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Music’s Stacey Fraser’s performance is reviewed and history’s David Yaghoubian is interviewed for a program on “The demise of the dollar.”
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Ana Maria Maldonado, a CSUSB adjunct music faculty member who teaches cello and string bass, will perform with the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra on Dec. 12 and 14 at the Feldheym Central Library in San Bernardino.
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“Of Ebony Embers: Vignettes of the Harlem Renaissance,” will be performed by the Core Ensemble, featuring Dracyn Blount, at the SMSU Theater on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at noon. Free admission, but space is limited.
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Alastair Edmonstone (music) is featured, Mildred Dalton Henry (professor emerita, College of Education) offers her perspective on Black History Month, and Brian Levin (criminal justice) shares the history of the KKK in Orange County.
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In addition, the CSUSB Jazz Band and Jazz Combo, along with the vocalists, each received superior ratings at the festival’s competition.
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Cal State San Bernardino is now one of only 40 universities across the United States that has been accepted by the National String Project Consortium (NSPC) as a new String Project site.
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Piano Day, which celebrates piano students in both solo and collaborative works, will take place at Cal State San Bernardino’s Music Recital Hall on Saturday, May 19.
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Works composed for orchestra by Allen Menton, an associate professor of music theory and composition, and music majors Edwin De Paz and Josh Ryan were featured in the CSUSB Chamber Orchestra concert performed June 7.
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Brian Levin (criminal justice) is interviewed for a story on how three men may have been motivated by social media to plot a hate crime, and Bob Knop (music) will direct the CSUSB Jazz Ensemble at a concert later in June.