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The Pacific Lutheran University Wind Ensemble is traveling across the mountains to eastern Washington to perform in various venues this March. The 50-student ensemble will perform in Yakima, Spokane, Richland, Pasco and Portland, Oregon, and will finish with a homecoming concert in Lagerquist Concert Hall…
Concert Hall Read Previous PLU to present US premiere of St. Matthew Passion as part of larger “Passion Week” event Read Next Pacific Lutheran University Choirs and Orchestra close “Passion Week” with North American premiere 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
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On Friday, May 11th, the public is invited to a collaborative concert featuring the Stadium High School Jazz Band, the Pacific Lutheran University Jazz Ensemble and special guest and world renowned saxophonist, Vincent Herring. Thanks to a generous endowment established by PLU alumnus Dr. Richard…
Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are available online at Eventbrite. $10 – General admission; $5 – 60+, military, PLU alumni and students; free – high school students and younger. Read Previous A Slice of Paradise Read Next PLU hosts Tamana Girls’ High School Band in friendship concert 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
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Civil War love letter inspires wind ensemble As the story goes, Maj. Sullivan Ballou was like most men in the Northern army at the start of the Civil War. He fought not to end slavery, but to preserve the Union. At 32, Ballou had a…
the musicians to listen with a different ear and be submissive to the soloist, Powell said. Powell said the piece really came together when John Koch, the soloist, arrived a few days before the performance. The composition was written specifically for Koch, who has performed numerous operatic and oratorio roles around the world. Powell was also interested in the piece because of the power and drama of the subject matter. Before the ensemble began rehearsing it, Powell and his students spent time
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Art grants support PLU faculty PLU faculty members Holly Senn and Greg Youtz were among 80 Washington state artists to receive awards from the Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) program, funded by Artist Trust .The GAP program provides support for artist-generated projects, and is open…
, Youtz used his award to defray the costs of creating a professional recording of his composition “Fragments: Three Songs of Hope.” The three-song set, originally composed in 2003 from fragments of poems, is now part of a nine-movement oratorio, “Drum Taps: Nine Poems on Themes of War.” He’ll use the recording to market “Drum Taps,” which has yet to premiere. The professional recording happened earlier this summer in Lagerquist Concert Hall. Youtz hired three professional musicians, vocalist Janeanne
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The annual dance concert, Dance 2015 , once again leaps onto the stage of Eastvold Auditorium on Friday, April 10 and Saturday, April 11 at 7:30pm. This year’s concert will be Associate Professor and Dance 2015 Director Maureen McGill’s last show after 35 years. Dance 2015…
minor to focus more on technique. Courses, such as Dance and Culture, will be added along with Ballet, Modern and Hip-Hop Technique, Dance Production, Intro to Dance, Dance Composition and Improvisation. Tickets for Dance 2015 are $8 General Admission, $5 Senior Citizens and Alumni, $3 PLU Community, Students and 18 and under. Tickets are available at the Concierge Desk in the Anderson University Center, 253-535-7411 [credit/debit/cash), and can be purchased at the door before the show [cash only
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Dave Robbins Steps Down after 33 Years as Chair of the Department of Music Greg Youtz’s first glimpse of Dave Robbins was him strolling down a hallway in Eastvold, while his two-year-old daughter toddled along at his side, clutching his finger. “I remember thinking that…
, because it’s in those memos that I place my creativity that I used to put into music composition.” The Department of Music will celebrated Dave Robbins’ tenure with a tribute concert on May 22 at 8pm in Lagerquist Concert Hall. In His Own Words: Finding a Special Place at PLUIn the spring and summer of 1969, I was looking for my first college teaching job as I completed my graduate music degree at the University of Michigan… Read Previous Cosmosis: combining the art of music with the inquiry of
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TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 19, 2016)- With thousands of Lutes — whether current students, alumni, family or friends — on campus for Homecoming this weekend, it was difficult to find a corner of campus unoccupied by the joy of being at Pacific Lutheran University. The PLU…
music, paired with a lot of nostalgia that spanned generations. More than 350 Choir of the West members, from the class of 1953 to the class of 2020, gathered Sunday afternoon to perform in a 90th anniversary celebration in Lagerquist Concert Hall. “You wouldn’t find that any other place besides PLU,” said Richard Nance, director of choral activities at PLU and conductor of Choir of the West since 2007. While onstage, Nance shared that the most “rewarding” part about this gathering was watching
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As the effects of the coronavirus pandemic continue to impact the world, educators are being forced to get creative as classrooms move online. Remote learning combined with the cancellation of large, in-person events, and concerns over the germ-spreading potential of singing and playing wind instruments…
that came to be. When we discussed our plans for the fall semester, the music faculty knew that we needed to focus on what we can do. Instead of asking what is impossible this year, we asked what’s impossible in a normal year. It didn’t take long to realize that the normally busy schedule of rehearsals, practicing, classes, performances, productions, etc., limited our availability to engage in collaborations with professional choral ensembles and major symphony orchestra musicians. Our artform was
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Some say dance is a universal language. At Pacific Lutheran University, that concept is growing further through the opportunities that its Dance minor program offers. This fall 2017 semester marks the 40th anniversary of the program. The Dance minor program and Dance Ensemble were created…
featuring her fourth cast of dancers. “Each of the six dancers represent different characters, qualities and emotions, and memorize those parts from a structured improvisation,” Winchester said. “It’s complex.” Simply, this piece is designed by chaos, meant to be fun, but also very specific. The dancers analyze the story into dance through the process of dramaturgy, the technique of dramatic composition and theatrical representation. This is what defines Vonnegut’s description of female shorthand typing
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By Barbara Clements Looking back, Svend Rønning ’89 can’t remember when music wasn’t part of his life. His mother was a piano teacher; his grandfather played the violin. In fact, he still occasionally uses a bow that his grandfather bought from a Sears and Roebuck…
.” Ronning feels blessed he’s been able to do both. Read Previous Finding a special place at PLU Read Next Organist off the Grid 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
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