Program set for three nights at the Performing Arts Center (Here is Saturday’s 7 p.m. show)
Tickets range from $20 to $35 per night. For ticket information, click here.
Archive for Performing Arts Center – Page 5
So far, 1 in Sedona, 1 on Verde Campus, 13 on Prescott Campus
The schedule for sharing major cultural events throughout Yavapai County during the months of April and May has been released by the College. So far, it appears that of the 15 events scheduled during those two months, only 2 are scheduled for the Verde Valley.
No others are scheduled for anywhere else in the County other than on the Prescott Campus.
The following is the summary published by the College of the forthcoming cultural events, which are subsidized by all the residents of Yavapai County. However, most or them are enjoyed by only a few who have reasonable access to them who live in Prescott/Prescott Valley at the 1,100 seat Community College dinner theatre on the Prescott Campus.
Outstanding concert; small but deeply appreciative audience
The Yavapai Community College Community Chorale, Women’s Chorale, and Symphonic band presented the “Homeland: Veterans Day Salute Concert,” Thursday evening, November 5 in the Community Room on the Verde Valley Campus. A small but very appreciative audience thoroughly enjoyed the concert.
The 57 member (40 for this concert) Community Chorale, directed by Dr. Judith E. Burns, sang a variety of patriotic songs including “A Tribute to the Arms Services,” “Shenandoah,” and “Give me Your Tired, Your Poor.” The 15 member Women’s Chorale, directed by Arlene Hardy, charmed the audience with special renditions of “Johnny Aroo,” “I hear America Singing,” and the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
The 22 member symphonic band, directed by Maurice Terrell, played a wide-range of music from the stirring “In Storm and Sunshine” march to the emotionally moving tribute to military veterans of the Vietnam War, “Mekong.” The three groups joined in a number of other patriotic musical presentations.
The excellent narration for the program was provided by Dr. Craig Ralston, Yavapai College Dean for Arts and Humanities. Ralston, who joined the Yavapai faculty in July, 2014, is responsible for curricula in art, music, and humanities including art history, creative writing, history, humanities, philosophy, religion, Spanish, and theater. He obviously worked very hard to put together this program for the Verde Valley Campus.
Disappointing turnout. The turnout of local residents for the program was disappointing, with an estimated 25-30 in attendance. However, with around 60 singers and a 20 piece orchestra in the community room, there wasn’t room for many more concert goers.
Community Room completely inadequate. The need for a small 350 seat auditorium on the Verde Campus has never been more evident than it was at this concert. The Community room is simply not equipped for a concert program of this magnitude and quality. It does not have a stage that can accommodate such a program, seating is far from acceptable, and the ability to effectively utilize visuals such as lighting is almost nonexistent. It is not an attractive or comfortable venue for performing arts programs. (The College recently invested about $5 million in the Prescott campus Performing Arts Center to upgrade seats, lighting, sound, stage, etc.)
College administration ignores need since 2008. Verde residents have called for construction of an adequate small on-campus performance hall facility since 2008, when a comprehensive land-use study incorporating views from throughout the Verde Valley was presented to the College Governing Board. As with other recommendations in that study, it has been ignored by the Wills’ administration.
October/November Special Events illustrate the enormous disparity between campus development on the East and West sides of Yavapai County
Yavapai Community College has released its schedule of special events for the months of October and November. As you can see from the chart that follows, there are eleven special events planned for the Prescott Campus and only two for the Verde Campus in Clarkdale. None are planned for the Sedona Center even though taxpayers in the Sedona Taxing District pay over $7.3 million annually to support the College.
As those who have attended the special events can attest to, on the Prescott Campus you can order a dinner and a show. It is the only Community College in the nation that has invested $5 million dollars in its student auditorium to convert it into a dinner theatre.
On the Verde Campus you can purchase a can of pop for a dollar at the two events.
Dinner and show: As advertised on the College web site.
