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PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition Cassio Vianna, Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies, has been awarded a grant to write a 4-movement suite entitled Invisible Garden, that blends jazz, chamber music and Brazilian music. Posted by: Liza Conboy / April 18, 2024 Image: Jazz Under the Stars featuring Vianna/Bergeron Brazilian Quintet with Cassio Vianna on piano at PLU, Thursday
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Explore Your WorldPLU’s Chinese Studies Program is an interdisciplinary program which is designed to provide students interested in China a broad foundation in Chinese language, culture, and history, and an opportunity to focus on the religious-philosophical world view and the economic structure of China.Special Program Offerings Campus Activities Back on campus, the Chinese Studies program sponsors campus-wide activities-from Chinese music recitals and lectures to small group discussions with
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In the Footsteps of Giants: J-term Study Away in Europe Posted by: Reesa Nelson / December 4, 2019 December 4, 2019 Vienna, Salzburg, Leipzig, Berlin and Prague are cities rich with musical history and tradition. Vienna is often called the “Capital of Classical Music.” This one small area was the central location for many of the finest musicians of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Experiencing music in the spaces where many of these great works were first heard contextualizes the art
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styles and musical eras, and to explore the relationship between music and the time, place, and ideological context in which it was produced. Students in this section of “The Arts in Society” will work from an historically based survey text in music (with ancillary recordings), as well as readings in aesthetic philosophy exploring the relationship between the arts, history, and society.IHON 260: Why Art MattersThis course explores why humans make, value, and leverage visual art. We’ll examine how art
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innovative music, while sticking to their motto — Keep it Sassy, Brassy and Classy. They would like to thank their brother group PLUtonic, for all of their support and encouragement.EmailAdvisor: Brian Galante PLUtonicPLUtonic is student-run and directed men’s a’ cappella singing groups that perform entirely without instruments. In July 2010, PLUtonic made it onto the entertainment reality show “America’s Got Talent” as one of the 12 finalists in the show’s national YouTube contest.Advisor: Brian Galante
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Literature - IT, GE FREN 204 Postcolonial Francophone Fictions and Criticism - IT, GE FREN 205 French/Francophone Film - IT, GE FREN 206 French/Francophone Feminisms - IT, GE FREN 210 French History, Culture, Society - VW, GE FREN 211 Francophone Africa in Global Context - VW, GE FREN 301 Advanced French - VW, GE FREN 305 French/Francophone Film - IT, GE FREN 310 French History, Culture, Society - VW, GE FREN 311 Francophone Africa in Global Context - VW, GE FREN 403 Topics in French Literature - IT, GE
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act of resistance to oppression, and the balance between celebrating the heroic struggles of the past with the challenges of emerging as a post-colonial society that can compete with and indeed offer solutions to an increasingly connected, tumultuous and fragile world. Dr. Greg Youtz has been taking students to Trinidad and Tobago since 1999 and directed the PLU Gateway Program in T&T from 2015 to 2022. On campus his courses focused on music composition, music history, ethnomusicology and the
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Brandon Bruan Head of International Recruitment Phone: 253-535-8724 Email: bruanbj@plu.edu Office Location:Hauge Administration Building Professional Biography Education M.S., Higher Education Administration & Enrollment Management, Bay Path University History and Humanities, Seattle University Responsibilities International First-year and Transfer Students. Biography Brandon is a born and raised Seattle native. He finds that the beauty and diversity of the Pacific Northwest is unparalleled
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of the students who will take part in this premiere were even born yet when these things became part of PLU history. It’s important for them to know this past, too.” Asked how it happened that Fanfare, Fantasia and Finale was written so long before the anniversaries it was meant to celebrate, Kracht said, “I had been thinking about these two significant creations—Dr. Meyer’s march and the Mary Baker Russell Music Center—and realized their fiftieth and twenty-fifth anniversaries, respectively
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New Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna Posted by: Kate Williams / March 14, 2019 March 14, 2019 By Mackenzie Cooper '19PLU’s music faculty welcomes their newest hire, Cassio Vianna. The native of Brazil brings with him an extensive resume of teaching, composing, and performing jazz music. This year, he’ll begin a new journey channeling his passion into educating and inspiring PLU students as director of the University Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combos, as well as teaching History of Jazz
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