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  • The ‘L’ is not silent Posted by: Thomas Krise / March 21, 2016 March 21, 2016 Recently, I received a letter from a concerned parent and alumna commenting on how completely amazed and surprised she is at how different PLU is now, compared to her time here in the early 1980s.  She has since returned to campus many times, but more in the past four years as her two daughters have both attended PLU, one graduating last year.  Her concern stems from the fact that as she walked around campus, went on

  • Resolute Online: Spring 2015 Home Features Germany J-Term Women’s Center at 25 Jehane Noujaim It’s On Us Attaway Lutes Editor’s Note On Campus Discovery Research Accolades Lute Library Blogs Alumni News Alumni Profiles Homecoming 2015 Twin Cities ‘Waste Not’ Seattle Connections Easter Egg Hunt Night at the Rainiers Alumni Events Class Notes Family and Friends Submit a Class Note Calendar Home Features Germany J-Term Women’s Center at 25 Jehane Noujaim It’s On Us Attaway Lutes Editor’s Note On

  • Resolute Online: Spring 2015 Home Features Germany J-Term Women’s Center at 25 Jehane Noujaim It’s On Us Attaway Lutes Editor’s Note On Campus Discovery Research Accolades Lute Library Blogs Alumni News Alumni Profiles Homecoming 2015 Twin Cities ‘Waste Not’ Seattle Connections Easter Egg Hunt Night at the Rainiers Alumni Events Class Notes Family and Friends Submit a Class Note Calendar Home Features Germany J-Term Women’s Center at 25 Jehane Noujaim It’s On Us Attaway Lutes Editor’s Note On

  • to Northern Europe, right after Commencement in May. In Estonia, Nance learned about Estonian repertoire through Associate Professor of Music Timothy Fitzpatrick from Western Washington University, who was living in Tallinn during his sabbatical. “I attended some concerts, visited with conductors and composers, watched them rehearse and perform, and was just absorbed in the cultures,” Nance said. “It was fantastic!” Dr. Richard Nance, left, conducts a Choir of the West rehearsal on Nov. 3, 2014

  • academic and career trajectory. Due to the worldwide pandemic, 46 students returned home early in spring of 2020 and PLU study away was put on hold for 2020-2021. The Annual Wang Center Photo Contest is an opportunity for #LutesAway students to reflect upon their study away experience and provides a way for students to share the world’s images, from their perspective, with the PLU community. The print photos are displayed in PLU’s Mortvedt Library lobby and the digital photos are displayed below as a

  • meaning of lives that, to perpetrators and many observers, appeared meaningless. Logic is meant to coerce. Logical images of the universe preclude any possible critique of their contents, at least when done right. Max Horkheimer, himself a Jewish academic who fled the Nazi Germany, writing soon after the Second World War and the genocide of Jewish Europeans pointed out as much: “the philosophical systems of objective reason [of the modern world] implied the conviction of an all-embracing or

  • meaning of lives that, to perpetrators and many observers, appeared meaningless. Logic is meant to coerce. Logical images of the universe preclude any possible critique of their contents, at least when done right. Max Horkheimer, himself a Jewish academic who fled the Nazi Germany, writing soon after the Second World War and the genocide of Jewish Europeans pointed out as much: “the philosophical systems of objective reason [of the modern world] implied the conviction of an all-embracing or

  • audiences worldwide. On stage, Herring and his band often make an incendiary sound over fine and controlled rhythms of modern times. He has appeared on stage and or recordings with Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Hayes, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver Quintet, Jack DeJohnette’s Special Edition, Larry Coryell, Steve Turre, The Mingus Big Band (Won a Grammy in 2010), Kenny Barron, Nancy Wilson, Dr. Billy Taylor, Carla Bley, Mike LeDonne, Carl Allen, Ron McClure, and John Hicks

  • multiple trips to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art (free admission for CUNY students!), visited the Statue of Liberty with her parents, and savored a slice of Joe’s Pizza in Washington Square Park. Taking notes in the New York Public Library Walking the Brooklyn Bridge with fellow PLU grad, Sarah Ameny ‘17 Fun as it is to be in New York, studying and making new academic connections are major (and rewarding) parts of the graduate school experience. Carli earned minors in

  • 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