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Tegels, organ, and PLU’s Choir of the West directed by Richard Nance. The idea of perspective is explored through two compositional views of the Prodigal’s humility in his return: Debussy with piano, and Arthur Sullivan’s oratorio, performed with organ and Choir of the West. The two versions give the same perspective from different compositional voices. Jim Brown, director, explains the differences. “Sullivan (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame) is a real Victorian era compositional voice. There are moments

University’s U.S. premiere of the Nordic Light Symphony by composer Ēriks Ešenvalds. The March 4 premiere in Eastvold Auditorium will be a treat for your eyes and ears; the multi-media event features the Choral Union, Choir of the West, and the University Symphony Orchestra.   Latvian composer Ešenvalds traveled to the arctic regions with a videographer to film the Aurora. Along the way he met with 23 native storytellers and recorded more than 40 different myths and songs about the Northern Lights. This

Musical Memories Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / March 21, 2014 Image: Choir of the West members prepare to board the bus at Pacific Lutheran College in 1939 for a 3,000-mile tour. (Photo courtesy of Lorna Vosburg Burt) March 21, 2014 Editor’s Note: When Lorna Vosburg Burt ’40, ’69 read our story on PLU’s annual Christmas Concerts in the winter 2013 edition of Scene magazine, she was inspired to recall—and share—her own Choir of the West story … from 1939. It was so full of history and facts and

Hall of the Mary Baker Russell Music Center. Learn more. Read Previous University Symphony Orchestra Spring Tour 2019 Read Next Choir of the West 2019 Tour – United Kingdom and Germany 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 Announces Inaugural Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and Performance January 29, 2024 PLU’s Weathermon Jazz Festival to Feature Acclaimed

, member of Summit Brass, St. Louis Brass Quintet and is a former member of the New York Brass Quintet), Stephen Hendrickson (principal trumpet of the National Symphony) and international recording artist Allen Vizzutti. Gina Gillie, French horn, is an Associate Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University where she teaches horn and aural skills, conducts a horn choir, and performs frequently with faculty groups and in solo and chamber recitals. As an orchestral player, she is currently Assistant

raised in Douglas, Arizona on the Mexican border, the youngest of five children. I played baseball, acted in plays, and played trombone in the band. I didn’t sing in a choir until my junior year in high school and got a wonderful opportunity my senior year when I sang at a solo/ensemble contest in Tucson. My adjudicator was Eugene Conley, revered baritone and accomplished voice teacher at the University of Arizona. That chance meeting that day led to enrolling in the U of A to study with Mr. Conley

Wednesday, December 2, at 7:30pm and Seattle on Monday, December 7, at 7:30pm. This year’s concert theme, “A Christmas Invitation,” features the exclusive world premiere of prolific Hollywood film composer J.A.C. Redford’s A Christmas Invitation, a three-movement work composed specifically for the Choir of the West, University Chorale and University Symphony Orchestra. The choirs and orchestra also will premiere “December: A Meditation on Advent,” composed by PLU Professor of Music Greg Youtz.  The