From Loyola Marymount, Pepperdine & Pomona
Pack together a bunch of lively, smart, talented young people for the purpose of learning and who knows how entertaining it all can turn out to be?
- Who, for example, would have figured that Westchester can be a barrel of laughs? There's something hilarious about the Lions because a team of them have gotten to the finals of a televised, internet-based national comedy competition. They'll battle against students from Emerson College, the University of Florida and Xavier University after besting competitors from USC, USF and UC Berkeley.
- Meantime, in shades of the popular television show 'Glee,' singers and pianists from across the country are flocking to Malibu to participate in a month-long program, 'Breaking the Song Barrier,' which is what organizers have dubbed this year's version of the annual 'Song Fest' vocal training program. Participants will put on a number of concerts, and, yes, it's a mostly classical not a pop-oriented gig.
- Finally, the folks in Claremont have posted a magazine piece previewing a fall exhibit that tries to track back on what went down so It Happened at Pomona in the 1960s and '70s when a sleepy suburban campus suddenly became a cauldron of creativity for then young conceptual, light and space and performance artists. They went on to be now recognized art stars, including James Turrell, Peter Shelton, Chris Burden, Michael Asher, Judy Chicago, Ed Moses, Allen Ruppersberg, William Wegman and Wolfgang Stoerchle. A Getty grant underwrites the exploration how this scene flourished and vanished. It has something to do with an artist taking clothes off in a display too risque for the conservative community of the day.
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