Candle Riggs

Pacific’s music department gears up for the 76th year of Music in May The music department here at Pacific University has a long standing tradition of inviting high school students to join the Music in May program every summer. From May 22 until 24, students will be participating in band and choral practice, as well as having special-guest conductors.

Cait Wilson shares the journey that brought her to her junior voice recital “I have done solo performances in the past, but not this long and not in such a formal recital format,” expresses junior Cait Wilson as she lists the details of her upcoming vocal performance. This junior recital will be a 30-minute show, performed solely by Wilson as preparation for her senior recital which will take place next spring. “…the senior recital, which I’ll do next year, which will be about an hour performance.

Dylan Heimbuch performs his long-awaited Junior Recital The overhead lights lower in the Taylor-Meade Performing arts center and the audience of students hush to a reverent silence. It is the junior recital for Dylan Heimbuch, an ardently involved vocal performer and music education major. As soon as Heimbuch and his accompanying pianist, Jennifer Creek Hughes take the stage, the program begins.