Pepperdine Magazine

Hollie Tucker shines a light on the talents of Houston high school students By Sarah Fisher To hear the theatre community described as a family is as commonplace as an actor’s bad reaction to “good luck!” But as a high school theatre director in Houston, Texas, Hollie Tucker (’05) ensures that the theatre truly becomes like family [...]

Henry Price and Heidelberg Summer Music Students Retrace History in Austria By Audra Quinn “Picture this…” Henry Price, director of the Heidelberg Summer Music Program and Seaver College professor of music, told the 34 students in this year’s program. “Late November 1779, the traveling theatrical company of Emanuel Schikaneder—who would create The Magic Flute with Mozart a dozen [...]

Sara Banta Is Instrumental to Young Rex Lewis-Clack’s Piano Success By Audra Quinn As Rex Lewis-Clack enters Pepperdine’s Smothers Theatre in Malibu, he gropes for the wall, disoriented, and appearing to have no idea where he is. You’d never guess that he comes here every week, and has for the last four years. With his mom Cathy [...]

A conversation on the classics There’s a reason some books fall under the category “assigned reading:” the pages drag on endlessly, nothing makes sense, and on occasion, they’re just plain boring. As Woody Allen sardonically advises in Annie Hall, “Just don’t take any class where you have to read Beowulf.” At Seaver College, however, there are classes [...]

A young woman contemplates the empty wall of her new condo, wishing the Audrey Hepburn poster from college would still suffice. Her neighbor roams the echoing rooms of a city gallery, disheartened by price tags affixed to the paintings. Parvez Taj (MBA '05) feels their frustration.

It's the age-old story: kid with a voice packs his bags and moves to New York, armed only with talent and a dream of making it big. This story, however, is set to the music of ABBA.