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News
see allChoral alumni receive new academic appointments
Katya Richardson conducts her score from “The Last Repair Shop” in Union Station concert
USC Thornton alumni win 2024 Emmy Awards
Heeseong Lee wins Grand Prize and Audience Prize at Los Angeles Conducting Workshop & Competition
Upcoming Events
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An Evening with Laura Ortman and Raven Chacon
Award-winning composers Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) and Raven Chacon (Navajo) will play together, drawing from their respective practices and building upon their previous collaborations to create an experiential, improvisational live set of sound and movement.
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USC Thornton Winds
Sharon Lavery, resident conductor of the USC Thornton Orchestra Program, leads the USC Thornton Winds in a program featuring Overture to Candide by Leonard Bernstein, L'Histoire du Soldat Suite by Igor Stravinsky, Percy Grainger's "Children's March," "Irish Tune from County Derry" and "Shepherd's Hey," and "Lost Vegas" by Michael Daugherty.
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Vignettes – Alan Louis Smith: A Life in Music
USC Thornton faculty members and alumni present a concert of music by the beloved, long-time (now deceased) faculty member, Alan Louis Smith, along with music that he loved as a performer and teacher.
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Jazz Night at Carson featuring ALAJE
Jazz Night at Carson features ALAJE, the Afro-Latin American Jazz Ensemble led by faculty member Aarón Serfaty, performing music from various genres of Latin culture.
