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Music and Medicine: Elizabeth Larios ’21 returns to Namibia to research infections and teach marimba Posted by: Logan Seelye / November 2, 2022 Image: Fulbright-recipient Elizabeth Larios ’21 (PLU Photo/John Froschauer) November 2, 2022 By Anneli HaralsonResoLute Guest WriterElizabeth Larios ’21 decided she was going to be a neurosurgeon in the fourth grade. That’s when her class took a field trip to a science museum and Larios saw an exhibit about the human brain.Returning home that day, she
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Wind Ensemble’s World Premiere of Echo Chambers Posted by: Kate Williams / March 14, 2019 March 14, 2019 By Kate Williams '16The PLU Wind Ensemble performed the world premiere of Echo Chambers on March 10, 2019. Echo Chambers came about after a conversation during a national conference in 2017 between Ed Powell, Professor of Music and Director of Bands at PLU, and Peter Van Zandt Lane, Assistant Professor of Composition and Director of the Dance Center for New Music at the University of Georgia
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Fall 2020 Masterclass Announcement Posted by: Reesa Nelson / September 4, 2020 September 4, 2020 The Department of Music is excited to announce some of our special lecturers and master class leaders who will work with music students in all areas including voice, instruments, and composition. This incredible group of professionals has been recruited by our dedicated faculty for the benefit of music students. While the COVID-19 pandemic has made some aspects of teaching and learning more
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Universal language: how teaching music in rural Namibia was a life-changing experience for Jessa Delos Reyes ’24 Posted by: mhines / May 20, 2024 Image: Jessa Delos Reyes ’24 is a music education major from Tacoma. (Photo by Sy Bean/PLU) May 20, 2024 By Emily Holt, MFA '16PLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer When the principal of N/a’an ku sê, a rural school in Namibia that serves the San people, asked PLU music education major Jessa Delos Reyes ’24 to expand their existing music program
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Universal language: how teaching music in rural Namibia was a life-changing experience for Jessa Delos Reyes ’24 Posted by: Zach Powers / April 16, 2024 Image: Jessa Delos Reyes ’24 is a music education major from Tacoma. (Photo by Sy Bean/PLU) April 16, 2024 By Emily Holt, MFA '16PLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer When the principal of N/a’an ku sê, a rural school in Namibia that serves the San people, asked PLU music education major Jessa Delos Reyes ’24 to expand their existing
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Professor of Composition, Greg Youtz.”2018 CBDNA ProgramFrederick Street – Gregory Youtz, PLU Professor of Music and Composition World Premiere El Chupacabra – Emilio José González, ’17 PLU Alum Ron Gerhardstein, Conductor (PLU Associate Director of Bands) To the Mountain – Jerry Kracht, PLU Professor Emeritus World Premiere …and this is most certainly true – James Stephenson Pixels – Jess Kady, ’11 PLU Alum World Premiere “It is my hope that by putting together this program, we can show the nation that
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Horn & Fixed Media Premiere at Octave 9 in Seattle Posted by: Reesa Nelson / October 5, 2022 October 5, 2022 Professor of Music Dr. Gina Gillie recently premiered her first electroacoustic music composition at Seattle Symphony’s Octave 9. Titled “Pale Blue Dot for solo horn and fixed media,” the piece is inspired by the 1991 photograph taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft as well as Carl Sagan’s prose reflecting on the image. In the photo, Earth appears as a single pixel – “a mote of dust
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hosts Tamana Girls’ High School Band in friendship concert Read Next Elise Rodrigues ’15 voted Eatonville School District Teacher of the Year LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024 PLU Music Announces Inaugural Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and Performance January 29, 2024 PLU’s Weathermon Jazz Festival to Feature Acclaimed Musician Aubrey Logan February 28, 2023
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The Lagerquist Organ, recently featured on “Pipedreams,” showcasing David Deacon-Joyner’s work, “Un poco Bud” Posted by: marshrl / July 12, 2019 Image: Fuchs organ in Lagerquist Hall of the Mary Baker Russell Music Center at PLU. (Photo/John Froschauer) July 12, 2019 Listen to the June 17th program of “Pipedreams” from “American Public Media” called “All That Jazz.” One of the pieces included in the program is David Deacon-Joyner’s composition “Un poco Bud” that was recorded in November of 2008
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he talked about what inspires his musical compositions today. “I really didn’t have any particular gift in that area,” Reid said of his mother’s innate talent with the paintbrush. “But I did want to transfer what she did into music. “I found that I liked expression in modern music,” he continued. “I know there were people who didn’t like modern music, but it just seemed natural to me.” The genesis of his career in composition came in junior high, when he composed a guitar piece. He still has the
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