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Marching Competition and countless other awards at various competitions. “Music helps me when I have emotionally difficult times,” Takekawa explains. “Music connects me to the people whom I don’t speak the same languages. I feel more than honor for me to be able to host 65 Japanese female students at PLU this year. I see my young self because I was a band kid. And I always wish that I had this kind of opportunity, which is to make International friends through music.” PLU and the Department of Music

has continued to develop his performing career – he became the concertmaster of the Tacoma Symphony in 2000 and has been the artistic director of the Second City Chamber Series in Tacoma since 2007. His schedule keeps him busy with 30 to 50 concerts a year, while still teaching full time. Ronning’s joy is being around the students and teaching them. “Music is one of the best things you can do for your mind, body and soul,” he said. “No matter what major you take.” Yes, if you want to be a full

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. “So that style of radio is very close to my heart.” This fall, Rich is pairing their love of audio storytelling and theatre education to create an independent production of “The War of the Worlds.” Based on the H.G. Wells novel, the show’s themes include colonialism, superstitions and prejudices — topics Rich believes are still prevalent today. “I can’t speak to what H.G. Wells was thinking when he was writing it, but a lot of it is more inwardly reflective,” Rich said. “The Martians coming down

managed effectively, regardless of what is thrown at her.”  Another colleague described her as “the glue that has kept the department moving forward successfully.” Beyond the department, Mathews has served on the Global Education Committee, Faculty Affairs Committee, Long-Range Planning Committee, the Human Participants Review Board, General Education Council, IHON Steering Committee, Women’s and Gender Studies Executive Committee, and Holocaust and Genocide Studies steering committee. She is the

Richard D. Moe Organ Recital Series Posted by: Kate Williams / October 16, 2017 October 16, 2017 By Kate Williams '16Outreach ManagerThe Richard D. Moe Organ Series has an exciting line up of performances planned for the 2017-18 academic year. The upcoming October 22 performance will feature duo organists, Dana Robinson and Paul Tegels. Dana Robinson is Associate Professor of Music and Organist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Paul Tegels is Associate Professor of Music and

selections with the University Jazz Ensemble under the direction of David Deacon-Joyner.  The event will be hosted by KPLU’s Nick Morrison and broadcast live. Entering their 18th year of performing, Pearl Django continues to be one of America’s most respected and busiest Hot Club style groups. Though still strongly influenced by the music of Django Reinhardt, Pearl Django’s repertoire now includes many original compositions. Their music reaches out across the divides of taste to a wide variety of

Italian Renaissance in his 1572 setting of O magnum mysterium. The work is an exemplar of the fluid counterpoint and polyphonic style of the time. The Chorale continues with Abbie Betinis’ haunting, and often surprising, setting of In the Bleak Midwinter, and Fred Prentice’s short, animated romp through Sing We Now of Christmas. The Choir of the West The Choir of the West sings a beautiful setting of the poem What Sweeter Music by the 17th-Century English Poet, Robert Herrick. The harp accompaniment

play the flute because her sister randomly suggested it. Good call, Jodie Rottle’s sister. Rottle, who lives in Brisbane, Australia, no longer just plays the flute; she has perfected it—and she’s also seriously expanded her musical repertoire: Rottle is a soloist, a chamber musician, a music teacher and a contemporary-music specialist who has premiered works by jazz and classical composers from around the world. She has performed at venues as varied as the Brisbane Festival of Toy Music, Town Hall

Vocal Master Classes in Spring 2021 Posted by: Reesa Nelson / February 17, 2021 February 17, 2021 Dr. James L. Brown, Professor of Music and Chair of Vocal Studies has announced the list of vocal and musical talents who will be working with voice students during Spring Semester. The presenters will be: Audrey Luna, star soprano who set a world record for highest note ever performed at the Met! Luna won a Grammy Award in 2014 for Best Opera Recording of Thomas Adès’s opera The Tempest. She sings