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Mission Opera performs winter tunes from around the world

Hosted by Mission Opera Executive Director Josh Wentz, the ensemble was a mixture of professional Mission Opera company members, church choir volunteers, and student vocalists from California State University, Northridge, and Los Angeles Mission College. -- Santa Clarita Valley Signal

Roth, Sánchez Perform for GNC

Nancy Roth, violinist (and violist), is currently the concertmaster of the Culver City Symphony and Marina del Rey Summer Symphony. She is also concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay and a member of the Pasadena Symphony. She is a former member of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, was co-principal violist of the Graz Philharmonic in Austria, and served many years as concertmaster of the San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra and the Carson-Dominguez Hills Symphony. She has been a featured soloist with numerous Southern California orchestras including the Culver City Symphony, Carson Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Southland Symphony Orchestra. She has given recitals and radio broadcasts in the United States, Austria and Mexico, and is currently a member of the new music group “TEMPO” based at California State University Northridge. Roth is a member of the String Family Players (quintet), which performs educational programs for the Music Center On Tour, and she has been on the faculty of the Max Aronoff Viola Institute Summer Music Festival. She has played baroque violin and viola with James Tyler in the London Early Music Group and Los Angeles Musica Viva. Roth holds a Bachelor of Music from CSUN, a Master of Music from the Juilliard School and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Southern California. -- Crescenta Valley Weekly

Noted Producer & Drummer Trevor Lawrence Jr. Has Come To Play

More importantly, Lawrence is well respected across the music community. He's a professor who taught Hip Hop music at California State University, Northridge. He has also been a guest lecturer at the University of Alabama, Birmingham twice, most recently this year. In addition to teaching classes, for the past nearly a decade and a half, Lawrence has been working with Dr. Dre, an indisputable Hip Hop icon. -- Forbes Magazine

Actors ratify deal with Hollywood studios, with reservations

The strikes brought Hollywood to a standstill and the financial fallout has been significant. Beyond the writers and actors, more than 100,000 behind-the-scenes workers were out of jobs for months. The strikes caused roughly $10 billion in losses nationwide, according to Todd Holmes, an associate professor of entertainment media management at California State University, Northridge. While the big studios are based in Los Angeles, they also use soundstage complexes in Georgia, New York, New Jersey and New Mexico. -- San Juan Daily Star

Private Prison Firms Set To Cash In On Immigrant Surveillance Boom

“These prison companies have been lobbying on alternatives to detention for some time now, and it’s becoming a bigger part of their business,” said Jason Morin, a professor of political science at California State University, Northridge, who has studied the impacts of the private prison lobby on immigration policy. -- The Lever

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