Music

Trevor Talks Music Transcription

(piano music)

[video: Open on Trevor standing outside on PLU’s campus, pillars and a building behind him.]

Trevor: Hi all, my name is Trevor Kytola, I use he/him/his pronouns and I’m a sophomore music education major here at PLU.

[video: Trevor’s voice continues over clips of the inside of the Mary Baker Russell building. A shot of an engraved sign for the building, the engraving in gold and the title of the building in a circle around an engraved flower. A shot of the stairs in the building, with a glass wall on one side and glass blown artwork in green, blue, white, and red. A shot of the outside of the building in fast-motion, cloud racing by.]

Travor: Today we’re going to show you the Mary Baker Russell Music Center as well as talk about all things music department.

[video: Return to Trevor outside. He stands at the top of an outdoor amphitheater.]

Trevor: Our first stop here on my right, your left, is going to be our amphitheater.

[video: Trevor’s voice continues over photos from the Jazz Under the Stars event. People in folding chairs sitting around the rows of the amphitheater, a band of drums, piano, bass, and singer at the base of the venue. A photo of the lead singer performing, a Jazz Under The Stars poster behind her. A photo of the PLU Men’s Acapella group performing at the amphitheater.]

Trevor: Here our events like Jazz Under the Stars happen, as well as student performances from our acapella groups on campus.

[video: Return to Trevor, who now walks backwards towards the door of the Mary Baker Russell building.]

Trevor: As a whole, PLU has 17 ensembles.

[video: Trevor’s voice continues over photos. A photo of PLU’s brass section, students blowing trumpets and tubas. A shot of choral singers performing in black suits and dresses, text reads: Over 150 Concerts Each Year!]

Trevor: And offers over 150 concerts each year.

[video: return to Trevor walking backwards.]

Trevor: There are many ways to get involved with music at PLU and we’ll talk about a few of them today.

[video: Trevor walks into a practice room in the building.]

Trevor: Here on the second level of MBR is where all our practice rooms are.

[video: Trevor’s voice continues over clips of students practicing. A shot of a sign reading “Practice Room.” A student and professor play pianos next to each other in a room with books all over the shelves.]

Trevor: At PLU students practice through all hours of the day, and usually for their private lessons.

[video: Return to Trevor standing in a practice room in front of a piano.]

Trevor: At PLU any student can take private lessons in any medium

[video: Text appears at the bottom of the screen: “Private Lessons Open To Anyone!”]

Trevor: And you don’t even have to be a music major or in an ensemble to participate. As well as having our practice rooms, a lot of professor and faculty offices are here. I really love PLU because our professors are required to have office hours

[video: Trevor’s voice continues over clips. A conductor conducts an orchestra while a choir performs above him. A close up of a student singing in the choir. A clip of the strings section.]

Trevor: and they’re really accessible to students. In addition to this, a lot of our professors are still performing themselves and have a lot of great insight to the performance realm.

[video: Trevor stands in a large performance space. His voice then continues over clips taken of the space. A sweeping top-to-bottom shot of the space: pendant lights hang from the ceiling, black noise reducing panels line the highest part of the white brick walls, there are several black chairs and a piano. A shot of an ensemble, guitar, bass, cella and drummer as a professor conducts them.]

Trevor: Here we are in MBR 322, one of our largest rehearsal spaces on campus. Ensembles that rehearse in here are our University Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combos, Concert Band,

[video: Return to Trevor standing inside the room.]

Trevor: and Wind Ensemble, and I’ve actually used this space to rehearse

[video: Trevor’s voice continues over a shot from an opera, a leading man in historical dress sings to a woman in peasant dress. Trevor and another student sing, a poster of Hamilton behind them. A photo of Trevor performing onstage.]

Trevor: operas in before. One of my favorite parts about being a music education major at PLU is that they don’t ask you to stop performing and they in fact ask you to keep honing in on your craft.

[video: Return to Trevor in the large practice space.]

Trevor: In addition to that, a lot of our student clubs will meet here in 322, including American Choral Directors Association, Collegiate Washington Music Educators Association, Opera Club, and many more music clubs in between.

[video: Trevor walks into a different practice space, this one has chairs on risers for a choir to perform, a piano in front of them.
Trevor: Next up we have MBR 306 which is our choral rehearsal space on campus. At PLU we have four main choral ensembles:
[video: Trevor’s voice continues over photos of choir ensembles. A photo of students in black singing, the text at the bottom reads: “Choir of the West.” A photo of students in formal black suits and dresses singing, the text at the bottom reads: “University Chorale.” A group of female students in long black dresses singing, text reads “University Singers.” A photo of male students and one female student posing for a group photo on the stairs of the Mary Baker Russell building, text reads: “Knights Chorus.”]

Trevor: our two mixed groups, Choir of the West and University Chorale; our Soprano Alto group, University Singers; & our Tenor Bass group, Knights Chorus.

[video: Return to Trevor in the practice room.]

Trevor: In addition to this, we do have chapel choir that meets two times a week, hand bell choir which meets once a week, and two acapella ensembles,

[video: Trevor’s voice continues over photos of acapella groups. The women’s group performs on stage, dressed in gold and black outfits. The men’s group performs, dressed uniformly in all black.]

Trevor: Hermonic and Plutonic, respectively.

[video: Return to Trevor speaking in the practice room.]

Trevor: For all choral ensembles at PLU, you do not have to be a music major to participate.

[video: Trevor sits down on the bench of the piano in the space.]

Trevor: In addition to being a rehearsal space, 306 also doubles as a classroom. All music majors of all types, including musical arts, performance, education, et cetera take the music core.

[video: Text appears at the bottom of the screen reading: “Music Core.”]

Trevor: At PLU the music core is classes like ear training, keyboarding, theory, music history, and then students can choose specialization classes such as conducting, pedagogy, or even music in culture.

[video: The camera pans from the top of organ pipes set in ornately carved wood, to Trevor standing below on a large stage, a piano behind him.]

Trevor: And finally, here we are in Lagerquist Concert Hall,

[video: Trevor’s voice continues over a photo of Lagerquist Hall, an orchestra and choir perform at Christmas, the hall is decorated elaborately with wreaths and Christmas lights.
the center of all music in MBR.]

Trevor: Among other things, today we talked about the fact

[video: Return to Trevor standing onstage.]

Trevor: That you don’t have to be a music major to be involved in ensembles or lessons.
We have so many amazing rehearsal spaces available to us at PLU, and we talked a little bit about the music core and what it means to be a music major. If you have any more questions, please leave them in a comment below, and be sure to like and subscribe on this video.

[video: Trevor waves to the camera.]

Trevor: My name is Trevor and I hope to see you at PLU soon.
(piano music)