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harpsichord. Detail image of the Pilgrim harpsichord with six angels, each playing an instrument. The two on the left are on the lid which is usually folded back during playing. Read Previous It’s Music to My Ears: Tips for Scholarship Applicants Read Next Vocal Master Classes in Spring 2021 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

October 6, 2008 PLU music major decides to jazz up his life For Bryan McEntire, choosing to be a jazz player wasn’t much of a choice. In fact, the Pacific Lutheran University junior feels the craft chose him. He remembers his grandfather had an old saxophone in his Marysville, Washington home. So at 9 years old, he picked it up and started to play it. “I think my grandfather played it in high school, and then my uncle, and then they both stopped, so I picked up where they left off,” McEntire

person, and Lee Anne Campos, attending virtually via laptop, speak with a voice student about their song. Read Previous Introducing New Music Faculty Kate Olson Read Next Rhapsody in Zoom: Recap of Fall Master Classes 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

October 11, 2010 Music is very much alive By Chris Albert Several months ago, PLU music professor Edwin Powell began collaborating with Norwegian-born composer Ola Gjeilo. “It’s all been done over Facebook,” Powell said. The PLU Wind Ensemble, director by Ed Powell, will perform the world premiere of Ola Gjeilo’s composition. Powell, the Wind Ensemble director, asked Gjeilo for permission to adapt a chorale piece Gjeilo had done for wind ensemble. He soon found out, Gjeilo was not only

Major Minute: Brian Galante on Music Posted by: vcraker / January 13, 2022 January 13, 2022 The PLU Department of Music is a nationally-recognized center for music education and performance in which you’ll experience an incredible array of musical styles and media. Our graduates are accepted into the most prestigious graduate programs in the country and enjoy successful careers in major performance venues, teach at other universities, and serve in arts administration roles across the nation

PLU Music offers online ticket sales Posted by: taylormc / October 5, 2015 October 5, 2015 PLU Music Offers Online Ticket SalesPLU Music offers online ticket sales now for select concerts! Keep an eye on PLU’s Eventbrite homepage where you’ll find all upcoming concerts available for purchase. Upcoming concerts include: University Symphony Orchestra on Oct. 13 University Wind Ensemble on Oct. 18. Visit the SOAC website to learn more about tickets for all events in music, theatre and more. Read

Sacred concerts highlights faith and music Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / March 8, 2017 March 8, 2017 From 1965 until his death in 1974, Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington reformed both his worldview and his music. With his advancing age, failing health, and the death in of his beloved co-composer Billy Strayhorn, Ellington came to realize the impermanence of life and rekindled the deep faith instilled in him by his father. From here, Duke Ellington composed the Sacred Concerts, calling his first of

PLUtonic debuts first solo music video Posted by: Kari Plog / May 24, 2017 May 24, 2017 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (May 24, 2017)- PLUtonic, one of Pacific Lutheran University's a cappella groups, provided a healthy distraction for students nearing the end of finals week. The group debuted a music video featuring an arrangement of “Forget You” by musical artist CeeLo Green. The group posted the announcement to Facebook: Read Previous PLU engineering student

musical medium you’re interested in? I’ve always loved film scores. My favorite composer of all time is John Williams. I really do like the idea of film scoring, and I’ve taught a couple of classes on the history of the subject. This project was unique in that I wrote the music before the film ever came to be. It was a reverse process, but just because I made it that way. Dr. Gina Gillie is a Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University where she teaches horn, composition, aural skills, music

(for example, if you declare a Music major in Fall 2021, your entrance audition will occur at the end of the Fall semester, after you have the benefit of private instruction and some introductory work in music classes). For students who receive an Academic Achievement Award, the entrance audition is waived so, in a sense, the scholarship audition serves a dual purpose! What are the questions that I need to answer on the application? We ask basic questions about you and how to contact you. We also