Singing wasn’t something Taylor Broom thought about; it was something she naturally did. As a young girl, she skied on the slopes of Whitetail in southern Pennsylvania, humming and singing songs from musicals such as “Annie” and “Wicked.” Broom, a third-year psychology student known on stage as Temme Scott, will perform a secret original song […]
Author Archives: Victoria Vallecorse
‘An Evening of Magic’ to fuse magicians’ personalities with performance
Alan Chien remembers being astonished by magic. Out on the schoolyard in 2007, he stood among a crowd of excited elementary school students. He witnessed one of his classmates transform four different playing cards into the same card: the king of spades. Chien asked the classmate how he performed the card trick, but he refused […]
Sounds of Schoenberg: The Scottish fiddle
When Georgia Broughton decided to learn the Scottish fiddle, she went straight to Scotland. This was the farthest she had ever traveled alone, and she did not know what to expect in an unfamiliar land. Yet, once greeted by the angular landscape of the Scottish Highlands, it was clear to Broughton that she had to […]
Alumna showcases art worldwide, stays in LA for dynamic environment
The sights and sounds of Whitney Bedford’s studio disappear. With her first brush strokes, the UCLA alumna is transported into the world of her artwork, where she said paint and her inner emotions intertwine and manifest themselves as one on a blank canvas. After she graduated in 2003, Bedford’s art has been featured in exhibitions […]
Student finds voice through radio show hosting, radio-charity program
Samantha Stewart returns to her dorm room at the end of the day, picks out one of the four blankets laying on her bed, then proceeds to her desk. With her microphone plugged into her laptop, the third-year psychology student opens a recording software and throws the blanket over her head and computer screen to […]
Act III Theatre Ensemble revamps ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’
Room A32 of the Humanities Building is filled with busy Bruins scribbling lecture notes during the day. By night, the chairs and tables are moved to the classroom’s outer edges and a keyboardist installs herself near the professor’s wooden lectern. In the center of the room, student actors rehearse in front of a whiteboard backdrop. […]