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| AUDITIONS FOR PERFORMANCE DEGREE SET FOR NEXT SEMESTER! |
| Auditions for entry into the Commercial Music Performance degree program, Spring 2011, will take place in early December 2010, on campus at LSCPA. Major areas of study include guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboards, and session vocals. All instrumentalists will be required to play along with tracks available for download on this site (Click "Audition on Premise" under "Audition and Interview Information" on the homepage of this site). Vocalists are asked to prepare two selections and bring either sheet music for accompaniment or tracks (CD). To schedule an audition, call 409-984-6520. |
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| GET CERTIFICATION IN LIVE SOUND! |
| Start your live sound education with the Live Sound certificate. Spring of 2010 will be the first semester that the new Live Sound/Sound Reinforcement Certificate is offered at Lamar State College Port Arthur, with the next certification class beginning in the Fall of 2010. We are so excited to be the second college in all of Texas to offer this certificate. Learn how to rig and run sound for concert tours, arenas, places of worship, theaters, theme parks, and much more. Learn to design, install, optimize, operate, and maintain sound reinforcement systems of all sizes in real world environments! Call 409.984.6520 for more information. |
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| LSC-PA Studio Facilities Offer Multiple Platforms |
| It is primary to our mission here at LSC-PA that our students graduate into the real world with hands-on knowledge of a wide variety of recording platforms. Studio A is oufitted with a Mac-based Pro Tools and Nuendo control. Studio B offers PC-based Pro Tools and Cubase 4. Studio C avails our students to 10 IMac workstations with Pro Tools LE. Finally, Analog has joined the family of LSC-PA Recording Studio platforms with the addition of a MCI-JH24 Analog 24 Track Tape Recorder, a MCI-Autolocator III, and a Peavy AMR 1600 Audio Console. Students now have the opportunity to learn how to record by tape, and digitally via Pro Tools (both Mac and PC), Nuendo, and Cubase 4. |
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About Lamar State College - Port Arthur
 Lamar State College - Port Arthur, a two-year, state-supported institution, is a member of The Texas State University System. Located in the city of Port Arthur, an industrial and cultural center of Southeast Texas, the Lamar State College - Port Arthur campus contains 22 buildings situated on approximately 40 acres. The city of Port Arthur features modern public schools, churches, shopping districts and recreation areas serving a community of approximately 70,000 persons. The greater metropolitan area, known as  the Golden Triangle, includes the cities of Beaumont, Orange, Vidor, Port Neches, Nederland, Groves and Bridge City. All lie within 25 miles of Port Arthur and form the heart of the upper Texas Gulf Coast where approximately 350,000 people live.
Lamar State College - Port Arthur offers general academic course leading to Associate of Arts and Associate of Science degrees. Courses for transfer to four-year institutions are offered in accounting, economics, anthropology, art, government, health, home economics, physical education, physics, history, speech, computer science, mathematics, psychology, biology, chemistry, geography, geology, sociology, criminal justice, music, drama, English and Spanish.
 The technical education curriculum at Lamar State College - Port Arthur includes programs in commercial music, accounting, automotive technology, computer information systems, cosmetology, industrial instrumentation, legal assistant, management development, medical assistant, medical office administration, microcomputer support specialist, substance abuse counseling, surgical technology, vocational nursing and registered nursing.
For more information about the college, See the Lamar State College - Port Arthur website.
Call Mike Judy, Director of Music Programs and Commercial Music at 409.984.6520 or Jeff Sturms, Chief Audio Engineer at 409.984.6343. |
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