Prescott based Music Department has full slate of concerts and musical theatre performances scheduled for this fall; there is no music department on the Verde Campus or at Sedona Center
This fall Yavapai Community College will offer 58 music/voice courses on the Prescott Campus. According to its registration data (see below), there are no similar courses being offered on the Verde Campus or at the Sedona Center.
For the last half century it appears that the Community College has shown little or no interest in seriously developing music education courses anywhere but on its Prescott Campus. For students in the Sedona area, to participate means a round-trip drive of from 100 to 150 miles to take a course. For most in the Verde Valley, the dangerous drive and the obstacles created by going over Mingus mountain on 89A mean their opportunity for music education is extremely limited, if not outright barred.
The Community College has never offered an explanation about why it does not create a music department and promote music education on either the Verde Campus or at the Sedona Center.
On the Prescott Campus, the Community College Music Department has announced a full slate of concerts and musical theater performances this fall that it says will serve two ends: “Showcasing students and entertaining the community” (mostly the Prescott community, no doubt).
The Music Department also announced it will have four choral, five instrumental and one musical theater group participating in a wide range of performances, “from jazz to American classics and from symphonic instrumental music to musical productions of “It’s A Wonderful Life” and Handel’s “Messiah.””
The music department’s fall performance schedule is available on the YCPAC website, www.ycpac.com. It appears there is at least one event scheduled on the Verde Valley Campus.
