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Azusa Pacific University has a music department that is growing in stature. Its concerts throughout the year are combinations of students and faculty. At 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 22, Don Neufeld at the piano, with Alex Russell, violin, the Alumni Orchestra, and the Men’s Chorale and Chamber Singers, present a new composition, “The Lord’s Prayer”, by Professors Phil Shackleton and Michael Lee. This concert is in Stamps Rotunda of the Darling Library on the campus of APU. Admission is free for this concert. That will be followed on Jan. 23 and 24 at 7:30 p.m. in Wilden Atrium by an opera “Getting a Handle on Handel”—a musicale of highlights from Handel’s operas. Alex Russell conducts, Melanie Galloway is director, Robert Sage is at the harpsichord also as director. The APU Chamber Orchestra, student vocalists. Tickets are $7 and $13. At 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 29 Christopher Russell conducts the Chamber Orchestra and Concerto Competition Winners in Munson Recital Hall in a program of Mozart, Chopin, Bruch, Hindemith and a new work, “In Excelsis” by Weric Tanguy. Violist Amy Noonan (who graced Sierra Madre’s Ugo last month with her music), cellist Karen Hall, and pianist Maria Wietrzynska are the winner-soloists. Admission is free for this concert. All concerts are in facilities at the University.