy Ulmer Division Dean will be traveling to London from May 3 to 12, 2013 to explore theater in London. Follow:
PCC joins forces with UCLA for music event
PCC marketing students joined forces with UCLA to host the Music That Matters event in order to increase awareness of the decline of music and the arts in our educational institutions late last month.
REVIEW: Absorbed into the 19th Century
Phillip Young, instructor and director of the Schumann’s Ghosts concert, began the Saturday night show in Harbeson Hall with a slow haunting piano piece that filled the room with shadowy sounds. It was Schumann’s last piece, Young told the audience, written just before an attempted suicide and two years in an asylum.
REVIEW: Trumpets, tubas, and euphoniums on show
“We are going to do something a little different tonight,†said Jennifer Serda, as she introduced herself and the Mag 5 Brass Quintet. “We are going to switch instruments.†This brought a small laugh from part of the crowd, and a scared silence from the rest of the audience.