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USC student prepares for Visions and Voices debut
Segun Oluwadele plans to share his love of music at the seventh-annual SPARK!
Popular Beatles class once controversial
Professor Bill Biersach said his Beatles class goes beyond the recording industry.
Hall strives to make guests’ experience enjoyable
Thornton Production Manager Heather Hall draws on her experience at Disneyland.
Top of the pops
Lara Johnston, a junior majoring in popular music, sings an original song at the Thornton School of Music Pop Fest on Sunday in Founders Park. Saxophonist Justin Klunk, a junior majoring in popular music, keyboard player Adam Bravo, an alumnus, and guitarist Brian Jones, a freshman majoring in popular music, performed as backup.
Free concerts deserve greater publicity
Diverse music interests are overlooked when only certain free concerts are publicized.
Student says Thornton work helped on X Factor
Simone Battle said her coursework has helped her learn about the business side of the music industry.
Donald Crockett, Xtet shine at Wednesday recital
Many of Los Angeles’s top instrumentalists gathered together Wednesday night for a stunning musical performance led by USC faculty composer and conductor Donald Crockett. The Faculty Recital took place in Alfred Newman Recital Hall and lasted approximately two hours with intermission. Crockett is the chair of the music composition department in the Thornton School of […]
New sounds
Eric Byers, a USC alumnus and member of the Calder Quartet that performed at President C. L. Max Nikias’ inauguration, gives a master class to students in the Thornton School of Music. Dan Doperalski | Daily Trojan
Goals can succeed despite struggle
Rod Gilfry always dreamed of being a fighter pilot. But at 6-foot-2, Gilfry was already too tall for a fighter jet cockpit. In the years since he gave up those plans at age 17, Gilfry has been nominated for two Grammy Awards and has acted and sung in 74 roles on prominent stages around the […]