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Becky Wiley
The Clackamas Print
Jeff Sorensen Clackamas Pnnt
Members of the Chamber Choir take time away from their rehearsals
for the upcoming holiday choir concerts set for Dec. 3rd and 5th
The holiday season is just around the
comer, and preparations for the upcom
ing band and choir concerts have been
completed with the help of instructors
Dave Mills and Lonnie Cline.
All throughout the new music build
ing sounds of glorious voices and instru
ments can be heard practicing for the
three biggest nights of this time. This
end of the term special allows students
to celebrate by going out with a bang.
The dates are approaching fast, and
it’s *ime to spread the word of the won
derful talents of the music department of
Clackamas. Come enjoy yourself at the
band and choir concerts near the end of
this term.
The band concert will be performed
on Nov. 24. According to the band stu
dents, the concert should last about 45
minutes, and snacks and refreshments
will be available after the concert.
“I hope the faculty and students come
and hear the band,” encoi
Director Dave Mills. “It’s th
Thanksgiving and a chancel
really great music.”
Five pieces have been
this event, and featured mu
Phillip Sparke, Gustav Holsi
are planned to be performed
As for the choir concert,
A. Vivaldi will be perfornti
Mary’s Cathedral in P<j
Clackamas Choir, Chorah
Concertante Orchestra, and
perform on Dec. 3. The sht
promptly at 7:30 p.m. The
dents is $10, adults $22,
$16.
Christmas by Candleligh
choir concert, is Dec. 5
Admission is free for this si
John the Apostle Church,
direction of Lonnie
Clackamas Chamber Choir
will carry out beloved holid
You wouldn’t want to
three shows, so come have
as you check them out.
Final CD concludes Smith’s epic carl
The album opens with the
track “Coast to Coast,” a
swirling mesh of epic guitars
The Clackamas Print
and drums, cut by Elliott’s sig
One year after he tragically nature soft tenor voice.
Changing gears completely,
ended his own life in a Los
Angeles apartment, friends and the next song, “Let’s Get Lost,”
shines as an
family of indie
example
of
rock martyr and
what
Elliott
Portland
native
was best at:
Elliott Smith have
“You
t
simple
gui
given fans one last
deserve
tar/vocal
thing to remember
based biogra
lonely, but
him by. the release
phical hymns
of his final album,
drugs
of confession.
the
unfinished
got won
The
song
“From a Basement
would
not
on the Hill.”
make
have sounded
The LP, almost
feel
”
at all out of
complete upon the
place on his
time of Elliott’s
Elliott Smith
first,
self
death, is a collabo
Musician
titled release,
rative effort by ex
1969-2003
setting fans at
band members and
ease that this
loved ones, com
would not be
piling and putting
an
overpro
the
finishing
touches on songs “how Elliott duced letdown.
In his typical style, the most
would have wanted it,” using his
remarkable thing is the amount
cryptic memoirs as guides.
Ben Mar^s
don ’
to be
those
you
’t
you
better,
of wit put
into
the
lyrics. The
track “Pretty
(Ugly
Before)”
would be a
typical love
song if it
didn’t seem
to be a per
fect mock
ery of one,
with its sac-
c h a r i n e
ELLIOTT SMITH
sweet lyrics
of love, off
set with a nihilistic minor-key
edge which leaves the listener
unsure of how to feel about the
song, besides in awe of the
intense emotion and musicality.
Possibly the album’s best
track would be the heart
wrenching “Twilight,” in which,
backed by a chorus of strings,
chirping crickets and croaking
frogs, Elliott laments, “You
don’t deserve to be lonely, but
those drugs you got won’t make
you feel better. Pretty soon
you’ll find it’s the only little part
of your life you’re keeping
together.” Throughout the song,
the listener can’t help but won
der if this is a final peek into his
head, and is a more autobio
graphical than extroverted tale.
One would expect an album
like “From a Basement on the
Hill” to close with a mournful
ballad, but instead it closes with
the upbeat and almost defiant “A
Distorted View is Now a
Necessity to be Fra
says it all.
In the end, the (J
appointing about!
Basement on the Hi
his last. Although
work by any mead
have been done all
would have matii
adventure in a proa
But most of all, itil
tribute and go:
reminds fans of]
much he will be mi
‘Mr. Norrell’; lengthy book that’s worth every page of rea
Katie Wilson
The Clackamas Print
Once upon a time there was a
man in England called the Raven
King and he was the greatest
magician of all. But this was
many centuries ago and magic has
long since vanished
from
England.
It is now the beginning of die
nineteenth century. The Raven
King has been reduced to the posi
tion of resident obscure poetical
device. The King of England is
mad as a bat and nobody believes
in practical magic anyjnore.
Enter Mr. Norrell, reclusive,
fussy and a practical magician.
When he causes the statues in
Att-
York Cathedral to move and
speak, the news begins to spread
that magic is coming back to
England. Mr. Norrell settles in
London and decides it is his call
ing to use magic to aid England in
the war against Napoleon.
Next enter Jonathan Strange,
the brilliant, charming, and rich
young cad that becomes Norrell’s
pupil and who quickly begins to
surpass his tutor. Together Norrell
and Strange astonish England—
and most of the populated
world—with their accomplish
ments.
But as Strange’s skills increase
so does his fascination with the
wilder, “Raven King”-side of
practical magic. The partnership
between the two magicians of
England quickly turns into a rival
her over 10 years to write
ry as the secretive
and research. The
Norrell
hordes
« result is a book that
books of magic and
g reaches 782 pages
tries to keep his
JONATHAN I long, and is one of the
pupil back while
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Strange breaks away «
to develop his own
f while. It would proba
dangerous powers. i
bly be termed a fanta
However his heed
sy, but it is quite unlike
less pursuit threatens
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ple know. It reads
ship with Norrell, but
more like histori-
the
fate
of
■| cal fiction.
England
as
B
In this book
well.
P' j S'0 there are no pur-
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“Jonathan JH
leather-bound wench-
Strange & Mr.
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Norrell”
by
Wellington, resurrection of
Susanna Clarke took
the dead, eternal night, a
&
prophecy, not a few
and women, and a la
footnotes relating I
magic in England.]
is Clarke’s work, b|
hard to believe sic
English magic did i?
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Clarke’s writing
tedious. The book!
slightly modem
voice after all. All
can sometimes slo
text. The sheer leng
is another issue th
people. It is a big bo
I found that onceyi
you begin to wish
longer—even that ii]
end. So I suggest)]
book drag you in. I
We want your worst holiday story
We are looking for a reader who has the worst of all worst Holiday stories. There are
three rules: First each story must be kept under 200 words. Second, email stories to
A&Eed@clackamas.edu by Friday November 26 at 1 p.m., finally we need your name
and contact information. If we print your story you win a great prize.