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CONCERT PREVIEW: Eagles Community Band at the Colonial Theatre November 4 featuring clarinetist Timothy Skinner
Guest soloist Timothy Skinner holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Texas, a Master of Music degree from the University of New Mexico, and a Bachelor of Music degree from California State University in Northridge. Since 2015, Dr. Skinner has been bass clarinetist of the New Mexico Philharmonic. On soprano, bass, and e-flat clarinet, he has performed with the Santa Fe Opera, the Dallas Winds, the Santa Fe Symphony, Santa Fe ProMusica, and the Del Sol String Quartet. He has been a lecturer at Westfield State University since January of this year. -- Berkshire Edge
Teacher standards are key to helping student’s reading
The primary difference between the new California standards and their predecessor is that they more clearly identify and list teaching performance expectations, and add direction for literacy instruction for English learners and children with disabilities, said Sue Sears, a professor at CSU Northridge who also was a member of the expert group that created the standards. -- The Daily Journal
COLUMN: A transformational force gone too soon
Larry founded vital programs that benefited Deaf people and their professional fields. For example, Larry worked with teachers for the Deaf in special education. He was considered the “major architect” of the groundbreaking California State University, Northridge Deaf Studies Program, the very first in the world. Then, he became the chair of the program. Imagine, this was before Gallaudet University, the world’s only liberal arts Deaf college, began thinking about such a program. -- Roma News-Tribune
Composers Inspirations In Performers Interpretations Opens 10th Season Of INTERHARMONY Carnegie Hall Series, November 5
Dr. DMITRY RACHMANOV, piano is Chair of Keyboard Studies at California State University, Northridge. A sought-after performer, master class clinician, adjudicator and lecturer, Dr. Rachmanov has served on the faculties of Manhattan School of Music and Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, and has been a guest artist/lecturer/clinician at The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, Eastman School of Music, Royal Northern College of Music (UK), Shanghai and Beijing Central Conservatories. Rachmanov has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, London's Barbican and South Bank Centres, at venues across Europe and Asia, and has collaborated as a soloist with the Ukraine National Symphony, and National Orchestra of Porto, among others. He has recorded for Naxos, Parma, Master Musicians and Vista Vera labels. An active member of the American Liszt Society, Dmitry Rachmanov is the president of the society's Southern California chapter. His festivals include InterHarmony in Italy, Adamant in Vermont; In the summer of 2019 he was a resident at the Brahmshouse in Baden-Baden, Germany. He has served as a Co-Director of the ChamberFest @ CSUN Festival since 2019. A proponent of Russian repertoire, Rachmanov gave the US premiere of Boris Pasternak Piano Sonata, broadcast by the NPR, and he is a founding member and President of the Scriabin Society of America. His April 2014 commemorative all-Scriabin program at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall was described as "a 'poem of ecstasy' in every sense: giant in conception, quantity, quality, execution, thoughtfulness, and sensitivity" by the New York Concert Review. He is in the process of recording a video anthology of Alexander Scriabin's piano works. Dr. Rachmanov is a recipient of numerous awards, among them "Jerome Richfield Memorial Scholar" at CSUN and receiving an "Outstanding CAPMT Member State Recognition Award" by California Association of Professional Music Teachers. -- Broadway World
Ranking Every Team in Men’s College Basketball, From UNC (No. 1) to Hartford (No. 363)
344. Cal State Northridge (11th in Big West) -- Sports Illustrated
A Halloween haunt for local prep star & his family
Harvard-Westlake's Brady Dunlap is one of the top prep hoopers in LA, but he also hosts one of the coolest Halloween houses you'll see. With help from his dad, former CSUN assistant coach Jeff Dunlap, they did their best to scare Jill Painter Lopez -- CBS News Los Angeles
John Rigney Believes That Playing Hard But Working Harder Pays Off
Friedman was a senior at Cal State Northridge in 1983 when he answered a job board posting for a part-time intern at Jess Morgan & Co. Rigney interviewed him, and he got the job. Four years later, when Rigney left the company, Friedman assumed many of his responsibilities and, as time went by, he began to feel the same frustrations that drove Rigney to go independent. So, in 1993, Friedman joined John Rigney Business Management and it became Rigney/Friedman. -- Variety
John Rigney Believes That Playing Hard But Working Harder Pays Off
Friedman was a senior at Cal State Northridge in 1983 when he answered a job board posting for a part-time intern at Jess Morgan & Co. Rigney interviewed him, and he got the job. Four years later, when Rigney left the company, Friedman assumed many of his responsibilities and, as time went by, he began to feel the same frustrations that drove Rigney to go independent. So, in 1993, Friedman joined John Rigney Business Management and it became Rigney/Friedman. -- Connecticut Post
The Valley is where L.A.’s mayoral race could be won or lost
Rep. Karen Bass was married for several years to a Cal State Northridge graduate from the San Fernando Valley, and they lived in the city of San Fernando for a time. Her work on protesting abuses by the Los Angeles Police Department regularly linked her up with activists from the area. -- Los Angeles Times
Alive Music Orchestra to salute veterans with USO big band concert
Salamone, who also serves as pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Dixon, has had a lifelong interest in music, which led to gigs singing with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, performing in musicals and fronting bands. He has a bachelor’s degree in music from California State University, Northridge. -- The Reporter