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Page 4 Portland Observer March 1 . 1 ENTERTAINMENT HAPPENINGS SEE SPORTS O N G IA N T SCREEN T V JOE’S PLACE 1801 N.E. Alberta ENTERTAINMENT The Friendly Tavern Sarah Vaughan woman with the golden voice" s t k v iD Sarah s extraordinary virtuosity and range of appeal were shaped by a wide variety ot musical influences At age seven she began her formal musical I ' i UCai '° n *"SD,red bv,hcr mo' ^ . Ada, who sang in the Mount Zion Baptist urch in Newark, New Jersey, the town where Sarah was born. At home, her father Asbury, filled many hours with music. He loved playing the piano and records. Sarah joined her mother singing in the choir and started her musical education with piano and organ lessons: She continued her formal lessons during her term at East Side Music and Arts High School. . ’ »’ ,a™‘ly and ,riends persuaded Sarah to enter the amateur show at the Apollo Theatre in New York City. She won. The prizes were $10 00 cash and a week’s engagement. Ella Fitzgerald was the artist appearing at the theatre when Sarah performed during her winning week. Ella was one o f Sarah s early inspirations and it was Sarah's wish to one day record with Ella and do a TV special together Billy Eckst.ne was in the audience and recom mended Sarah to Earl “ Fatha” Hines. He was band vocalist with Earl at the time. Sarah was hired as singer and second pianist for the band. During her 35 years o f performing, and with the millions o f miles traveled audiences continue to shower her with tributes. In ’74 while performing in Maseru, the capitol city o f Lesotho in Africa, members o f her audience came from as tar away as 1,000 miles in chartered buses to watch her perform af terwards rewarding her with a 10-minute standing ovation. "A s far as I ’m concerned an appreciative audience is the highest form o f honor I can receive^Nothing ever quite matches the feeling I get inside when an audience really shows me that they care for me. I sure care for them,” she says. w „Y hh " S? e k " 7 ,Catehing plancs and scheduling rehearshals Sarah relaxes with her husband Waymon in their comfortable home in the Los Angeles area. Sarah s mother, Ada and her daughter Debbie share the fam ily’s home Sarah is an active woman, enjoying all the pleasures o f homemaker, cooking^ collecting recipes, shopping and chauffer.ng her husband to and from ap- andnh T eh ,Sh h S rea“ i 3 maS,er a* ‘ hC SCWing machinc’ she makcs ^ s e l f and her husband sport shirts and other creative designs. It you spot her one day in your airport arriving or departing from the city...you may notice a compact little black case in her hand...it’s a traveling sewing machine...no. a make-up case...it always goes on the road with her She s a totally dedicated human being in every role she attempts to fu lfill in her life...daughter, wife, mother, friend or artist...she only wants to bring £ « StoucahnhersVC ,n‘ ° HVC S a" ' h' ngS W" h and whos' ■ SAR4H VAUGHAN L W / H O N REED Q U A R T E T WITH N O RM AN LEYDEN ANU fMI O R E G O N S Y M P H O N Y POPS O R C H ESTR A IN A S P IC lA l U N E IIT PfBFOCfMANCE K3® ARTQ UAKE SUNDAY, M ARCH 9 -8 PM PORTLAND C IV IC AUDITORIUM PROOUCED IN PART BY A SPECIAL GRANT FROM CABLE C O M GENERAL IN C "Sarah sings so beautifully that it makes a listener to all sorts o f music think how infantile and unprofessional today’s crop o f pop and rock singers are in comparison to this ageless pro who dispenses all the vital ingredients needed to make a song come to life. Don t m l . . Sarah Vaughan at the Civic Auditorium . Patron tic k e t., o S ¡I ! L ir° U8h A R TQ U A K E I2 2 7 -2 W I. Reserved tic k e t., W ' W and * 7’ may be °b ta ln e d from the Oregon Sym phony r Port,and C,vlc A uditorium Box Office. M eier ft Frank. Frederick ft Nelson and S te ve n , ft Sons. OREGON S Y M P H O N Y A SSO C IA TE C O N D U C TO R N O R M A N LEYDEN, A PPEA R S W IT H S A R A H V A U G H A N Conductor, teacher, arranger, composer, performer - Norman Leyden is equally at home in the fields