“Giving birth to our baby” is how Skip Sams, senior music major, describes the premiere of his senior recital: “Awake!,” A Modern Irish Folk Opera, which will be performed on March 15-16 at 7:30 p.m. and March 17 at 2 p.m. in Dailey Theatre.
They are not the stereotypical farmer’s daughters from Ohio, in fact they are quite the opposite. Mary Anne Sellers, Melissa Dillon and Elizabeth Halterman are doing what most La Verne students would love to do: escaping from reality to fulfill their dreams.
When Ray Garza, junior, sits in front of his keyboard and begins playing one of his favorite songs from “Jekyll and Hyde,” the room suddenly quiets and his once boisterous friends are now attentively listening.