JULY 17, 2015, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A5
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A: A trio of campers keeps the
beat in a rhythm circle.
B: Trinidy Lehnertz mans the
rainstick.
C: Kate Ronning and Sidney
Gates take part in a music-
themed fashion show.
D: A group of campers rehears-
es in preparation for a concert
planned Friday, July 17.
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C
Choir camp
sets record
The McNary Area Choir
Camp set attendance records
this week with nearly 200
students attending and fi lling
the hallowed halls of McNary
High School with music and
rhythm.
KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
Seth McMullen (front right) leads the members of Male Ensemble Northwest in a Mumford and
Sons song during a concert at McNary Tuesday, July 14.
All-male choir festival planned
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Times have changed, but
the idea of a young men in-
volved with choir still brings
to mind a range of stereotypes.
“Even today, in 2015, a
lot of young men have a lot
of pressures when it comes
to being involved in the arts,
and especially in singing. What
does it mean to be a male in a
choir versus a male on a foot-
ball fi eld?” said Justin Raffa,
a member of Male Ensemble
Northwest (MEN), a group of
regional performers and edu-
cators.
MEN, of which McNary
High School Choir Director
Jim Taylor is a member, are
planning an all-male choir fes-
tival Saturday, Oct. 17. MEN
performed in Keizer as part
of the McNary Area Choir
Camp earlier this week.
Some of the details are still
being hashed out, but the goal
is for high school, and possi-
bly middle school male choir
students, to get a taste of per-
forming outside the peer pres-
sures of school hallways.
“At the core of what MEN
is, as an ensemble, is encour-
aging men to sing. That’s why
we formed and what gives us
passion. When men talk to-
gether, they become friends.
When they sing together,
they become brothers,” said
Dr. Wallace Long, director of
choral activities Willamette
University. “This brotherhood
of men that sings together
teaches character and sensitiv-
ity and kindness. That’s what
this festival will be about.”
That brotherhood is what
drew former Salem-area resi-
dent Darren McCoy to the
group of 15 professional edu-
cator-singers.
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tors, it challenges you mind,
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“When I took my students to
one of the MEN workshops, I
knew I had to be in it.”
McCoy now leads the choir
at Oak Harbor High School in
Whidbey Island, Wash. South
Salem High School’s new
choir director Will McLean is
also a member of the MEN.
“The unique thing about
the ensemble is that for most
of us we are teachers fi rst and
then singers, but it does us
good to get nervous, and pre-
pare, and remember what it’s
like to make a mistake and
then recover,” Long said.
Students taking part in the
festival will get opportunities
to experience all of that in
October.
“They will get together and
form a large festival choir for
the day,” Raffa said. “They’ll
learn about the specifi c needs
for high tenors or low bases,
they’ll do vocal exercises and
we hope to get them to a
better understanding of how
their voices work. They’ll fi n-
ish the day with their own
performance.”
More information about
signing up for the festival will
be available through the Sa-
lem-Keizer School District’s
choral directors at the begin-
ning of the school year in Sep-
tember.
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