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Featuring works by Pergolesi, Mondonville, Bach, Purcell, Del Aguila, Mallory, Kinsley and Tippet, this concert will contrast rare gems from the Baroque and modern eras.

Joined by soprano Heidi Vass and violinist Keum Hwa Cha, Kinsley’s recital will be a delightful musical tour guaranteed to delight the audience with virtuosic artistry.

The concert will include selections from works by The Carpenters in celebration of Cal Lutheran’s new grand piano donated by Richard Carpenter.

Donations will be accepted. For information, call the Music Department at 805-493-3306 or visit callutheran.edu/music.

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Thursday, Sept. 30, 7 p.m. Ullman Conference Center 100/101

Don H. Doyle, Ph.D., will discuss how the Civil War was viewed abroad as part of a much larger struggle for democracy that began with the American and French Revolutions and spanned the Atlantic Ocean.

Foreign observers held widely divergent views on the war — from radicals such as Karl Marx and Giuseppe Garibaldi who called on the North to fight for liberty and equality, to aristocratic monarchists who hoped that the collapse of the Union would strike a death blow against democratic movements on both sides of the Atlantic.

Nowhere were these monarchist dreams more ominous than in Mexico, where Napoleon III sought to implement his Grand Design for a Latin Catholic empire that would thwart the spread of Anglo-Saxon democracy and use the Confederacy as a buffer state.

Hoping to capitalize on public sympathies abroad, both the Union and the Confederacy sent diplomats and special agents overseas. Doyle frames the Civil War as a pivotal moment in a global struggle that would decide the survival of democracy and the future of equality. Doyle is a professor emeritus of history at the University of South Carolina and has retired to Folly Beach, South Carolina. His 2014 book, “The Cause of All Nations: An International History of America’s Civil War,” moves beyond the familiar narrative of Civil War battlefields and the homefront to view the conflict from abroad. He is also the author of “Nations Divided: America, Italy, and the Southern Question;” and “Faulkner’s County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha.” The free event is sponsored by the Department of History, the Alpha Xi Psi Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society, and the Organization of American Historians. For more information, contact David Nelson at dnelson@callutheran.edu. Please visit callutheran.edu/events before attending to verify details because event information may change. Please check callutheran.edu/visitors for the latest visitor policies before visiting campus.

Piano faculty member Hui Wu will present an evening of classical music with violin faculty member Keum Hwa Cha and guest clarinetist Margaret Thornhill.

Donations will be accepted. For information, call the Music Department at 805-493-3306 or visit callutheran.edu/music.


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University organist Adan Fernandez will present a program of Bach, Mendelssohn, Saint-Säens, Buxtehude and more.

The recital will begin with a short lecture by Fernandez, who holds a DMA in sacred music from the University of Southern California, on the music of Bach and his theology.

Donations will be accepted. For information, call the Music Department at 805-493-3306 or visit callutheran.edu/music.

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Thursday-Sunday, Oct. 21-23, 8 p.m.; Oct. 24, 2 p.m. Holding the world record for longest-running play in the same theater, The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco follows the Smiths, a middle-class English couple, and their dinner party with their good friends, the Martins. Their small talk is merry, but something lurks beneath their white-knuckled grip on society’s convention of communication.


Student Grace Phenicie will direct the play produced by the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance.


Admission is free. For more information, call 805-493-3452.

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The Cal Lutheran Choir and Women’s Chorale will open the season with one of their hallmark concerts featuring an eclectic program of exciting and innovative contemporary choral music.


The choirs also will honor their musical heritage by paying tribute to the great composer J.S. Bach by performing his music throughout this season.


Donations will be accepted. For information, call the Music Department at 805-493-3306 or visit callutheran.edu/music. Please visit callutheran.edu/events before attending to verify details because event information may change. Please check callutheran.edu/visitors for the latest visitor policies before visiting campus.

Each fall the university community gathers to celebrate the timely mission of the university and marks the occasion with a festive convocation. We celebrate the educational commitment of the university to equip graduates who are called and empowered to serve their neighbors so that all may flourish.

The program includes installing the Board of Regents, commissioning the Convocation and recognizing the recipients of the Christus Award.

The Christus Award is given annually to individuals in recognition of their contributions to strengthening the bridge between the church and the university or making significant contributions to higher education in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).

The Convocation speaker is Vance Blackfox, director for the American Indian Alaska Native Desk of the ELCA. As a part of ELCA Global Missions staff, he nurtures engagement in communities through the practice of accompaniment, justice and advocacy so that together all may become better global citizens and responsible and compassionate people. Blackfox is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. The Founders Day Convocation will be livestreamed at callutheran.edu/live. The Division of Mission and Identity is sponsoring the free event. For information, call 805-493-3589 or missionandidentity@callutheran.edu.


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Music Department students celebrate Homecoming weekend and the founding of the university with an eclectic array of solo and chamber performances. This concert highlights the musical abilities and achievements of our talented students.

Donations will be accepted. For information, call the Music Department at 805-493-3306 or visit callutheran.edu/music.


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The Cal Lutheran choral ensembles and University String Symphony combine forces to present the annual Christmas Festival Concerts.

Welcome the season with this special musical gift featuring a narrated performance of Christmas music guaranteed to put you in the holiday mood. As always, the program for this longest-running event will include delightful lesser-known carols as well as familiar favorites. Wyant Morton and Yoshika Masuda will conduct.

These concerts are popular, so arrive early for convenient parking. Doors open one hour before the concerts.

Tickets are $15 (free with Cal Lutheran ID), and must be purchased in advance. For tickets or more information, call the Music Department at 805-493-3305 or visit callutheran.edu/music.

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The pandemic prompted California Lutheran University’s 2021 graduating art majors to delve deeper into their creative sides, and the results are on display in a virtual exhibit. “Escapism,” which explores the outlets the students sought to escape their isolation under the pandemic, will run through Sept. 30. The art reflects the students’ pandemic lives and the reprieves they sought.

Jiarong Bi of Oak Park drew inspiration from music, film and expressionism for her paintings and sketches.

Mixed-media artist Lauren Graf of Carpinteria, drew her inspiration from vintage aesthetics and Art Nouveau illustrations.

Inspired by sci-fi and fantasy, Nicholas Hayes of Los Angeles combined elements of beauty and horror in his sculptures, looking for interesting ways to abstract the human form and breathe life into the bizarre beings of his imagination.

Jasmine Alexandra O. of Thousand Oaks explored imaginative realism in her multimedia pieces, striving to create a world populated by people and animals in which the impossible exists, from magic to beautiful long-lost cities.

Often starting with a photo from her camera roll, Nicole Ishii of Hawaii created mixed media works that framed memories of love and happiness in ways that authentically represent Hawaiian culture and people. Visit the virtual exhibit at https://rollandgallery.wixsite.com/escapism.

Cal Lutheran’s Art Department and Rolland Gallery are sponsoring the free exhibit, which can be found at rollandgallery.wixsite.com/escapism. For more information, contact curator Rachel Schmid at rollandgallery@callutheran.edu or 805-493-3697 or visit CalLutheran.edu/rolland. Please visit callutheran.edu/events before attending to verify details because event information may change. Please check callutheran.edu/visitors for the latest visitor policies before visiting campus.