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ntertainment Clackamas Prii Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2005 Gabe Stone The Clackamas Print When walking • into Yoko Miyama’s spacious office in the Niemeyer Center, one’s eyes don’t drift to the requisite plain desk or bookshelf, but instead behold two striking pianos. One, a grand piano in every sense of the word, suggests sounds of fluidity and enchantment. “It’s all about the grade,” said Miyama, commenting on how professionals choose pianos. Miyama favors grand pianos over traditional uprights. It is Miyama’s first.term at Clackamas Community College as a part-time instructor, and she has enjoyed her time here thus far. “I like the facilities. Students are all hardworking,” said Miyama. That is high praise coming from someone with Miyama’s musical background. Hailing from near Osaka, Japan, she began for mal lessons at.the age of four, Reflecting on. her past, Miyam^ finds that the piano is an essential part of it When asked about how long she has played the piapo, she answers, “As long as I can remember.” Miyama has been living in the United States for 15 years, initially in Indiana. Her resume boasts teaching assignments at the University of Illinois, University . of the Pacific, and at the University of Oregon, where she taught for Gabe Stone Clackamas Piano instructor Yoko Miyama (center) with students of her Piano for Pleasure (Music-111): (on Miyama’s left) Eric Lay, Isaac Li (on Miyama’s right) Frances Sanchez, and Matt Binggeli. Miyama is preparing for her doctoral thesis in Piano Performance four years. She recently gave students a taste of what she will be pre senting in order to receive her Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the University of Oregon, regaling them INTERIOR DESIGN AT MARYLHURST dKKjü r with selections from works by Beethoven, Chopin and Faure. Her final recital is similar to a doctoral dissertation. When asked about her prepara tion thus far, she said with a satis fied weariness, “A .lot of study. A lot of practice.” Miyama teaches piano instruc tion and keyboard skills here at the college. She gives one-on-one instruction through the school as well. This term she is also teach ing the popular Piano for Pleasure Charles Dickens' classic corning Katie, Wilson Adam J. Manly The Clackamas Print. As the holiday season takes off, Clackamas Repertory Theatre prepares to dazzle audi ences with their second produc tion, “A Christmas Carol.” Running Dec. 8 through 23, David McCann’s edgy adapta7 tion takes, great care to avoid departing too far from the clas sic Dickens tale. , “It’s what thebook was meant to be,” said Matt Morrison, who will portray several characters in the play, including Jacob Marley. “All the narration is verbatim from the book. We’re literally quoting the book, mak ing jt applicable to. the sce nario.” “‘A Christmas Carol’ is not really a sentimental story,” added CRT manager Cynthia Smith-English. “It’s a ghost story. Kind of scary, but at the end warm-hearted.” The play will be directed by Karlyn Love, who teach es drama at Oregon City High School. Morrison says that Love’s approach to the play, while different from the stan dard approach of Clackamas’ Drama Instructor David Smith- English, works perfectly. “[Love] is also a choreogra pher,” said Morrison. “And with 10 people on stage at the same time, you have to be very detail- VISUAL, TACTILE, KINETIC, PHYSICAL Color Texture Light Fabric Carpet Wallpaper Concrete Wood * Metal Paint Glass Blueprints * CAD drawing Drafting Design Process Furnishings Windows . 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With! an extravagant set built! stage, “A Christmas Carol’’! rely more on the talented eil person cast, who weave ini out of multiple characters ! narrator roles. . “It’s good to work with pl pie who haye been doing this! a long time,” Morrison said, I anybody was gone, the whi thing would not work.” . More information on I show, including ticket prill can be found by browsing CM website at www2.clackail edu/crt/index.asp. Local MC Village Elliot disappoints Jimi McDonnell The Clackamas Print Portland’s underground rap scene has expanded over the past few years, going from almost non-existent to a . quite extensive list of MCs doing what they call “their thang.” To á lot of people, “doing your thing,” or “thang,” means creating original music and busting ass to promote it. But to some jt means taking every MCs style admirable, putting them all, together and mak ing some grade-A biter music. That’s what local MC Village Elliot’s promo disc sounds like. As a rapper, I am the first to cringe at the idea of shooting down a local artist and giving him a bad review - or in the hip-hop world “no love” - but this time I feel I have no other choice but serve the community and let them know there is a fake MC among us. ' A friend of mine compared Elliot to “Bubba Sparx and Necro.” Necro is a grimy New York MC and producer who is hard as hell and doesn’t worry about anything he says. Elliot’s deliv ery and voice sounds influenced by Necro. Bubba Sparks, on the other hand, is just a fat southern sell out rapping about bling, rings and other irrelevant things. Mix ‘em together and you have Village Elliot. Sitting with the crew bud ing to this product of Portia! underground, Village Ell] promo, we all simply laughed Song after song, from intro to the bonus track, sucked. But hats off to Elliott wasn’t the worst. He starts his promotion I with an intro downing his oj name and sort of punking w self, a typical tactic found many weak MC’s today. “I I myself, blah, blah, blah, I me, blah, blah, buy my recol blah.” So if anyone has a thirst! underground Portland rap, bj ing a copy of Village Elll music will not satisfy, unll you’re an idiot.
