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The Claremont Shades are happy to present the 28th SCAMFest hosted at Pomona College's gorgeous Bridges Auditorium! We hope you'll join us for an evening of thrilling a cappella performances, featuring groups from the Claremont Colleges, UCLA, USC, and UC Davis! Buy Tickets.
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Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music, this 550-seat gem of a concert hall better known as "Little Bridges," sits within the beautiful grounds of Pomona College on Fourth Street just east of College Avenue. Each year, from September through May, the College sponsors a broad spectrum of nearly 45 concerts encompassing classical, jazz, folk, Western ...
The Mabel Shaw Bridges Music Auditorium, more commonly known as Bridges Auditorium or Big Bridges (to distinguish it from nearby Bridges Hall of Music, known as Little Bridges [4]), is a 2500-seat auditorium at Pomona College in Claremont, California, United States. It was designed by William Templeton Johnson and opened in 1932.
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The auditorium was designed by architect William Templeton Johnson. Conceptually, it is as a free adaptation of Northern Italian Renaissance architecture. Johnson toured the leading concert houses of Europe before drawing his plans. Its great white columns, vaulting arches and massive wooden doors provide an imposing entrance. The foyer is grand bu...
The building he created was widely regarded as the finest hall in Southern California and quickly became one of the area's major cultural assets. The Southern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects presented a Certificate of Honor to the colleges in 1933 for the \"exceptional merit\" of the building.
Presiding over it all, brilliant in indirect lighting, is Giovanni (John) Smeraldi's 22,000-square-foot ceiling, depicting the signs of the zodiac in blue, silver and gold. It rises 55 feet above the auditorium floor and spans 120 feet with no inside supports. Within, the hall is aesthetically and acoustically gratifying. A 500-seat balcony cantile...
Smeraldi's ceiling has continued to intrigue visitors, including astronomer Dr. E.C. Krupp, director of the Griffith Observatory, who photographed the ceiling in August 1998. While the position of the stars is fanciful, with neither significance nor astronomical integrity, it inspires interest and awe. The constellations depicted include Aries (ram...
From that beginning, the idea was to create something more than just a building; over the decades since, it has become a statement of faith, foresight and imagination more eloquent than the countless thousands of words that have been written in its praise. It has become a symbol of The Claremont Colleges and one of the most photographed buildings i...
Also performing in concert at Bridges Auditorium have been many of the popular bands of the day. Among them are Fiona Apple, Morrissey, Dave Matthews, Violent Femmes, Third Eye Blind, Gavin DeGraw, John Mayer, Willie Nelson, Black Eyed Peas and Cocteau Twins. Rehearsal space has been provided for others, including White Zombie, Stone Temple Pilots,...
The Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music, more commonly known as Little Bridges (to distinguish it from nearby Bridges Auditorium, known as Big Bridges), is a concert hall at Pomona College in Claremont, California, designed by Myron Hunt and opened in 1915.
The Mabel Shaw Bridges Music Auditorium at Pomona College was built in 1931 at a cost of $600,000. It opened in 1932 with Artur Rodzinski conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, a performance that led to a continuing association between the orchestra and The Claremont Colleges.
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