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Talent in music department
contradicts low-profile image
ByCharlene Jensen
Of The Print
A glimpse into the music department at
Clackamas Community College reveals that,
although the College has very good recognition
throughout the area and even the country, few
students here have any insight into what is going
on with the department.
As Music Department Head Chairperson
LeRoy Anderson said, “Sometimes we feel
people on campus don’t know we exist.”
However, the music department does more
than exist. It is a constant source of activities.
For example, the Jazz Ensemble will be doing a
free joint concert with the University of
Portland Jazz Ensemble, at the University, on
Wednesday Oct. 19, at 8 p.m. The event looks
promising, and enjoyable, and is a great way to
spend an evening, Anderson said.
Nov. 16 marks a “Jazz Night,” featuring
both the vocal and instrumental Jazz Ensemble.
“One of the problems we have in schedul­
ing events is that we have no facility of our
own. Whenever we want to plan a concert or
program on campus we have to find a place to
hold it. Sometimes we use the mall or theater,
and for some of our bigger performances we try
to get the gym,” Anderson said.
All of the concerts performed on the
Clackamas Campus cost $2 for adults and $1
for students.
A bluegrass concert is planned Dec. 8, in
the Mall from 6-8 p.m. The College Corral and
the Community Choir will perform Dec. 11 at
7:30 p.m. in the Mall; the Wind Ensemble and
Chamber Choir will be playing that afternoon
in the Mall at 3 p.m.
Although the larger concerts are the only
ones mentioned, several more will be announc­
ed later in the term, including many off campus
shows. “The vocal groups played a lot of high
schools last year. We also performed the Jazz
Festival at the University of Idaho, and the
choir took a tour to Victoria, B.C.,” Choral
Director Lonnie Cline said. Last year the Jazz
Ensemble invited to be the guest band at the
festival of bands held by the Rose Festival
Assoc.; “It’s their stage band classic,” Ander­
son said.
It appears very right for Anderson and
Cline to be pleased with their department’s pro­
gress. The programs are carefully planned and
practiced and the music departmment is
recognized by other professionals, Anderson
said. “We (the College) have a lot of musicians
playing and teaching professionally who came
from our school,” he said.
Another facet of the department is the pro­
gram of individual performance groups. This
includes the Community Choir, which practices
in the evenings, the Big Band, for the musicians
who want to stay in practice and the orchestra,
which also rehearses in the evening. These
groups are free (unless the individual wants to
receive college credit)‘.‘We encourage anyore to
come,” Anderson said.
Lonnie Cline credits the success of the
music department to the staff. “We (the music
faculty) are a tight-knit group of people who
function really well together. We have the same
common goals and work for those goals
together,” he said.“It’s the people. We really
have nice, sincere people playing and singing
for us.”
“WE ARE A tight-knit group of people who function really well together,” Lonnie Cline,
pictured here with some, of his vocalists, said.
Photos by Jason Webb
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LeROY ANDERSON FEELS the music department doesn’t
receive all the credit it should. “Sometimes we feel people on
campus don’t know we exist,” he said.
AC/DC hits Tacoma
on way to Portland
By Rob Conner
Of The Print
After Thursday night’s
show in the Tacoma Dome,
Angus Young left little doubt
in my mind that he is the
premier rock guitarist in the
business today.
Wow! What a show.
Everyone who went to the
Tacoma show (rather than
Portland) was given an extra
treat in that Quiet Riot was ad­
ded to play with the previously
scheduled dyad of Fastway
and AC/DC.
The “Bad boys” from
down under played for all of
an hour and 45 minutes, mix­
ing songs from the current
Brian Johnson regime and all
of the now famous hits record­
ed by the late great Bon Scott.
Angus Young had a
special treat in store as he ap-e
peared in now-famous ap-
parell which was comprised of
a red velvet jacket with mat­
ching shorts and beenie (the
beenie he promptly lost on the
first song).
The Austrailian band
opened with “Guns for Hire,”
off their latest release “Flick
of the Switch.” Other songs
off the new album were the ti­
tle track, “Rising Power,”
and “House is on Fire.”
During “House is on
Fire” someone in the audience
(of an estimated 27,000) shot a
bottle rocket or some type of
flair which for a brief moment
did have the big house on fire.
The flair burned for several
minutes before it extinguished
itself. Several thousand dollars
damage was done.
Brian Johnson, who does
an outstanding job of singing
the older songs, sounded a lit­
tle ragged at times, but who
wouldn’t? I guess. From the
group’s first album with
Johnson, Back in Black, the
five man band played “Back
in Black,” “Hells Bells,”
“Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise
Pollution,” and “Shoot to
Thrill.”
Fastway opened the night
off and “played” for a half
hour, which seemed like
forever. The lead-singer strut­
ted around the stage like he
was the Mick Jagger of the
80’s while he did little to im­
press me. I’m just glad I didn’t
buy their album. I almost did
because of the checkered
cover. No, Fastway is not
heavy metal and shouldn’t
have been opening for the likes
of Quiet Riot and AC/DC.
Maybe a group like Journey or
REO Speedwagon.
Quiet Riot played for
forty-five minutes and was a
site for sore ears, pardon the
expression. They played five
songs off their new Metal
Health album: “Cum On Feel
the Noize,” “Slick Black
Cadillac,” “Love’s a Bitch,”
“Let’s Get Crazy ” and
“Metal Health,” as an encore.
I was a little disappointed
with the sound in the Tacoma
Dome. It was not near as loud
as the show in the Seattle Col­
iseum a year ago. Other than
that, all I can say is I can’t
wait till they come back.
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