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Information for the 2024 Summer Opera Workshop is still being updated. Check back soon for more details! Summer Opera Workshop July 7-21, 2024Mary Baker Russell Music Center | James Brown, DirectorOur Summer Opera Workshop will present Mozart’s Don Giovanni (in Italian with piano) on Friday, July 19 at 7 pm and Sunday, July 21 at 2:30 pm and an evening of song on Saturday, July 20 at 5 pm. This workshop allows participants to engage in movement, acting and vocal study with faculty members
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other technical infrastructure is state of the art. It is worth noting that the performing arts center will not host just theater. Dance, opera and jazz performances will also use Eastvold Auditorium. Lectures, touring ensembles and other PLU-sponsored events will also take place there. It will be a very busy place. Phase II also includes many changes not related to theater. PLU’s cherished Tower Chapel is restored, renamed the Ness Family Chapel, thanks to a $2 million gift from Kaare and Sigrunn
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. Contributors included Jon ’63 and Mari Kvinsland, Naomi (Roe ’53) and Don ’50 Nothstein, and Gene ’62 and Carla ’64 LeMay. Martin J. Neeb Center A new home for the university’s award-winning jazz and NPR news radio station, KPLU, was funded by the campaign. It was named for Martin J. Neeb who served as general manager of the station from 1981 to 2007. Martin’s brother, Larry Neeb, a PLU regent, was the largest single benefactor of the building. Athletics, Wellness and Recreation Capital Projects Several
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,” Krause said of the early days. “I feel like we paid our dues. We worked very hard.” Music is Krause’s passion; it’s what brought him to PLU, where he earned a communication degree. He writes songs, sings and plays guitar for Fort Union, which just released a new album (fupdx.com). He also can play piano and played saxophone in the PLU Jazz Band as a student. Krause makes a different kind of music at Fried Egg I’m In Love when he’s donning an apron and juggling spatulas. The sounds of silverware
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March 8 | 7:30 p.m. | Anderson University Center (Scandinavian Cultural Center) This year’s distinguished speaker is Dr. Jim Anderson, Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at Harvard University. His lecture is titled “The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change.” Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts March 15 | 8 p.m. | Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Members of PLU’s choral and jazz ensembles will perform selections from Duke Ellington’s “Sacred Concerts.” Religion
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: Researching Educational and Community Development in the Esmeraldas Province Sarah Sandgren, Domestic and International Policy in Ecuador: Following the Government in the First Year, Post-Election Melissa Severson-Hampton, Proponents of Change: Norway’s Shifting Perspectives on Language Faculty Projects Amy Beegle, Afro-Peruvian Jazz Performance and Transmission in Peru Peter Davis, A Field-Based Geologic Investigation of Panama’s Dulling Subduction Zones Steven Thomson, “Children of the Village”: On
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School in Northeast Tacoma, where he teaches 260 students at the elementary and middle school levels, along with a before school jazz band. He was recently named a semifinalist for the 2015 Grammy Music Education Award, which recognizes someone who has made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of music education and who demonstrates a commitment to the broader cause of maintaining music education in the schools. Learn more // Go Back How has your major at PLU helped you choose and
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Thomas Horn '17 By Kiana Norman-Slack ’17 Thomas Horn, a sociology major from Enumclaw, has deep roots planted in Pacific Lutheran University’s community. His brother graduated two years ago. His mother works in Career Connections. Now, he’s a couple weeks away from joining the alumni community. “I thought it would be fitting,” Horn said of attending PLU. Horn spent the bulk of his time at the university performing with the Jazz Ensemble. Under the direction of Professor David Deacon-Joyner, he was
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been academically challenged and enriched in subjects from gender studies, environmental justice and jazz. I’ve learned to take risks and always found a community to fall back on. Because so much time is devoted to looking at issues and topics from a perspective other than my own, I have been challenged to discover my own capacity for compassion. What’s next? I’m hoping to get hired to teach music somewhere in the Northwest. Elementary, secondary, band, orchestra, choir – I just want to teach music
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liked the music, and I’m especially into Jazz, so it was great fun.” Michael: “Great—I’ve seen that film, too. This is the film that begins on a crowded L.A. freeway, and suddenly—POW!—the people are all singing and dancing on the overpass in the bright Southern California sun.” Marc: “Apparently, filming that took about three days and the freeway was closed most of the time. They really shut down L.A. for it!” Matt: “Strangely, I haven’t seen La La Land yet. But we did have a fun student film night
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