FOUR LEADERS NAMED IN ARTS.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - Four new directors have taken charge of the choir, orchestra, visual arts and city players programs at the Palmdale Playhouse. Wayne Wilson, the new musical director for the Palmdale Youth and Community Choir, served as the music director of the choir from 1996 through 1999. He is a graduate of Mt. San Antonio College Mt. San Antonio College (commonly called Mt. SAC; pronounced as the word "sack") is a community college located in the Los Angeles suburb of Walnut, California, next to California State Polytechnic University, Pomona which is just over a hill. Mt. , where he majored in voice and minored in piano and guitar. He holds a bachelor's degree in communications from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona History W.K. Kellogg develops Arabian horse ranch W.K. Kellogg, known for his famous Corn Flakes, had a life long passion for Arabian horses. After purchasing 377 acres at a cost of $25,000 USD, Kellogg developed the land into a world-renowned Arabian horse ranch. , and is continuing his studies in music at California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , after which he plans to continue on to the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission to obtain his doctorate in choral music. Wilson is currently the music director/conductor of the Antelope Valley Children's Choir and teaches music as an adjunct faculty member at Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. . Patricia Graham is the new music director for the Palmdale Youth and Community orchestras. She served as an assistant music director of the orchestras for four years. Graham has taught music for 19 years and has performed in symphony and pit orchestras and ensembles, recently directing the pit orchestra for the Palmdale City Players musical production of ``1776.'' Currently, she works in the music department for the Antelope Valley Union High School District The Antelope Valley Union High School District (A.V.U.H.S.D.) is located in the Antelope Valley area of California, in northern Los Angeles County. The district includes eight public high schools, one trade school, and two continuation high schools in the cities of Palmdale and privately coaches music students in her home. Blythe Walker is the new director for the Palmdale City Players Youth Division. Her career is primarily as a singer/actor. She has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, on Broadway, and in many other theatrical venues. Besides performing, she is an experienced educator with 10 years of theatrical education background. This experience includes three years as director of the Opera/Music Theatre Workshop at Northern Kentucky University Northern Kentucky University is a public, co-educational university located in Highland Heights, Kentucky, seven miles (11 km) southeast of Cincinnati, Ohio. Enrollment is currently about 14,200 students. , during which she presented acting workshops for music theater performers at major universities and music conservatories. Walker is in the process of bringing together her curricula and exercises into a textbook that she plans to publish in the next two years. Kristina Holladay is the new director for the Palmdale Visual Arts Program. Holladay, whose art medium is assemblage, currently teaches biology, art I and II, illustration, art GATE, life drawing, sculpture I and II, and Advanced Placement studio art at Lancaster High School Lancaster High School may refer to:
She is also the summer arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. director of Sickle Cell Camp in Vashon Island, Wash., and has exhibited her pieces at Chico State University Hallway Exhibits, Humboldt State University, the Antelope Valley College Art Teachers show, Artlet Gallery in Lancaster, the Lancaster Museum Contemporary Art Show and the Chico State Alumni Exhibit. In April she designed and completed a 5-foot-by-9-foot mosaic mural titled ``Triune'' at White Oak property in Northridge. |
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