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collaborates with university, community, and professional musical organizations, including Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Northwest Sinfonietta. Choral Union has appeared at many prestigious conference and festival events, toured Europe multiple times, and recorded three albums. Participants have an enjoyable and deeply moving experience as part of this ensemble. Hear what some of our alumni members—not all of them music majors—have to say about their participation.Making music

inquisitive prompts from a card game called The Ungame: from, “How do you feel when someone calls you names? How do you react?” to, “Do your friends ever try to talk you into doing things that are wrong?” Then they moved on to another student, and another question. “I played Nirvana on my DVD player,” said event organizer and host Professor Mahlon Meyer. “When they heard the music, they stood up and moved. Then when I stopped the music, they quickly found a place to sit down. They all really had a good

PLU Wind Ensemble: Musica Ignota Posted by: vcraker / November 18, 2021 November 18, 2021 The PLU Wind Ensemble performed the world premiere of Ingrid Stolzel’s “Musica Ignota” on October 9, 2021. Stolzel traveled to PLU to attend the premiere and work with the PLU wind ensemble and Professor of Music Edwin Powell in advance. A composition almost 1,000 years in the making, “Musica Ignota” is based on the 11th-century Medieval composer/mystic Hildegard von Bingen. It is profound for many reasons