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Upcoming Events
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USC Thornton Symphony
Carl St.Clair, principal conductor of the USC Thornton Orchestra Program, leads the USC Thornton Symphony in the opening concert of the Fall 2024 semester, including breathe/burn: an elegy by Joel Thompson, Deux Melodies Hebraiques: Kaddish by Maurice Ravel (arranged by Richard Tognetti), and Symphonie Fantastique, Op 14 by Hector Berlioz.
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Screening Quincy Jones: “Duke Ellington…We Love You Madly” (1973)
Join us for Screening Quincy Jones: Duke Ellington… We Love You Madly, the kick-off event of the USC Thornton School of Music’s year-long tribute to Quincy Jones, who, at 91, is celebrating seven decades of unprecedented professional creativity and excellence as a trailblazing cultural figure.
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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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