4 • The Clackamas Print • May 28, 2003
FEATURE
Vocalist to share musical talent
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In pursuit of her dream to sing professionally, Brandy Golston will
present Clackamas' first f tl-length recital performed by a student
Sadie McCarthy
The Clackamas Print
When photographing Brandy
Golston, I asked her mid-pose if I
might hear her voice. You can’t tell
from the picture, but our sopho
more sweetie-pie can create a tidal
wave of sound.
Back in 1993, then 15-year-old
Golston had her heart set on study
ing opera. Her passion was encour
aged with voice lessons and a posi
tion in Roseburg High’s select
ensemble.
“I was honored at an award cer
emony,” said Golston, “where I
sang in front of five to six thousand
people.”
However, once she graduated in
’96, she began a four-year search
for her true niche in life.
“I went to George Fox
University for one year, worked
hard in a saw mill another and then
went to Multnomah Bible College
for a year,” said Golston. “I met
my husband, Josh, during that
time.”
Because her husband works full
time, Golston has been able to pur
sue her dream of singing profes
sionally.
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“I give all credit to Josh,’/'¿he
said. “He has allowed me to do this.”
Golston came to Clackamas to
continue her education, initially not
studying music.
“I didn’t have the courage to
dedicate my [education] to music,”
Golston explained. “It’s ah unsta
ble field because you never know
what job you’ll get.”
Now that she has spent three
years thoroughly studying music,
she doesn’t plan to leave silently.
This year Golston, her vocal
coach LeaAnne Denbeste and
Choir Director Lonnie Cline
designed a professional preparation
course to begin her career. For her
final project, Golston has selected
and memorized many classical
songs for Clackamas’ first full
recital performed by a student
accompanied by a professional.
“I hope it goes well,” said
Golston. “I’ve never been in the
limelight before—I’m nervous!”
In order to receive the full
sound effect of this photograph, be
sure to attend her public debut solo
recital in the Gregory Forum this
Saturday at 2 p.m.
Brandy Colston sings for the photographer. She will perform a solo recitaTin the
Gregory Forum at 2 p.m. this Saturday.
Third Word and Form extends artistic invitation to
entire campus, benefits from diverse new entries
Elisabeth Meyer
The Clackamas Print
“This is incredible," said Kate
Gray, English instructor. “This just
doesn’t happen in a classroom.”
Gray and Katy McFadden have
upped the ante of their third Word
and Form collaboration by not only
making it a volunteer project but also
taking it out of the classroom setting.
“The work that’s being done has
been phenomenal,” said Gray. “I’ve
gotten responses from all over cam
pus, from staff, students and classi
fied (employees), and from all divi
sions—industrial, art and athletics.”
In both previous collaborations,
students in Gray’s poetry classes
wrote poems that McFadden's stu
dents interpreted in ceramic work.
The ceramic pieces then inspired
new poems from Gray’s students,
and the process cycled as time
allowed.
Gray and McFadden facilitated
the exchange so that neither artist
knew whose work .they were
responding to.
In the most recent Word and Form
project during fall term, Melissa
Bledsoe was enrolled in both classes
that participated in the collaboration.
She molded clay around her own
hand to create a hand holding a fem
in response to Bonita Richardson’s
poem, and then listened in poetry
class while Richardson talked about
how thrilled she was with the piece.
Not knowing that the creator was lis
tening, Richardson joked about sim
ply not returning it.
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“She keeps saying, 'I feel like it's
mine,'”
Bledsoe reported to
McFadden's class.
“The work
that’s been
done has
been phe
nomenal.”
Kaie Gray
English Instructor
“(Bledsoe’s piece) just so hap
pened to fit the poet’s hands exactly,”
Gray said. “Bonita was just raving
about it.”
That kind of response is exactly
what prompted McFadden to set the
project in motion several years ago.
During the past fall and winter,
Gray thought opening Word and
Form to anyone on campus would be
a pleasant distraction from budget
and war tensions.
“We started with the prompt 'war
or peace,'” Gray said. Each partici
pant began with a piece and traded.
As in previous projects, Gray and
McFadden facilitate the exchanges
so that only they know whose work is
whose.
Gray traded a short story for one
of several works McFadden had cre
ated on the day Iraq was attacked.
“You can always tell a McFadden
piece. She has a very recognizable
style,” Gray said. “But this... it was
so difficult to look at, I had to give it
back to her.”
WORK AT HOME
AS A PROFESSIONAL
Brandy Golston Student Vocal Recital
Saturday, May 31 at 2 p.m-. in the Gregory Forum.
Free.
MEDICAL
TRANSCRIPTIONIST
Instrumental Jazz Night
Wednesday, June 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the McLoughlin
Theatre.
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ANNUAL INCOME
Band Concert
Thursday, June 5 at 7:30 in the Gregory Forum.
Vocal Jazz Night
Friday, June 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the Gregory Forum.
Chamber Choir Concert
Sunday, June 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the Gregory
Forum.
Admission is $5 for instrumental concerts.
Vocal concert admission is $6 for adults, and $3 for
students. Children 12 and under can attend for free.
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Unlike McFadden’s usual works,
“it had enormous shoulders and over
sized hands,”- Gray said, “and a tiny
skull sort of turning into itself, like it
was guilty.”
With the notable exception of
Herman, as Gray named the statue,
much of the work is stored in Gray’s
office^ The rest is in McFadden’s
office and the ceramics studio or in
■transit.
The two organizers plan to have
an exhibition around graduation, but
since the Pauling Gallery is full, Gray
is looking for a gallery off-campus.
She also plans to. put McFadden’s
photos of work and poems on the
evolving Web site Write as Rain,
where it will be the pilot collabora
tion. You can visit the Web site at
www.writeasrain.org.
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