JANUARY 14, 2022, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A13
Keizer man helps gather Salem Symphony hosting
nearly 400 lbs. of food first show in two years
Tyler Davidson, a Keizer resident, joined with other employees of NorthWest Handling
Systems of Albany to collect 387 pounds of food for Marion Polk Food Share in December.
Though it was meant to be delivered to the food collection barrels at The Miracle of
Christmas Lights in the Gubser neighborhood, there was too much, so Marion Polk Food
Share took delivery at the Keizer Community food.
“We wanted to do our part for our community,” said Davidson about the food donation.
Employees from NorthWest Handling Systems collected 387 pounds of food for Marion Polk
Food Share last month.
Submitted photo
Salem Symphonic Winds will pres-
ent its first live performance since the
beginning of the COVID pandemic.
The concert will be at the Elsinore
Theatre in Salem on Sunday, Jan. 23.
The 3 p.m. performance will be pre-
ceded by a pre-concert talk about the
music by artistic director John Skelton,
who will conduct the program, at 2:15
p.m., which will be followed by a per-
formance by the Willamette Valley
Woodwind Quintet.
The concert will include Spanish,
Cuban and Mexican music and feature
several soloists. Kevin Vaughn will be
featured in the US première of Scent,
a concerto for E-flat clarinet by Saül
Gómez Soler.
Larry Harrington is writing a
new arrangement of Babalú, featur-
ing Kurleen LaPlanche as the guest
vocalist.
The concert will conclude with
the lush melodies and rousing dance
rhythms of Danzón No. 2 by Mexican
composer Arturo Márquez.
Tickets are available at the Elsinore
Theatre, 170 High St. SE in Salem, or
online at ElsinoreTheatre.com. For
more information about the program
and COVID-19 requirements, visit
SalemSymphonicWinds.org or call 503
362-0485.
Out of concern for public safety,
everyone attending the concert will be
required to show ID and proof of vac-
cination or a verified negative COVID-
19 test taken within 48 hours of the
performance.
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Return to Hogwarts features trip down
memory lane for Harry Potter fans
BY T.J. REID
Though there are still plenty of
Harry Potter fans in Gen Z, I fear that
most of these kids will never appreciate
just how bonkers many of their millen-
nial predecessors went for the famous
wizarding series back in the day, myself
included. How many of these youths
can say that they went to the midnight
release of a book, or bought so much
Hufflepuff regalia over the years that
their bedroom looks like a giant bum-
blebee exploded? I’m guessing not
many. The Harry Potter craze of the
2000s was a uniquely insane era, and it
is an insanity that many of us have car-
ried with us well into adulthood. Harry
Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to
Hogwarts is a cheery, nostalgic look
back at this mad minute of magic,
although Muggles (that is, newcomers
to the series) might find this celebra-
tory documentary a bit too mystifying
to metabolize.
After a cheesy and uncomfort-
ably scripted introduction, Return to
Hogwarts gets the quaffle rolling with
an examination of the first two films in
the series, 2001’s Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone and 2002’s Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The
entire two-hour special follows this
general format, tackling two movies
per segment via cast discussions and
Review
behind-the-scenes clips, mostly rele-
gating the books to the background.
Considering the sheer number of thes-
pians that were involved with the eight
movie epic, the fact that they were able
to get so many famous names to return
is quite impressive, even if I inevitably
began to wonder who was there just
for the paycheck (certainly not Helena
Bonham Carter, who seemed to be hav-
ing a blast and was the undeniable life
of the party). The retrospective also
had the awkward job of distancing the
legacy of the Harry Potter films from
author J.K. Rowling after her recent
problematic (and well publicized) com-
ments, which I won’t get into here, and
in this it mostly succeeds by keeping
the focus mostly on the filmmakers.
For book purists this might be a bit of a
let down, but for fans of the movies (as
they are indeed very different beasts)
this focus is ideal.
As a Potterhead who enjoys both,
I did find myself wishing they would
have spent more time on each of the
movies, as 15 minutes or so really isn’t
enough time to fully explore the pro-
cess of bringing a single book to the
screen. At the same time, two hours
felt a bit long for this sort of thing, so
I ultimately would have preferred a
miniseries that devoted two one-hour
episodes to each film, or something
to that effect. My only other criticism
of Return to Hogwarts was its lack of a
master-of-ceremonies-like role, which
could have given the documentary a
bit more cohesion as it moved from
piece to piece. Daniel Radcliffe him-
self was probably the closest the retro-
spective had to this, as he sometimes
would ask fellow cast members inter-
view questions, but he was still far from
ubiquitous.
Overall
Harry
Potter
20th
Anniversary:
Return
to
Hogwarts is a magical trip down mem-
ory lane, but like all retrospectives of its
ilk, it is probably a trip that should only
be made by those intimately familiar
with the subject. Muggles might want
to stay away, but for everyone else, wel-
come home.
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary:
Return to Hogwarts is now available on
HBO Max.