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  • PLU opens their 2016-2017 season with arguably the greatest composer in history: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In Amadeus , the scene is the 18 th Century and Antonio Salieri is an established composer. Salieri has given himself to God so he might realize his sole ambition…

    is forgotten. Then along comes Mozart, a musical genius. Some would say a savant.” TicketsOctober 13 (Student Preview), October 14, 15, 21, 22 at 7:30pm and October 23 at 2pmBuySalieri is a devout Catholic and has prayed to God to become a famous composer. While he becomes well-known, when he hears the music of Mozart he understands that God is working through Mozart and not himself. To add insult to injury, he is the only person alive who understands Mozart’s music is far beyond what any

  • The 19th Annual KPLU Christmas Jazz Jam, 88.5 KPLU’s much-anticipated FREE holiday concert, features tenor saxophonist Anton Schwartz –Thursday, December 10, 2015 from noon to 1 p.m. at a new venue on the Pacific Lutheran University campus: Eastvold Auditorium in the Karen Hille Phillips Center…

    . Festive concessions will be available. Parking for the event is limited as classes are in session.Anton SchwartzTenor SaxophonistParking Download a printable campus parking pass.Parking Pass Read Previous ‘A Christmas Invitation’ broadcast Read Next PLU Chorale tours the southeast, uses music to make the world a better place 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

  • So now what? After going to the Big Apple and making it big – as in a key part on a Broadway, Tony-winning, Pulitzer Prize winning play big – what’s next? Louis Hobson ’00 gets asked that question a lot these days. And his answer…

    to bits of advice as workshops he held in January at Pacific Lutheran University. His main points: Follow your passion and take risks. On the first point of following his passion, Hobson told the class that during his sophomore year at PLU, his father nearly died of an aneurysm, and Hobson, who was an music education major, decided that he was done with playing it safe. His real passion was the theater. So he switched and hasn’t looked back since. “Life is too short to do something you don’t love

  • Alumni Kevin Anderson ’80, Holly Foster ’96, Andrea Sander ’05, and Stephen Alexander shares their thoughts on vocation during the Meant to Live conference’s alumni panel. (Photo by John Froschauer) ‘Follow your bliss’ By Chris Albert The resounding advice from a panel of social sciences…

    panel was asked if a PLU and a liberal arts education was worth the financial investment.  Without hesitation each said “yes.” “I couldn’t do what I do without it,” Anderson said. Read Previous Gordon Campbell ’75 tells Lutes to follow their passion. Read Next Do you like cookies? Cocoa? Coffee? Music? Do you like Christmas and cool Christmas videos? 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

  • A mock-up of one of the panels in the exhibit Us Local People: Sámi Vuoiŋŋa and Resilience . (Courtesy of the Scandinavian Cultural Center.) Scandinavian Cultural Center Exhibit Kicks Off Months-Long Human-Rights Inquiry at PLU By Sandy Deneau Dunham, Content Editor Pacific Lutheran University’s renowned…

    (Legacies of the Shoah: Understanding Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity) Feb. 20-21; the seventh annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, March 12-14; and the annual Bjug Harstad Memorial Lecture, by Professor Henning Howlid Wærp of the University of Tromsø, the SCC exhibit—along with a separate campus exhibit on the Danish rescue of Jews during World War II—essentially serves as the kickoff of a two-month-long campuswide examination of struggles for human rights and

  • ELCA’s First Female Bishop to Speak at PLU The Rev. Elizabeth Eaton will speak at PLU on Nov. 1. (Photo courtesy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 21, 2014)—The Southwestern Washington Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and…

    Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., and a Bachelor of Arts degree in music education from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. Ordained June 4, 1981, Eaton served as assistant pastor of All Saints Lutheran Church in Worthington, Ohio; interim pastor of Good Hope Lutheran Church in Boardman, Ohio; and pastor of Messiah Lutheran Church in Ashtabula, Ohio. She was elected bishop of the ELCA Northeastern Ohio Synod in 2006 and re-elected in May 2013. Eaton’s

  • So now what? After going to the Big Apple and making it big – as in a key part on a Broadway, Tony-winning, Pulitzer Prize winning play big – what’s next? Louis Hobson ’00 gets asked that question a lot these days. And his answer…

    to bits of advice as workshops he held in January at Pacific Lutheran University. His main points: Follow your passion and take risks. On the first point of following his passion, Hobson told the class that during his sophomore year at PLU, his father nearly died of an aneurysm, and Hobson, who was an music education major, decided that he was done with playing it safe. His real passion was the theater. So he switched and hasn’t looked back since. “Life is too short to do something you don’t love

  • TOP 10 REASONS why PLU can be a great fit for you Montserrat Walker ’14 Loves the focus PLU places on global issues, and how her classes investigate issues from multiple perspectives Every student has different reasons why they have found PLU to be a…

    expert. And did we mention that a few years ago, “Outside” magazine ranked Tacoma as the fifth best outdoor city in the country? When life is this good, we’ll take a little rain. #9 Study away – and still graduate on time We want to make it easy for you to be able to study away – and the Wang Center for Global Education is dedicated to making that happen. They work full-time to ensure that academic credit from experiences abroad transfer to PLU, as well as making sure scholarships count toward study

  • The Choir of the West placed 6th in a global ranking of Mixed Collegiate Choirs and overall 25th in Choirs, according to the international organization, Interkultur . “This is a recognition where Choir of the West represents the university and our country well on the world stage,”…

    of choirs in these competitions each year, and clearly, we were considered among the best in 2015.” The Interkultur rankings are compiled yearly after the results of their many festivals are known. This comes after the Choir of the West won a first place and a gold certificate in the Mixed Choirs and Sacred Music categories in the Anton Bruckner Competition. “The ranking is certainly an attraction for prospective students to be able to sing in an ensemble of this caliber and participate in these

  • 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…

    perform works from Clifton Williams, Franz Biebl, Leonard Bernstein, Frank Ticheli, and Percy Grainger. “The program was picked for a variety of audiences,” explains Ron Gerhardstein who is Associate Director of Bands at PLU.  “Most important are the high school students at our different stops along the route. I chose music that would appeal to them, including selections they might have played before (Clifton Williams – Caccia and Chorale, Frank Ticheli’s Amazing Grace, and Percy Grainger’s Shepherd’s