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, Relay For Life was started in Tacoma in 1985. In 2016, more than 5,000 community-based Relay For Life events will be produced in more than 20 countries. PLU’s rendition of Relay For Life features a 6-hour team walk around the university’s upper campus. Festivities will began at 5:30 p.m. in Red Square with a performance by the PLU Jazz Ensemble and the opening ceremony will begin at 6 p.m. Teams will then walk until midnight, while simultaneously enjoying student performances ranging HERmonic and

Matt. I’d like to introduce you to our blog readers, who are reading this to learn more about you and your Benson fellowships in business and economic history. You two were the first to be selected for these fellowships, and you worked during Summer and Fall 2016 with Peter Grosvenor and me. I’d like you to begin by introducing yourself, and going over some of the traditional background stats that define you. Will you go first, Marc?” Marc: “Hi, everyone. I have been at PLU now for four years, and

PLU to Host Holiday Events Throughout December Posted by: Zach Powers / November 30, 2015 Image: Christmas tree lighting in Red Square at PLU on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. (PLU Photo/John Froschauer) November 30, 2015 By Matthew Salzano '17PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Nov. 30, 2015)- It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas at Pacific Lutheran University. Throughout its 125-year history, PLU has developed numerous holiday pastimes that honor a variety of traditions, cultures

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well, and as young as possible. So many of the opportunities in music come when you are very young—make the most of those years you’ve got to practice and improve! Read Previous Travel with our music students in the footsteps of the Masters. Read Next PLU’s Wind Ensemble upcoming CBDNA performance 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

doing what I’m doing."- Ken Morrison '79 Before entering the world of broadcast television, one of Morrison’s main interests was music. His father and grandparents were musicians who fueled his love of jazz. While attending PLU, that love for jazz led to his work with KPLU — the NPR station now known as KNKX — as an announcer. Morrison worked at KPLU while attending classes and was promoted to the station’s music director. This experience was highly beneficial for Morrison, who described the job as

meeting with Joey Cohn, the assistant general manager of the National Public Radio affiliate 88.5 KPLU-FM. Soon thereafter, he was interning at the studio. Hushagen started producing the on-air “comedy drops” – the little breaks between songs – and helping with the in-studio sessions when jazz performers would come to the studio. Aaron Hushagen ’11 says his internship at 88.5 KPLU was an experience he didn’t expect to have. But when he started doing it, he thought, “this is exactly what I want to do

larger audience in our country and the world.” Read Previous Alice Giles ‘cool’ World Harp Tour stops in Tacoma Read Next Student Composition Wins Statewide Competition 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

the absence of a guaranteed production. When PLU Opera Program director James Brown agreed to produce the work, Youtz finished his setting in the summer of 2015. The premiere is produced in a partnership between Pacific Lutheran University and the Confucius Institute of Washington State which has generously provided funding. Read Previous Regency String Quartet Commemorates Hungarian Revolution Read Next Sølvvinden Flute Ensemble to perform at Mary Bridge LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz

, PLU team up for free concert in honor of Music in our Schools Month 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 Horn & Fixed Media Premiere at Octave 9 in Seattle October 5, 2022