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LCU hosts area band competition March 10-11

PINEVILLE, La. (LCNews) -- Louisiana Christian University will host 16 middle and high school bands competing in the the Louisiana Music Educators’ Association District 2 Large Ensemble Performance Assessment March 10-11. This is the first in-person iteration of LEPA held in the district since 2019 due to COVID restrictions. The bands, from Rapides and surrounding parishes, will perform for and receive feedback from expert music educators on their bands’ performance abilities based on their performances of three pieces of prepared repertoire, chosen from a prescribed list, as well as a separate performance of music previously unknown to them. LEPA takes place in all nine districts of LMEA; similar events are held in nearly every state in America, said Joshua Davis, LCU director of bands and assistant professor of music.   … [Read more...]

Two LCU students participating in Student Scholars Forum in Shreveport

PINEVILLE, La. (LCNews) - Two Louisiana Christian University English majors, Bethany Nichols, a junior from Boyce, and Samantha Ray, a sophomore from Pineville, have had their papers accepted into the 7th Annual LSUS Regional Student Scholars Forum to be held March 11 in Shreveport. The forum is open to both undergraduate and graduate students across Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas to submit research and creative work from business, education, science and math, and social sciences. “The English faculty encouraged all junior and senior English majors and minors to submit an abstract for a paper written for one of their recent English classes,” said Jeannie Gauthier, chair of the Division of Language and Literature. “Both Bethany and Samantha are stellar students.” Nichols’ paper is titled “Benefits of Colonialism in Kipling’s India,” while Ray’s paper “A&P: A Clash Between Decades” deals with the hostility between the generations as conservative 1950s gives way to a tumultuous 1960s in Updike’s work. Before transferring to LCU in spring 2022, Ray had two essays published in the 2020 Jongleur, the LSUA literary magazine. … [Read more...]