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4 Clackamas Print Arts Culti Wednesday*. May 6-, 2009 Choir sings their way to Seattli Abigail Neet Arts & Culture Editor When flowers are bloom ing, the sky is beautifully blue and music is in the air, we be come fully aware that spring is here. The Chamber choir recent ly went on an excursion to George Fox Unniversity for the American Choral Directors Association. Twelve choirs in total participated, with choirs coming from both community colleges and universities. The ACDA gives students the opportunity to listen to choirs from universities they might want to attend. According to Lonnie Cline, the instructor for the chamber choir, “We did just fine.” Chamber choir' will also be going to Seattle in August. They will be singing for West Coast Estoniaii Days. Cline also instructs main stream vocal jazz ensemble class, which sings jazz music, jazz influenced pop, rock infu sion and has a rhythm section which includes bass, guitar, drums and a saxophone play er. Unlike the mainstream, chamber choir has only a pia no which is used for songs that require it. Both choirs require an au dition and work well for any music major or minor or any one who has a vested interest in choir. According to Cline, some one with a vested interest would be someone who is will ing to do the same as music Full time Choir Instructor, Lonnie Cline directs the choir class during rehearsals at the Niemeyer Center. They will be forming at the XXIX annual West Coast Estoian Days in Seattle during August. majors. “Learn music, shut up and put up,” Cline said. Chamber choir will sing to day, May 6, at 10:30 a.m. in the forum for International Day. Mainstream jazz ensemble is hpsting, two jazz nights in a row May 28 and 29. Cline added that local high schools were also being invited. If you think choir sounds busy as it is, imagine playing the French horn, piano,, gui tar, and the trumpet while be ing actively involved in choir. That is Nathan Pricer’s life. Pricer is also the student conductor for the mainstreafti choir class. He got his position when the former student conductor left and the position was vacant. “I volunteered myself,” Pricer added. The conductor position is a step in the right direction for his future goals. Pricer is transferring to George Fox Un niversity this fall and' is hop- ing to be a high school I choir director. “I like Nathan beca understands how to sh Not just physically, hi in and is mentally pre said LeaAnne DenBi part-time music instruc has had Pricer for thre now. Students say, ‘There is more to work for than just mom Brad Heinecke Clackamas Print Home Depot is the sixth largest employer in Oregon City, according to www.co.clackamas.or.us. The store is located on Washington St. three miles from the college. Mark Sunderland The Clackamas Print • There is always that job people say was the worst one they have ever worked and there is always»’ that job people loved - sometimes so much they make it into a ca reer. People migbt say a job is a job, but perhaps there is more to a jjob than just mak ing money. “Well my best job I think was a ranch hand in Vfyoming- I did for a summer. Just abso lutely loved everything. I got to drive tractors, ride horses, work cows, lived on a 25,000 acre ranch for three months. It was just awesome. Beauti ful/’ Joel Meyer, a Clackamas student, said. Working on a ranch can’t be easy, but it seems the hard work was worth all the effort for the experience and mem ories that have stayed with Meyer, a chance to see anoth er state and do new things. It There are folks ou isn’t everyday most folks get who haven’t worked a chance to fill three months jobs and Natasha Gra with an experience that shows current Clackamas s life through a different view. commented when askei The flipside of this tale is only job I’ve ever had that Meyer’s worst job was waitress at a retirement Working at Home Depot in Or and it wasn’t that bai egon City. “I mean I made the it had its moments wht most money, but it was pretty like I just don’t want soulless work,“ there anymfl Meyer replied. A job Meyer feels be both got “Well my that it was a soul bad all at less job that may Perhaps its best job I have been mon how one think was etarily satisfying. the work ihi a ranch It had lacked the set to doJ mental reassur beat attitud hand in ance of having a good o Wyoming done a good day’s on the job worth of work. It break the tt I did for may fit some peo Looking fol a sum ple, but not Mey things ¡1 mer. Just er. He admitted of doing in though, “I mean routine couh absolutely I liked the people as well. loved I work with. I It seems liked my bosses. most folks I every I liked a lot of the job that di thing. ” stuff I did, but the change whole kinda men or perhaps Joel Meyer, tality of a corpo just the th! Clackamas clashed will rate money center student. personality is kinda ... You know you wanna something, definitely come it’s apparen out on top. “ most people It seems that a job that money isn’t just them son)! something that new now one looks for in a job. While then, a better choice.^ some folks may be able to lenge, a different perspj work for just money; it’s ob on the world around tbi vious that Meyer wants more new face to see or the s from his work than just a good pleasure of doing a god flow of cash. is what people seem to I
