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  • TACOMA, WASH. (Nov. 10, 2015)- Throughout the week of Nov. 8-14 Pacific Lutheran University is hosting a trio of events celebrating and resourcing veterans and military service members. On Wednesday morning, the university will host a Veterans Day Celebration. On Saturday morning, it will host…

     2nd Annual Resource Fair and Summit for Veterans, Spouses and Dependents. And, on Saturday afternoon, PLU Athletics will welcome service members and their families to the 3rd Annual PLU Military Appreciation Football Game. Wednesday’s Veterans Day Celebration will be held at 10:30 a.m. in Lagerquist Concert Hall in the Mary Baker Russell Music Center. The annual event will feature musical performances by the PLU Brass Quintet and Miya Higashiyama; a posting of the colors by the PLU Color Guard

  • By Michael Halvorson, ’85. The Benson Program in Business and Economic History is pleased to announce the selection of three student-faculty research teams for Summer 2021. The fellowships are selected by the Innovation Studies steering committee and funded through the generous support of Dale E.…

    history, innovation, and media studies via a new podcast series that will be piloted over the Summer. The “Innovation in History” project will investigate important moments of creativity in the disciplines of History and Innovation, from historical scholarship on video games, to the use of portraits in contemporary society, to exploring music as an historical source. The faculty mentor for the project is Prof. Michael Halvorson (History/Innovation Studies), who will co-host the podcast. The team will

  • TACOMA, Wash. (Aug. 21, 2015)—Mike Burton ’69 has been inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame for his 39 years of service as a national-award-winning speech and debate coach. Burton, who retired in 2008, is the first speech and debate coach from Washington…

    debate coach. Burton, who retired in 2008, is the first speech and debate coach from Washington state inducted into the hall, and only the 12th nationally recognized in the category of Fine Arts (which also includes music and drama). His accomplishments include: Leading students to three national and 36 state championships in speech and debate; the Washington State Teacher of the Year award; the National Speech and Debate League Living Legends Award; the Bruno Jacob Lifetime Award for Service to

  • SEATTLE, WASH. (April 16, 2015)- Ordinarily, it takes many years for a Theatre Major to earn the opportunity to write, compose or star in a high-profile musical production. However, one Lute is dramatically defying that expectation. Justin Huertas graduated almost six years ago, in 2009,…

    Shakespeare education in my head all the time (while writing music and lyrics),” Huertas said. “Would this character stick to a meter?” he recalled often asking himself while writing Lizard Boy. “Would he rhyme if he had this in his head?” “How does this language inform what the characters are going through? That’s something I’ve always been very fascinated by.” Huertas also used connections made at PLU to cast his show. His former classmate, Kirsten deLohr Helland ’09, is starring alongside him in Lizard

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 3, 2017)- You know it’s a good class when even the professor goes home shouting: “You’re not going to believe what we learned today!” Joanna Gregson, professor of sociology, says she told her husband just that throughout her January Term course “Policing…

    , ethics and discretion, race and policing, and use of force. “I can only speak to these areas to a certain degree,” Premo said, “so having someone who works directly in that specialty area gives the students an opportunity to ask questions to someone currently working in that area.” The roughly 20 students enrolled in the class claimed a variety of majors — including those outside sociology — such as communication, computer science, psychology and music. Mitch Perantie ’19, who intends to major in

  • Cosmosis: combining the art of music with the inquiry of science Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / May 1, 2014 May 1, 2014 In Cosmosis, the final 2013 SOAC FOCUS Series Event, musicians and scientists explore how failure can empower us to pursue knowledge and success. The three-part event will take place in Lagerquist Concert Hall in the Mary Baker Russell Music Center on Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 8 pm. The first part will feature works by Jonathan Newman, Beethoven and John Mackey. The second part

  • out, Mt Rainier loomed in the distance, the water sparkled.  I was hooked from that moment on!  (And yes, being from the Northwest, I understood that the weather would change at some point!)Talk about your work composing for movies and video games - what was your favorite project, and how has this work shaped who you are as a composer and teacher?I took a job composing music for video games right after graduate school.  I wanted to try my hand earning a living as a composer before beginning my

  • J-term adventures: Keep up with music students around the world Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / January 12, 2016 January 12, 2016 Churches, Organs, and Art in The Netherlands and GermanyUniversity Organist and Associate Professor of Music Paul Tegels takes students to visit historical buildings in the Netherlands and northern Germany.  Organ students will see and play some of the most significant historical instruments in that region, hearing the repertoire on instruments for which that repertoire

  • Travel with our music students in the footsteps of the Masters. Posted by: marshrl / January 8, 2018 January 8, 2018 Travel with our music students in the footsteps of the Masters. Read Previous Concert web streaming of PLU’s annual Christmas Concert, Gloria Read Next Backstage with Violinist Svend Rønning 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

  • Music professor Gina Gillie discussed her new composition and short film Posted by: Silong Chhun / November 21, 2022 Image: Professor of Music, French Horn Gina Gillie (PLU photo/John Froschauer) November 21, 2022 By Zach PowersMarketing & Communications Professor of Music Gina Gillie recently premiered her first electroacoustic music composition at Seattle Symphony’s Octave 9. Titled “Pale Blue Dot for solo horn and fixed media,” the piece is inspired by the 1991 photograph taken by the