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the ball just kept rolling. PLU’s University Symphony Orchestra Conductor Jeffrey Bell-Hanson approached Nance about doing the Ninth Symphony with the University Symphony Orchestra, so a third Beethoven performance was added. In addition to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony choirs will also perform Beethoven’s in C-Major Mass, Opus 86, for the first two performances. The 47-minute work is for a four-voice choir and full orchestra. Saturday, May 11 | 7pm | Everett Civic Auditorium  The Choir of the West

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

perform.” It’s so amazing seeing how many people can sing and what they can sing, Anderson said of her experience. “I love to sing,” she said. “It’s kind of fun to sing outside of choir and voice lessons.” There is a ton of variety, Anderson said. “As fun as it may be to watch people who can’t sing, I can’t do it,” she said. “It is kind of nice to find out that your friends can sing and get them up there and support them.” All three contestants had the same advice for those on the fence about

and who he met. It was a way to deal with it, not just as a form of coping, but also out of a necessity to have his voice heard. Hrivnak was frustrated by what he saw on the news about the war. It didn’t tell the whole story. A ticker would go across the screen stating that 10 U.S. soldiers had been killed that day, but for him it seemed so hollow of an explanation of what had happened.  He knew that the 10 to 1 rule was usually in play, when the dead were listed, which meant for every one killed

television and streaming viewers in its first year, the Coalition has succeeded in making political candidates for public office more accessible to voters. “When neighborhoods are underrepresented, they lose their voice,” Eckstein said. “By bringing this debate to the area, we’re working to enhance our community.” Read Previous Upcoming Gallery Exhibition- “It’s All in the Details” Read Next Q&A with Kelly McLaughlin ’14 LATEST POSTS Pacific Lutheran University Communication students help forgive nearly

discovered that her voice to easily reached the  higher registers required of opera singers. Since then, she’s been hooked. She loves the collaboration between theater and music that occurs in opera and plans to continue on to graduate school, and  – she  hopes – to a major company later in her career. Kirsten Kamna will be singing “Ophelia’s Mad Scene” from Hamlet. Read Previous Actors explore the world of Japanese puppetry Read Next Coming Full Circle: Embracing the past to learn about the future

Boaz As Sorayah Surkatty reflects on her new career in the realm of big voices and classical music, she credits her connections with her voice coach and PLU music lecturer Holly Boaz, and Jim Brown, associate professor of music, with securing her connections with the Vashon Opera on Vashon Island, Wash. More >> Stories by Barbara Clements, Chris Albert and Steve Hansen.  Photography by John Froschauer. Read Previous Evacuation drill Read Next Artifacts Day COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated

Union. My involvement has kept me singing great music 51 years after first joining the Choir of the West. And I wasn’t a voice major! Phil Nesvig ’70 Tickets for Mozart’s Requiem are $5-$17 and are on sale now online only at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/plu-choral-union-tickets-66723960161. Tickets may also be purchased at the door right before the performance. For additional information, call the Department of Music at 253.535.7602 or email music@plu.edu. Connect with us at facebook.com/PLUMusic

contributing author for the immensely popular textbook series Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, by GIA Publications, and is published in the NBA Journal, Voice Magazine, and the Journal of Band Research. Dr. Powell instructs students from Japan's Tamana School Band during an exchange trip to PLU and Graham-Kapowsin High School in 2016. Read Previous PLU’s Choral Union presents Mozart’s Requiem Read Next Regency Voices on KING FM’s NW Focus Live LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio

, “worth giving your life for.” PLU students search for, and articulate to themselves and to each other, convictions that provide steadiness and inspiration. They test their aspirations and convictions against the ideas, concepts and theories they engage in class. They search out faculty who will converse with them about how what they are learning in their courses connects to who they are becoming. They spend time with mentors who listen as they give voice to their developing senses of themselves and