Arts & Events

With the last day of class fast approaching, what better way to celebrate the end of another semester than sitting on Karlen Quad enjoying some of everyone’s favorite poplar music? “Pops is a concert on last day of classes—the afternoon concert on last day of classes—where wind ensemble and members of concert band play popular music,” sophomore music education major Minna Stelzner said. Specifically, “soundtrack music with student conductors,” sophomore music education major Stephen Abeshima added. “The purpose of Pops is three fold: it’s final for wind ensemble, the final...

Senior Theatre Festival will conclude this weekend with Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker, tonight at 7:30 p.m. and tomorrow at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Prepare for a unique trip into Celtic mythology and what happens when people no longer believe in creatures of folklore. The Skriker tells the tale of a shapeshifting fairy who is barely surviving in the underworld because the humans above have stopped telling her story. She leads the rest of the misshapen creatures in finding a way to keep their stories alive. Some of these creatures...

The Tacoma Opera finished its 2013-14 season last weekend with great triumph. After a fantastic three shows this year—Pirates of Penzance, Barber of Seville and Madama Butterfly—the company is thrilled for next season, featuring The Magic Flute, The Mikado and Romeo et Juliette. This year Tacoma witnessed the amazing talents of the Tacoma Opera Company in three magnificent productions. Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan, the opera buffa (or comic opera), featured Eric Neuville as Frederic, Director of Vocal Studies at Puget Sound Dawn Padula as Ruth, Ryan Bede...

The Blue Mouse Theatre on Proctor hosted an informal music festival on April 11 of three talented musical groups, each of whom showed off their unique styles through a variety of musical genres and pieces. The first act, What She Said, introduced themselves as Puget Sound’s “only all-women a cappella group.” What She Said’s first piece was a cover of Alicia Keys’s “Fallin’,” arranged by Stephanie Gates, in which the deep, soulful voice of soloist Jennifer Kullby balanced nicely with the lighter background singers and the rhythm vocalists. Following this,...

A free concert honoring the achievement of Paul Fritts ’73 will be held Sunday, April 27 at 2 p.m. in Kilworth Memorial Chapel. Fritts earned the “Outstanding Music Alumnus” award in 2013 for his work in organ-building and design. Accomplished university organist Joseph Adam will perform the concert. The Twenty-third Annual Bethel Schneebeck Organ Recital will include works by Heinrich Scheidemann, Francois Couperin, Johann Sebastian Bach, César Franck and Maurice Duruflé. Adam has performed in numerous cathedrals—including those in the Netherlands, Vienna, England and Washington, D.C.— earned many awards—including first...