The deadline for Spring Sing 2011 entries was fast approaching, but Courtney Randall still hadn’t finished composing her song. Randall, then a first-year student, tried to rhyme lyrics and fit them over a guitar melody in her dorm room and in the middle of monotonous lectures. She had procrastinated on her Spring Sing entry, and […]
Category Archives: Music
Songs and Stories: Bruin Harmony
Bruin Harmony, the only all-male a cappella group on campus, shares a song and the story of their upcoming feature on hit show “Bones”. The episode airs on FOX, May 19 at 8/7c.
Songs & Stories: Temme Scott
Temme Scott, also known as Taylor Broom, a third-year Psychology major, performs her original song “One Not Many”. She shares the thought process that went into creating the song. Scott will be performing as a soloist in 2016’s Spring Sing.
Songs & Stories: Laura Savage
Laura Savage, a third-year Sociology major and Theater minor performs her song “Hometown”, sharing the process behind writing the song. Savage will be performing as a soloist in 2016’s Spring Sing.
Songs & Stories: Griffith Clawson
Singing in Spring Sing 2016, second-year student Griffith Clawson taught himself how to play the guitar, writing and composing his own music. Watch as Griffith reveals what inspires his songs and how he started performing.
Songs and Stories: Eva Barrosse & David Miller
Eva Barrosse and David Miller perform and share the origins of “Nick’s House,” which takes inspiration from their high school experiences. Barrosse and Miller will be performing this year in Spring Sing as a duet.
Hip-hop musical confronts gang violence and racism
Brandon Rainey attended three funerals last summer. Two of his former students and a brother of one of his students had been shot and killed during the 100 days and 100 nights of violence declared by two feuding gangs in South Los Angeles in late summer of 2015. They had been shot standing in front […]