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  • Fairy high jinks, true love and bewitching spells will play out on stage at the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts January 23-26 when PLU’s Opera series presents Benjamin Britten’s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Originally premiered in 1960 at the Aldeburgh Festival, Britten’s evocative…

    and moments of baroque and florid music. Britten pays attention to the Shakespearean play’s central theme: the madness of love. The plot follows that of the play, though Britten cut much of Act I and re-ordered scenes. Music tends to lengthen the duration of text, but anyone who knows the play will recognize the story. Jim Brown, vocal chair and director of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is updating the opera to modern day Central Park in New York City- for a sort of “Shakespeare in the Park

  • Travel to Alcina’s island for a story of magic, enchantment and song. This January, surround yourself with magnificent music when Pacific Lutheran University Opera performs Handel’s Alcina on the Karen Hille Phillips Mainstage. There are four opportunities to view the production:  January 22, 23, and…

    from our string faculty- forming a duet with the singer. It must be heard to be believed! Handel really outdid himself in this music.” Brown programs the annual production with a three-year cycle of repertoire to expose students to baroque, standard repertoire, and modern opera during their four years of study. Brown notes that Handel is a particularly healthy repertoire for young singers. The music alternates between lyrical and melismatic without straining the range of a younger singer. “There

  • Visiting Instructor of Music, Strings, and Composition | Music | korine.fujiwara@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Montana native Korine Fujiwara is a founding member of the Carpe Diem String Quartet, a devoted and sought-after chamber musician and teacher, and a gifted composer and arranger. Ms.

    , Cincinnati College Conservatory, and Northwestern University to continue their musical studies. Named as one of Strings Magazine’s “25 Contemporary Composers to Watch,” Korine has received multiple commissions including works for opera, chamber ensembles, chorus, concerti, and music for modern dance. Her works have been performed throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Australia, China, and Japan. Her musical language encompasses a wide range of

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  • Paul Martinez and Ramon Coronado in a shaft of dusty light while reinstalling the rose window. (Photo by John Froschauer) The Light Fantastic: A journey into the spectrum of life at Pacific Lutheran By Dennis Sepper, University Pastor Ten o’clock in the morning is the…

    remodeling the Chapel comes up, the student chorus is always the same: “Please don’t change the feel of the Chapel!” One would think with its bare concrete floors and creaky benches that the students would want new and modern furnishings. But it is the medieval ambiance of the chapel that seems to lend the space a spiritual quality. And well it should. The Chapel and the Rose Window have seen the course of human life as the generations of Lutes have come and moved on to other vocations in the world. The

  • In 2010, Thorleif Thorleifsson and BØrge Ousland spent 80 days sailing around the Arctic Ocean. (Photos courtesy/Norwegian Embassy) Exploring the Arctic In 2010, Norwegian explorer Thorleif Thorleifsson and BØrge Ousland, became the first to sail around the Arctic in one, short season. Thorleifsson and Marit…

    global strategic environment. The lecture is at 2 p.m. Friday, March 2 in the Scandinavian Cultural Center in the UC. The lecture is entitled, “A Voyage Around the North Pole: Modern Exploration and Climate Change.” Changes to the environment and climate of the Arctic are offering new opportunities for competition and collaboration among states in its periphery. Dynamism will only increase in the coming decades, as water levels rise, gas and oil reserves are explored, and territorial claims are

  • Explorer Thorleif Thorleifsson highlights his 80 day journey around the Arctic Ocean. (Photo by John Froschauer) Arctic exploration and climate change By Katie Scaff ’13 Changes in the Arctic have become increasingly visible, according to Norwegian explorer Thorleif Thorleifsson, who, with BØrge Ousland, became the…

    is my goal. Be curious. Find out for yourself.” In his lecture presentation entitled, “A Voyage Around the North Pole: Modern Exploration and Climate Change,” Thorleifsson recalled his 80 day journey around the Arctic with photos and video clips. Thorleifsson and Ousland’s voyage took them though the Northern Sea route in Russia, the Northwest Passage in Canada and across the North Atlantic back to Norway. It was a race against time and in waters with drifting ice, increasing darkness and autumn

  • By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (Jan. 29, 2015)—Molly Loberg ’98 has been awarded the History Article Prize by The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, the oldest and largest association for female historians in the country, for her publication “The Streetscape…

    University in San Luis Obispo, Calif., went to Germany as one of Pacific Lutheran University’s 100 Fulbright Scholars and then earned her Ph.D. in History from Princeton University. “PLU is the place where I first learned how think as a historian,” she said. “And more broadly, my professors there taught me how to become not only a better scholar but also a more thoughtful and engaged human being.” Loberg, whose area of expertise is modern European history, centered her article on the perspectives and

  • If the raised fist on the bottle is any indication, Reformaiden beer makes a statement. The German, alt-style beer — boasting a cloudy caramel color and a subtle malt flavor — immortalizes Katharina von Bora, the woman who stood beside and, in many ways, propped…

    the Düsseldorf region of Germany. He networked with other brewers and conducted online research to guarantee the recipe was right and, more importantly, authentic. They even altered the water to create a similar mineral content to that of the beer von Bora would have brewed. The result of the combination of the perfect water, malt and yeast? A craft beer that offers a nod to its German roots while offering a modern flavor that’s hard to resist. “Crisp and malty is what we’re aiming for,” Thoburn

  • Pacific Lutheran University’s Center for Graduate and Continuing Education will host the spring virtual convening of The People’s Gathering: A Revolution of Consciousness conference on March 30. The People’s Gathering conference is a day-long Zoom-based professional and personal development experience offering a supportive space to…

    , and even controversial.  Sutton will advise participants on staying centered despite the tumult of the modern world in her presentation, “The Way Forward: Six Practices to an Intercultural Growth Mindset.” In the afternoon, participants will participate in small group race dialogues and the final session of the day will feature report outs from each group and discussion with Dr. Karen Johnson, office of equity director in the Washington State Governor’s Office. The People’s Gathering recently won

  • Within a program that is firmly based in the liberal arts, the social work major is designed to prepare students for beginning professional social work practice as well as graduate study in social

    Bachelor of Social Work (BSW)Within a program that is firmly based in the liberal arts, the social work major is designed to prepare students for beginning professional social work practice as well as graduate study in social work. Social work has both a heavily multidisciplinary-based body of knowledge and its own continuously developing knowledge base. The complexity of social issues and social problems that confront the modern-day social worker require this broad theoretical perspective