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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