$5-million gift for USC music
USC trustee Flora L. Thornton, for whom the university’s Thornton School of Music was named, has donated $5 million to kick-start a campaign aimed at the creation of a new music building on the campus.
The projected cost of the building is $70 million. USC hopes it will open in 2010.
In 1999, Thornton gave the university $25 million, the largest donation at that time to a school of music in the United States, and it was at that time that the university renamed the school. Thornton has also given money to the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
-- Chris Pasles
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