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?” The trip to Tennessee will be a homecoming of sorts for at least one Lute musician: Former Co-Director of University of Tennessee’s “Pride of the Southland” marching band, Powell will be conducting the Wind Ensemble. Powell, also a Professor of Music, is well-known in Tennessee, having taught conducting courses and music-education methods at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. In addition to co-directing the marching band while at UT, he also served as Assistant Director of Bands and was

had other plans, as a director connected with the Fifth Avenue Theatre in Seattle invited her to audition for a part in “Oklahoma!” soon after she graduated. Helland landed the part of Ado Annie, performing that part during the months of February and March. After “Oklahoma!” wrapped, she started preparations for the concert version of “Titanic,” along with PLU’s Choral Union, and then on to the ensemble in “Rent.” Helland can’t keep from shaking her head in disbelief at landing the parts so

aerospace, propulsion, aerodynamics and controls of aerial vehicles. The program will stimulate students’ interest in conducting research, and develop their understanding of interdisciplinary concepts through hands-on learning, STEM problem-solving skills, and enhance their ability to apply theoretical concepts to research problems. The program is designed to promote independence and the ability to collaborate effectively as part of a highly diverse team. Applications are currently being accepted and

as written by Michael Fink is set in a very gentle, dance-like fashion underneath chordal statements of the text by the choir. Morten Lauridsen is considered one of America’s most important composers of choral music, and his O Nata Lux (O Born of Light) is considered the definitive contemporary setting of that text. This piece comes from a larger work, Lux Aeterna, set in quasi-Renaissance style, with serene, chant-like chordal sections interwoven with sections of polyphony. Peter Philips is a

concepts, like showing musical expression through movement. She also played a video of Dr. T. André Feagin, director of bands in the department of music at Central Washington University, conducting an ensemble. “I wanted to show them someone who looks like them doing a job that they could never have thought of having access to,” Delos Reyes says. Though the video is five minutes long, “They were in a trance. The whole time they were just staring right at him and just saying, ‘Teacher, he looks like us

, was awarded the coveted Churchill International Fellowship and an Australia Council Grant to study in the USA and made her New York debut recital at Merkin Hall in 1983. The Alice Giles Concert is made possible by the generous support of The Greater Seattle Chapter of the American Harp Society, Patricia Wooster, and an anonymous donor. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated. Read Previous Going for a Grammy Read Next The Choir of the West: PLU’s Premier Choral Ensemble Keeps Particularly

Helen Weathermon Joyful Noise Endowment for Jazz Studies at PLU.CONCERT April 19, 2017 at 8pmKaren Hille Phillips Center for the Performing ArtsTickets$8 general admission $5 senior citizens (55+), military, alumni Free for PLU community, all students with an ID and 18 years and younger. Tickets are also available through the PLU Concierge Desk, 253-535-7411 and, if still available, at the door. Purchase Read Previous Celebrated composer and PLU alumna Cindy McTee visits campus Read Next Choral

) students Amanda Brasgalla, Taylor Lunka and Olivia Ash began to research the topic in October 2013. Their year-long investigation culminated with a new documentary titled Waste Not: Breaking Down the Food Equation, which premiered at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014. The trio of students, all senior communication majors and members of PLU’s MediaLab program, spent more than a year traveling and conducting nearly 100 interviews across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. “Waste Not is an

for safety during COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Edwin Powell conducts. Brass and wind students rehearse outdoors with Dr. Edwin Powell conducting. Dr. James Brown, in person, and Lee Anne Campos, virtually via laptop, conduct a socially distant vocal seminar with Maya Adams singing in Lagerquist Hall. Student Jackson Wray sings during a socially distant vocal seminar in Lagerquist Hall. Dr. James Brown gestures widely at vocal student Jackson Wray in a socially distant vocal seminar. Dr. James Brown, in

of students since. Claire Todd, an award-winning professor of geosciences and environmental studies, currently teaches Environmental Studies 350. How do students go about conducting this research? They collect water, and biologic and geologic samples from different locations in the watershed. They analyze these samples in PLU’s Rieke Science Center — identifying organisms that live in the creek and measuring the chemical characteristics of the water collected. All of this is accomplished in our