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University Wind Symphony, Orchestra Concert, Oct. 3

September 25, 2015

The University Wind Symphony and Orchestra will open the 2015-2016 concert season with a free performance on Saturday, October 3, at 7:30 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. All faculty, staff, students, and the public are welcome. The Wind Symphony features violin instructor Kevin Lefohn performing the American premiere of Peter Adams’ Concerto Burlesca for violin […]

Filed Under: 09-28-2015, Academics, Events, Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: Performing and Fine Arts, University Orchestra, University Wind Symphony

UP Wind Symphony Invited to 2015 Oregon Music Education Conference

October 13, 2014

The University Wind Symphony has been invited to perform at the 2015 Oregon Music Education Association conference in Eugene, Ore., in January 2015, according to Patrick Murphy, performing and fine arts. The wind symphony was selected through a blind audition process, and this will be the first time a UP instrumental ensemble has ever performed […]

Filed Under: Academics, Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: Oregon Music Education Association, Patrick Murphy, Performing and Fine Arts, University Wind Symphony

Wind Symphony, Orchestra Concert, Nov. 23

November 15, 2013

The University of Portland Wind Symphony and Women’s Chorale will perform in concert on Saturday, November 23, at 7:30 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. The concert is free and open to the public. The photography of Ansel Adams will be celebrated in a new composition by Steve Danyew entitled “The World Alive,” featuring the Wind […]

Filed Under: 11-18-2013, Academics, Events, Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: Ansel Adams, Performing and Fine Arts, University Wind Symphony, Women's Chorale

Wind Symphony, Orchestra Concert

September 30, 2013

The University of Portland Wind Symphony and Orchestra will perform in concert on Saturday, October 5, at 7:30 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. The concert is free and open to the public. In an all-Russian program, the Orchestra will feature student concerto competition winner Cem Inan playing Rachmaninoff Concerto no. 1, as well as selections […]

Filed Under: Events, Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: Performing and Fine Arts, University Orchestra, University Wind Symphony

Wind Symphony, Orchestra Concert

February 25, 2013

The University Wind Symphony and Orchestra will present “Heart, Healing, and Hope,” dedicated to health care organizations, and the classic tale of Peter and the Wolf, on Sunday, March 3, at 5 p.m., in Buckley Center auditorium. The concert is free and open to all. Wind Symphony musical selections will include a world premiere by […]

Filed Under: Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: Performing and Fine Arts, Thom Greene, University Orchestra, University Wind Symphony

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Fr. Pat Hannon, CSC, published From Glory to Glory: A Pilgrim’s Notes From the Badlands of Grace. Occasioned by the author’s walking, with siblings, the famous Camino de Santiago in the fall of 2024, the book traces all manner of other pilgrimages—to and from home, family, love, self, and God. One Subject Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. November, 2025.

Jessica Murphy Moo, editor of Portland Magazine and director of storytelling, wrote the lyrics to two songs in “We Go On, Oswego,” a song cycle honoring female refugees who lived at Camp Ontario in upstate New York. From 1944-1946, Camp Ontario provided emergency shelter to refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. “We Go On, Oswego” was performed at Nazareth College, in collaboration with Finger Lakes Opera, on December 4, 2025. It was commissioned by Katie Hannigan, PhD. The song “There Is No Underground,” was written in collaboration with composer Maria Thompson Corley, and the song “My Table,” was written in collaboration with composer Kurt Erickson.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published “A Spirituality of Desert Discipleship for Our Times. Reflections on the Readings of the Third Sunday of Advent.” VoiceAfrique.org. December 13, 2025.

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