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Music of the night
In an empty hallway, sound spills from the practice rooms in the music buildings where Professor Wendy Mason’s evening Honors Music class meets.
These special rooms are relatively sound proof to ensure that students have privacy so they may focus in a quiet space.
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Each room, filled with musicians who are divided by the instruments that they play, practice together to fine tune individual parts of a whole piece.
In addition to continuing students, members of the community who have an advanced understanding of their instruments, take the class to strengthen themselves and help the less experienced.
By the end of the night the individual groups come together as an orchestra, conducted by Mason, and perform scores like, “Hairspray.”
Top Middle: Professor Wendy Mason conducts her Honors Music class in the band room at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif. on Oct. 24, 2016. After her students have warmed up and practiced in small groups the whole band plays together until the end of class.
Below: Maudi Cameron’s piccolo lays in its case near her feet while she plays flute during her Honors Music class in the practicing rooms at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif. on Oct. 24, 2016.
