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  • dancers. Repeatable for credit up to 4 times. Fulfills one course towards the FT GenEd Element. (2) DANC 240 : Dance Concert Ensemble - CX Students perform in the faculty-directed dance concert. Repeatable for credit up to 4 times. (0 to 1) DANC 251 : Beginning/Intermediate Ballet - CX, FT Students practice ballet technique, ballet choreography, and learn the history of ballet. Designed for students who have never taken a ballet class before, as well as for more experienced dancers. Repeatable for

  • (sophisticated whistles), the reed pipes create tone by means of a vibrating brass tongue that works in a similar way as the reed of an orchestral clarinet. Different shaped resonators permit a variety of quasi woodwind and brass timbres, such as Trompet, Dulcian, Hautbois and Posaune. Reed pipes are available either for solar purposes or to add the final poet to a full ensemble. The Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Organ is remarkable for its large number of reed stops (14) each requiring great skill and time to

  • believe that a person who has experienced and truly felt the magic of a Picasso painting or the emotional depth of a Beethoven symphony will become a more compassionate person with an expanded appreciation for what it means to be fully human.” Read Previous New work celebrates the 500th anniversary of the Reformation Read Next Three-time Grammy Award winning saxophonist Jeff Coffin joins the PLU Jazz Ensemble on stage LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the

  • . “His rehearsal style is a perfect balance of cutting edge pedagogy and inventive setup, sequencing, and scheduling,” Galante says. “His compositions are tailor-made for the Jazz Ensemble and he, seemingly effortlessly, showcases the strengths of the group.” And while Vianna enjoys the accolades his work has earned him, and the challenges it presents, his true passion is to help others. His mother, who learned to play the organ to fill a need for a musician at her church, told him music can do just

  • experiences. I also knew Beth’s razor-sharp memory would be essential to mapping out the scope of this project. Beth arrived at PLU in 1989, after a two-year stint teaching at Elon University (Elon College at the time) in North Carolina: a state where same-sex intimacy was banned and where Beth was living with her long-term partner, Suzanne. They both wanted to wind up in Washington (Beth had grown up here and attended UW) because, “more than anything,” they loved the Northwest. It helped that Washington

  • far northwestern end of St. Lawrence Island. It sits in the middle of the Bering Straight, a mere 38 miles from Siberia. There Stephen met his wife, Shelley, a member of the Siberian Yup’ik tribe that has inhabited the cold, wind-blown island for hundreds of years. Zach lived in Gambell until age nine when the family moved to Naknek, a town of some 700 people situated on Bristol Bay on the southwest coast of mainland Alaska. Stephen, who had taught high school biology in Gambell, took a job as a

  • distributed by Parkland Light & Water, net metering allows customers to get credit for the electricity they generate with solar, wind or water and send it back through their utility meter. Tegels said if he produces more energy than he uses, that electricity cycles through the grid which powers houses served by Parkland Light & Water. “PLU could be using some of my electricity,” Tegels said. “But I don’t know how that goes.” In addition to generating his own power, and even a little bit more than he needs

  • occupational health standards, workers who are exposed to temperature extremes, radiant heat, humidity, or air velocity combinations that are likely to cause a harmful physiological response must be protected.3.0 Factors Associated With Thermal Stress 3.1 Cold Stress Presence of wet clothing, contact with metals, wind-chill, and difference in temperature between the body and its surroundings directly influence the risk and extent of cold injuries. Vulnerability is increased when cardiovascular disease

  • coupling the technical with the expressive and the study of music with application at the highest levels. We offer as much as you’d like: a professional degree or a minor participation in an ensemble, or just a great lesson every week. Our faculty are world-class musicians and educators, and our students have access to workshops, lessons and performance opportunities with working musicians from all over the country. We produce about 150 performances every year: choral, band, symphonic, operatic, solo

  • and Me. Dr. Rhone Fraser RHONE FRASER is a lecturer in the Department of English at Howard University.  He is a member of the College Language Association, the Dramatists Guild, and the Alice Childress Society.  His dissertation includes a literary analysis of the plays of Lorraine Hansberry and Alice Childress.  He was a playwriting student of Leslie Lee (1930-2014) who was former artistic director of the Negro Ensemble Company and he is writing a forthcoming article about the Leslie Lee’s play