City of Los Angeles Presents Proclamation for 'Musicians Institute 30th Anniversary Day' on August 25th in School's Main Concert Hall at 11am.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- Musicians Institute The Musicians Institute is a Hollywood, California Contemporary Music College. Formed in 1977 as the Guitar Institute of Technology, co-founded by jazz guitarist Howard Roberts, the Institute eventually grew into a comprehensive contemporary music college that (www.mi.edu) will be presented a Mayor's Proclamation marking August 25th as "Musicians Institute 30th Anniversary Day" in the City of Los Angeles
Thirty years ago, in March 1977, the Guitar Institute of Technology opened its doors in rented studio space off Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades. . GIT was the brainchild of music businessman Pat Hicks Hicks , Edward 1780-1849. American painter of primitive works, notably The Peaceable Kingdom, of which nearly 100 versions exist. and influential guitarist-educator Howard Roberts Howard Roberts (2 October 1929 – 28 June 1992) was an influential American jazz guitarist, educator and session musician. Roberts was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and began playing guitar at age 8. By the time he was 15 he was playing professionally locally. , who teamed up to expand Howard's highly successful weekend guitar seminars into a full-time, one-year program. GIT's revolutionary curriculum was designed to provide students with the technical training, musical knowledge and practical experience needed for professional-level performance. Traditional classrooms were replaced by intensive hands-on workshops under the close supervision of some of the world's best guitarists. The idea quickly took off, and in short order GIT was joined by Bass (BIT) and Percussion (PIT) to form Musicians Institute (MI). Today, MI offers Bachelor of Music and Associate of Arts Associate of arts and Associate of science are two-year undergraduate degrees offered by many community colleges or junior colleges in the United States. Such degrees transfer to four-year institutions which offer full bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees. degrees as well as certificate programs in guitar, bass, percussion, voice and keyboards, with additional degrees and certificates in audio engineering, original music production, music video and film, music business and guitar-making. Facilities have grown along with the student population - now more than 1100 students per quarter - to include over 75,000 square feet of studios, performance venues, classrooms and practice rooms across several blocks in central Hollywood. Thousands of MI graduates are spread out all over the globe, working in every part of the music industry. |
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