It takes one to know one. That could be a theme for the University of La Verne's Music Department. The professors and students of the department have been releasing music on compact disc and cassette.
Jazz has often been classified as the music heard when riding in an elevator. The kind of music that can only be tolerated for the short ride between floors, but by the reactions from the audience at Monday night's performance, there is no way an elevator could hold this kind of excitement.
Not only does senior Mario Lopez play the electric and acoustic guitar, he also knows how to play the clarinet, bass, baritone and congas, and he writes music. One might consider him musically inclined.
Anyone hearing the beat of drums or the harmony of strings and horns near Founders Hall Auditorium is likely hearing the ULV Jazz Ensemble as it prepares for its fall concert.