Cirque Bezerk at Club Nokia

Something out of the ordinary has arrived in LA this January. Its Cirque Bezerk, a combination of circus, burlesque, sideshow and Broadway musical. Creepy yet sexy, the show has been described by LA Times as "the sort of spectacle that Time Burton would dream up if he quit film and joined the circus" and "a post-rave, post-goth spectacle both in sound and appearance" by LA Weekly. It is a sort of Gothic Cirque Du Soleil- incredible acrobatics meet a zombie infused storyline.

Shows are held at 8:00 pm every night until January 30th. There is also a matinee performance on the 30th. Cirque Bezerk is found at Club Nokia (about 10 miles south of Occidental). Tickets cost about $80. For more information check out the Cirque Berzerk website here.

Hip Hop Musical Auditions This Friday!

Do you....

Sing? Dance? Act? Spin? Do Slam Poetry? Spoken Word?

All of the above????

COME AUDITION FOR "The Seven", written and directed by Will Power.

"The Seven," at the New York Theatre Workshop

Auditions are on Friday, January 21 at 6:00pm in Keck Theater with callbacks on January 22

and 23.

Auditions are open to any Oxy student. Glee Club, College Chorus, and Dance

Production participants are WELCOME AND ENCOURAGED to audition.

The Seven is a hip hop retelling of Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes, the

story of Oedipus' sons and their struggle for power.

Will Power (director & writer), Kathryn Bostic (music director), and Grace

Shinae Jun (choreographer).

To prepare for auditions, actors-singers-dancers should:

* select music that is related to the many styles represented in The

Seven (jazz, gospel, hip hop, R & B, ballads, blues) AND that will showcase

your particular voice and personality

* prepare Oedipus's monologue/scene p. 15-19

* be prepared to move and show your style

There will be some music and dance rehearsals between January 23 and spring

break (March 7-11). The major rehearsal period begins when Will returns on

March 14. Performances are: April 15-17, 21-23 at 7:30 pm and the night

before graduation, May 14 at 8:00 pm.

For more info:
http://departments.oxy.edu/theater/auditions/auditions_casting.htm

Coachella Lineup Announced!!

Welcome back everyone!!

Hope you all had a great, relaxing, exciting, and refreshing winter break. It is always a little weird getting back into the swing of things after having had a month to do whatever you wanted in a completely different environment.
Although this new semester promises to be a great one (starting with the brilliant weather we came back to), I hardly got through my first day of classes before a minor little distraction caught my eye: the lineup for Coachella 2011 has been announced!

From April 15th - 17th Indio, California will be rocked by prodigies such as Kings of Leon, Arcade Fire, Kanye West and The Strokes. And those are just the headliners... the really persuading part of the lineup includes bands such as Mumford & Sons, Boyz Noize, Animal Collective, Bright Eyes, Ellie Goulding and more...

The ticket might be pricy (around 280,- for a 3 day pass) but this year's performances promise to make it worth every penny. Camping is optional, and even camping right next to your car is ok with the Coachella managers. For more info on the festival, lineup, and ticket sales visit www.coachella.com.

I'll see you there!

We're Open!

Our hours might be a bit wacky this week, but we're working on it.

Come join us from 2:15-10pm today, until we get back to our regular hours:
Monday-Thursday 9:00am - 10:00pm
Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm
Saturday 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Sunday 1:00pm - 10:00pm

Winter Break!

It's that time again... the much anticipated winter break is here!

The Herklotz Music Library (and our blog) will be closed for winter break, but we'll be back in the spring. We will be open regular hours until Friday, 12/17.

Until then, read a review of the record above here and come check it out at the Music Library! Call # M2085 M3 BT 13

Headphones!

I recently acquired a pair of headphones with subwoofers in them and I was a little unhappy with the sound quality, so I started looking up reviews of better headphones. I stumbled across this website head-fi.org which is really interesting, it has about everything you could ever want to know about headphones and sound systems. I especially enjoyed this post by a headphone aficionado about his 20 favorite pairs of headphones (I know, WHO has that many headphones?!). It really makes you think about the different aspects of sound and how music can change based on how it's delivered. Enjoy.

Holiday Party at the Music Library!

And just like that, the semester is almost over. A crazy realization for some of my friends who are only here for a semester and now need to pack up their bags again and leave... it makes me very happy to know I will be staying for another semester but that doesn't mean I am not immensely looking forward to a bit of Hoidays! American finals are stressful, that's for sure, and the library seems to be jam-packed with people racing against the clock to get their work done on time.

In my case - being quite the last minute type o' girl - this meant working through many a night and handing in essays 2 minutes before the deadline. The RA's have been organizing 'study breaks' to anti-stress continuously, which although I haven't been to one of them yet, I think is an excellent idea.

Instead, Herklotz Music Library hosted an event for employees from the Music Library, CDLR, Agora, and Visual Resources Department. The festivity was organized by no other than our supervisors and they did a truly excellent job. Not only were there gingerbread houses to be decorated and cookies and pizza, there was also a photo booth for those who wanted to put this very enjoyable and relaxing day into hard copy memories. The library was beautifully decorated, exhibiting creative work of a variety of people, and it was a great opportunity to get to know other people who work in related departments to us. Oh.. and I got to taste ginger bread for the first time.... I approve!

All in all it was a fantastic day with fantastic people.