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Something I thought I’d never do: Sing for 12 million people! By Kari Plog ’11 John Marzano never thought he would be on live television singing in front of millions of people – but that’s exactly what he did alongside nine other close friends over…
down in LA jumping right into rehearsals,” Marzano said. “We were really excited and nervous about it.” Immediately after hearing they were one of the finalists, PLUtonic members had to make arrangements to travel to Hollywood. “It was really nerve-racking to think that in two weeks we would be in Hollywood with cameras in our faces with America judging us,” Marzano said. Senior Phillip Serino, another PLUtonic member studying music composition, said it wasn’t the stage that gave him the jitters
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Pacific Lutheran University is pleased to announce the winners of The Carol Sheffels Quigg Award for Excellence and Innovation, established by alumna and regent Carol Quigg, whose endowment funds the awards. The Quigg Awards provide support for faculty, staff, and students who have demonstrated unusually…
to serve on a special panel. Funds would also go toward an in-person breakfast and trophies. Learn more: DataFest Read Previous Music professor Gina Gillie discussed her new composition and short film Read Next PLU’s culturally sustaining STEM program helped prepare Becca Anderson to be a dynamic teacher COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25
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PLU News documents good work Lutes are doing, on and off campus, as they live and pursue lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care.
Dr. Gregory Youtz: A Front-Row Seat (Almost Literally!) to the Chinese President’s Tacoma Visit Where can a liberal arts degree in Music Composition lead you? In my case it has led to a life of travel, study, program development, tour-guiding, international relations and eventually a handshake with the President of China. Here’s the tale. TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 29, 2015)—The… September 29, 2015 Equity, Faith, JusticeResearch & AcademicsStudent Life, Resources, Community
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News for Pacific Lutheran University.
Choir of the West 2019 Tour – United Kingdom and Germany Visits to some of United Kingdom’s most beautiful cities, concert exchanges with important chamber choirs around the world, and participation in a renowned choral competition are all features of the Choir of the West 2019 tour. The itinerary will include stops in Edinburgh, York, Cambridge,… April 30, 2019
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With a population of about 300,000, the Bwa live in both Mali and Burkina Faso. The Bwa are governed by a council of elders.
represent the power of a chief. This mask in the PLU Collection could represent a species of bird that inhabits the bush or it could represent a chicken which is often a common sacrificial animal used in many rituals. This mask is most likely a Nunuma style mask used by the southern Bwa, the Nyaynegay (“scarred Bwa”). These masks tend to have more elaborate composition, such as the individual birds and their wooden rings in the PLU mask, than masks made in the Bwa tradition, which are made from a single
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The Fall 2020 semester had its challenges for PLU students and faculty alike. However, one of the bright spots to lift our spirits has been learning virtually from guest artists who graciously shared their wisdom and knowledge with Theatre and Dance students over the course…
talked a lot about the technical aspects of camera work relating to dance films and dancing for the camera. I used the information I gained from the master class and applied it to my classwork, especially the dance film final project for Composition and Choreography. It helped me think about how to both choreograph and dance for a camera and how this is different than dancing on a stage. —Brooke Nelson ’23, Dance minor Though the circumstances of the year are not what any of us would have chosen, I
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PLU Music Professor Gregory Youtz teams up with prominent Chinese poet Zhang Er, Professor at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, to create this new work around the life of an extraordinary woman poet of ancient China, Cai Yan. In this new opera, Fiery Jade:…
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
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Free Summer Jazz Series Brings Stars—and the Community—to PLU A crowd enjoys the music at a 2013 Jazz Under the Stars concert at PLU. (Photo: PLU student John Struzenberg ’15) 16th Annual Jazz Under the Stars Kicks Off July 10 By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU…
and is a frequent soloist with symphonies throughout the United States. Moby featured Gardner prominently on his 2009 release, Wait For Me. July 31 The Rob Hutchinson Group Hutchinson teaches music theory, orchestration, analysis, counterpoint, improvisation and composition at the University of Puget Sound. He is also a jazz bassist and organizes and appears at the Jazz in the Rotunda series at the UPS. His band, the Rob Hutchinson Group, includes Kareem Kandi on saxophone, David Deacon-Joyner on
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Rae Linda Brown, Ph.D., succeeds Steven P. Starkovich, Ph.D., as PLU’s chief academic officer TACOMA, WASH. (May 9, 2016) – Rae Linda Brown, Ph.D., will join Pacific Lutheran University as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs on Aug. 1, 2016. Brown comes to…
programs reporting to the provost’s office, including Asian American Studies, African American Studies, Women’s Studies, Latin American Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies, History of Philosophy, Transportation Science, and Global Peace and Conflict Studies. She is a noted scholar of Florence Beatrice Price, the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra. × "We are delighted to welcome Rae Linda to PLU, and we look
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Senior Physics capstone presentations will take place Monday, May 6th starting at 2pm in Rieke 103B.
. Assorting through various formulae in Python assisted in determining model parameters, their uncertainty, and their reduced χ2 for several variable stars. The reduced χ2 values were quantitative determinants of which models proved significantly the best-fits for the light curves. 2:30pm Jessica Ordaz – “Stars Across the Ages: Investigating Stellar Evolution, Population Dynamics, and Metal Content.” How exactly do astronomers determine the ages and composition of stars? Because of the nature of space
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