MEET THE BEAT TEEN MUSICIANS TO PERFORM IN FREE RECITAL AT CALARTS.Byline: Sharon Cotal Staff WriterVALENCIA - The CalArts Community Arts Partnership The Community Arts Partnership (usually known as CAP) was established in 1990,and is the first program of its kind in the U.S. The program links the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) to community art centers and public schools throughout Los Angeles County as part of an will present a free recital Saturday featuring participants in the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. Arts Partnership chamber music program. The concert will be staged at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Main Gallery at California Institute of the Arts California Institute of the Arts known as CalArts U.S. private institution of higher learning in Valencia. Created in 1961 through the merger of two other art institutes, it was the first in the U.S. , 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia. The chamber music program offers workshops in strings - violin, cello cello or 'cello: see violin. cello or violoncello Bowed, stringed instrument, the bass member of the violin family. Its full name means “little violone”—i.e., “little big viol. , viola and bass; composition; percussion; improvisation and rhythm; and West African West Africa A region of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea. It was largely controlled by colonial powers until the 20th century. West African adj. & n. drumming to local youths, who will perform pieces they have been learning in class at this works-in-progress concert. ``The teachers usually have the students start out with something very classic and traditional, and move toward something fun and contemporary,'' said CAP Public Programs Coordinator Marlo Hampton. The CAP program, which offers classes in photography, video, dance, digital arts, public art, printmaking printmaking Art form consisting of the production of images, usually on paper but occasionally on fabric, parchment, plastic, or other support, by various techniques of multiplication, under the direct supervision of or by the hand of the artist. , puppetry puppetry Art of creating and manipulating puppets in a theatrical show. Puppets are figures that are moved by human rather than mechanical aid. They may be controlled by one or several puppeteers, who are screened from the spectators. , theater, animation and writing in addition to its music courses, is open to local high school students who would like to bridge the gap between high school and college art courses. ``It opens doors for high school students to get college training in the arts,'' Hampton said. ``There are no requirements for entry into the program, but we usually get the kids who have exceeded the art classes offered at their high schools and would like to do more.'' The music courses offered are not for beginners, but rather for those kids who are already taking lessons and want the opportunity to train with a college instructor and work with other kids, Hampton said. In addition to music, the most popular classes in the program are the new digital arts course, which adds technology to the artistic mix, and the photography courses. Students in the photography courses have their art displayed at bus shelters bus shelter bus n → abribus m bus shelter n → Wartehäuschen nt bus shelter n → pensilina ( throughout the city. ``It gives them an opportunity to display their art in public, so they learn about censorship and setting limits in the art world,'' Hampton said. The CAP program was recently selected as a semifinalist for the national Coming Up Taller Award, which recognizes outstanding youth arts programs, and is now registering students for next semester's courses. For information about courses offered next semester or about Saturday's recital, call CalArts' CAP office at (661) 222-2708. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Students in the Santa Clarita Valley Arts Partnership chamber music program learn West African drumming, among other instruments and musical styles, in partnership with CalArts. |
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