o f classical and popular music. His distinguished professional career has included work with orchestra, musical stage, band, recording, ballet, radio and television. Former musical director and arranger for Glenn Miller, Arthur Godfrey, Gordon MacRae, Mitch M iller and RCA Records, as well as many other top popular artists, Norman Leyden draws capacity crowds wherever he appears. After teaching five years at Columbia University, where he received his doctorate in education, he accepted the interim conductorship o f the Port land Youth Philharmonic Orchestra during the leave o f absence o f Jacob Av- shalomov in 1968. He stayed in Portland to take a position with Portland State University where he taught for five years. Leyden continues his career as a renowned pops concert conductor with the Oregon Symphony Orchestra in Portland where, since 1971-72, he has direc ted the highly successful Oregon Symphony Pops series, which has been con secutively sold out to season ticket holders since its inception. Leyden also conducts a pops series with the Seattle Symphony and makes regular guest appearances with such major ochestras as the Boston Pops, San Francisco Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Chicago’ s Grant Park Summer Orchestra and the Denver, Phoenix and Spokana Symphonies. M U N T E R /S K Y T R IO BENEFIT SC H O O L Portland jazz singer Pam Munter will be the featured vocalist with the Sky T rio at a benefit fo r the Oregon Graduate School o f Professional Psychology, to be held at the Jazz Quarry, 1111 S.W. Jefferson, on Wed nesday, A pril 2, from 8:00 P.M. to 1:00 A.M . Rick Meyers, KATU Special Projects Director, will emcee the event. Proceeds w ill go to the fledgling school, which opened in Portland last year. Tickets can be obtained by calling 227-1382, or by writing to Oregon Graduate School of Professional Psychology at 2433 N.W. Lovejoy, Por tland, Oregon 97210. GET THE ORIGINAL CURL “ M A C H IN E " BY O M A K A WELL-- It « not really a “ Machine" BUT. aa a DAILY APPLICATION to ACTIVATE YOUR COLD WAVE CURL TREATMENT. IT’S THE BEST ON THE MARKET. OMAKA CURL ACTIVATOR and MOISTURIZER “THE CHOICE OF THE NATION'S TOP BEAUTICIANS." 1RS includes child care Parents who pay a relative for babysitting their children under 15 while at work may now claim those payments fo r purposes o f the tederal Child Care Credit in most cases, according to Ralph B. Short, D istrict D ire cto r fo r the IRS in Oregon. A change in the law now allows payments to relatives to be eligible for the credit, whether or not the care is provided in the taxpayer’s home, as long as the payee is not the taxpayer’ s dependent or the tax payer’ s child under 19. This enables 'the taxpayer to take credit for send ing the children to their grand m other’ s house fo r babysitting while the parents are at work while such payments were not eligible before, Short said. The Child Care Credit reduces the taxpayer’ s tax by 20% o f the amount paid out in child care ser vices up to a maximum o f $400 for one child and $800 for two or more children. The amount o f payments subject to the credit are limited to the taxpayer’ s earned income during the year. Taxpayers are not required to itemize their deductions in order to claim the cre d it, advised Short. Ihose people who qualify for the credit must com plete 1RS Form 2441, however, and attach it to their federal income tax returns in order to receive the benefit for the credit. Additional inform ation may be obtained by asking for Publication 503, Child and Disabled Dependent Care. Both the publication and the forms are available free at any local 1RS office. • jM W i Tickets $9.00 $8.00 $7 00 on sale at Oregon Symphony Ticket Office, 1119 S.W Park Civic A uditorium Box Office. Meier & Frank The ticket place at Frederick & Nelson and Stevens ft Son JQ Z< tl A PERSONAL M O M E N T FOR TH O SE W H O CARE \ * -] I One note does not make . I song The same note repeated lover and over makes even less I of a melody. 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