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relationships with people, reading the Bible, just living life,” Serino laughed when asked about his inspiration for the piece. “I guess you could say I was researching the holy spirit.”  Serino, a music and composition major, first started composing when he was in high school in Gresham, Ore. Serino describes his as a rather dramatic piece, with lulls and crescendos. Celeste Godin will be singing a series of  songs from Joseph Conteloube’s Chantes d’Auvergne. She will be singing the songs in Occitan, the

directed 83 productions, 60 of which have been at PLU. Auditions were held March 29 and 30, and rehearsals began the following weekend. Preparations for the entirely student-run production are in full-swing, and rehearsals are every Sunday-Thursday 6:30-10:30 p.m. The cast is 24 members strong and there are roughly 18 musical numbers performed and choreographed by students. “The music is really fun,” Clapp said. “There’s some really wonderful, poignant numbers.” Clapp said the music is modern and

://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThB2kRSmK78 Okuda was with the Choir of the West under long-time director Maurice Skones between 1977 and 1978. Skones was the Choir of the West director at PLU from 1963 to 1984. In all, he taught 54 years at the university, according to his son, Paul Skones ’74, who is also a music teacher in the Portland area. Even though Skones directed a choir, that doesn’t mean you could hide among the voices, Okuda said. If you were off key or missing a word, “he knew immediately who did it

to students directly after their currently scheduled degree completion date. Graduate students will be offered opportunities for tuition-free continuing education courses.The university is planning on offering in-person, online, and blended courses and on-campus housing this fall. As part of extensive safety precautions being taken by the university, hundreds of events and programs including some athletic competitions, music and theatre productions, intramural sports, academic conferences, and

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soprano and PLU alumna Angela Meade ’01 founded the competition in 2018 to provide students with opportunities for growth in the competitive world of opera. “The Angela Meade competition provides valuable professional development in the form of cash for travel and supplemental coaching, and access to Angela’s extensive professional network,” said James Brown, professor of music at PLU.Meade and her husband, John Myers, also an opera singer, selected this year’s seven finalists—Caitlyn Babcock, Caitlyn

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record 975 artists applied for the awards. Both Senn, virtual reference services librarian, and Youtz, professor of music, received the maximum award of $1,500. A visual artist, Senn uses discarded library books to make sculptures and installations that explore the lifecycle of ideas. It’s an organic, non-linear process, she explains, where thoughts are born, disseminated, and then adopted or forgotten. She finds inspiration in the natural world, from the variety of books she finds and in her work as

carved tree. It swings open without a sound. Once inside, the smell of freshly sanded pine and the notes of organ music wash over you. Welcome to Paul Fritts & Company Organ Builders, the creators of the Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Organ that has resided for the last 10 years in the Mary Baker Russell Music Center. Fritts, who continued to build the company after he took it over from his father, said that his shop focuses generally on building the big organs for major colleges, institutions and churches