September and October calendars shows huge difference in College providing special events to East and West sides of the County: 20 for the West side; 1 for the East side
The September and October special events schedule published by the College shows the huge difference in its view of where cultural events should be produced. According to the schedule it has posted, so far there are 20 cultural events scheduled for the West side of the County during September and October to be held in the 1105 student auditorium (redeveloped into a Community College dinner theatre). Only a single event is scheduled so far for the Verde Campus, which will be held in the large multi-use classroom in Building M (canned pop, possibly). In fact, a check today (9/24/2015) by the Blog of the Verde Campus web site shows no events as being scheduled so far.
The following is a chart of the announced programs for September and October, 2015.
Construction of $750,000 elevator for Performing Arts Center on Prescott campus begun
Photo from Governing Board agenda of February, 2014.
It was announced at the December Governing Board meeting that construction has begun on an elevator for the Performing Arts Center. Budget estimates for this project put the total cost at around $750,000 (see February 2014 proposed capital budget in February, 2014 Governing Board agenda). Over the last four years, the Community College has allocated an estimated $5 million dollars in upgrades to the Performing Arts Center on the Prescott campus. The facility is used almost entirely by Prescott and Prescott Valley residents. Most of the cost of the upgrades is being paid by Yavapai County taxpayers.
Performing Arts Center on Prescott campus adds wine dinner to a dozen programs
The Yavapai Community College Performing Arts Center on the Prescott campus has announced that it is adding a wine dinner as a component of its upcoming season of performances. The Center, which loses hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, announced an outstanding line-up of programs for the coming year. For more information, please click here.
College announces series of programs in response to criticism over excluding Verde Valley from major cultural events
In response to increasing pressure by Verde Valley residents over Prescott based administrators concentrating almost all major cultural events on the Prescott campus, the Community College has announced it will bring a series of cultural performances to the “East Yavapai County” during the 2014-15 academic year. The first of these performances is the T.S. Monk Jr. Jazz Trio, which is scheduled to perform Friday evening, August 22 on the Verde campus. The College has said that later in the season, performances such as The Man in the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt, Moscow Nights & The Golden Gates, Ahn Trio and Reveille 3, and an Andrews Sisters Tribute will be brought to “East Yavapai County.”
Whether the future performances are free or a fee will be charged has not been made public. (There was general confusion over the Monk Jazz concert when the College first announced a ticket fee and then a week before the concert changed its mind and offered the concert free.) The College has also not made public where the various future performances will be held.
Late change in whether to charge for event explains confusion
Yavap
ai Community College is sponsoring one of those rare concerts on the Verde campus on Friday, August 22 at 7 p.m. at the Maybery Pavilion with the T.S. Monk Jr. Jazz Trio. In a Community College flyer tickets for the concert were advertised at $20 and $10 dollars. In an advertisement in the Sunday, August 17 Verde Independent, readers were urged to go to www.ycpac.com for tickets. Once there, you learn the tickets are FREE. However, nothing in the newspaper advertisement suggests they are free. An email sent by the College on Saturday, August 16 to a number of Verde residents informed them that the concert is free.
Reliable sources say that the decision was made Friday afternoon, August 15 to change the concert from one with paid tickets to a free event. Therefore, the confusing print advertising. We have been assured that the event is FREE to the public on the Verde campus.
However, if you want to see the trio a day earlier (August 21), they will perform at 7:30 at the Performing Arts Center on the Prescott campus. Tickets for the performance in Prescott are $25 and $48 dollars per seat.
T.S. Monk Jazz Trio to perform free concert on Verde Campus, Friday, August 22, 7 p.m.
The T.S. Monk Jazz Trio will perform a free concert at the outdoor Charles Mabery Pavilion at the Verde Campus in Clarkdale, on Friday, August 22. The show begins at 7 p.m.
The trio has received rave reviews in the Hollywood Reporter, Variety, the L.A. Times, and others. There have been sold out concert hall shows across the United States, Europe, South America and the Middle East.
This should be an outstanding concert!