Portland Observer January 16, 1981 Page 6
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CARPENTERS HALL
2225 N Lombard Street
Mon.
7:00p.m.
Thurs.
9:30 a.m.
(Photo: Richard J. Brown)
The "J o y fu l Sounds" Choir, directed by
Margaret Carter, in concert.
Carter leads 'Joyful Sounds'
By Kathryn H all Bogle
When it’ s music - musicl music!
I t ’ s like ly to be the “ J o yfu l
Sounds” you hear. The choir with
the great sounds that do m elting
things to your very soul.
“ Joyful Sounds” always sings a-
capella as this choir comes o f the
Church o f Christ and no Church of
C hrist has instrum ental music in
church. They just sing joyfully with
all their hearts.
Joyful Sounds director Margaret
Carter, herself a lyric soprano, lifts
her chin characteristically,lifts her
arms, gives a twist o f her wrist and
with her slender fingers literally and
m agically strokes the air and
produces shadings o f notes from
tender whisperings to power-filled
crescendoes.
W ith music she is in her element.
This Margaret Carter.
And why not? She’ s been singing
in public since she was five years
old. Her father was preaching in a
little
Baptist
church
near
Shreveport, Louisiana. From the
pulpit he asked for volunteers from
his congregation to join church and
to sing. Margaret left her place in
the family pew and offered herself.
M argaret believed God wanted
her.
Father, surprised and happy,
quickly located an apple box fo r
Margaret to stand on and be seen.
M argaret gave fo rth w ith “ A
Charge to Keep I H ave.” It was
great.
She’ s been singing ever since.
Well, not quite ever since. There
was a period o f ten years when she
was juggling her fa m ily o f five
children, a fa u lty marriage, her
college education and a paying job.
There was hardly time to sing.
In her g irlhood days Margaret
sang at practically everyone o f her
school functions. She began piano
lessons at age 10. By the time she
was 15, she was pianist in a Baptist
church - the star pupil o f Ophelia
Calloway Fisher.
In high school, Margaret and her
eight brothers and sisters, all
musical, played and sang at every
chance.
M argaret was a member o f the
“ M t.
C alvary
Singers”
in
Shreveport, the first Black group to
sing on radio and TV in Shreveport.
Arkansas and Texas.
A fte r high school came an
enriched two years o f music
education at G ram bling College.
She loved it there but Margaret also
fell in love, left college and got
married. The music “ quiet” period
began then.
A move to Portland on impulse -
five children and no jo b . A lesser
woman may have been shattered.
M argaret was dismayed but un
daunted. Her philosophy is to pick
herself up. She says, feminist that
she is, “ Women are moving or they
are n o tl”
Carter gives gratitude and credit
for help in that cramped situation to
Portlander Martha Jordan. “ M ar
tha Jordan found a job fo r me in
1968. She found an opening for me
as a teacher aide at King School.
That was a beginning fo r me. My
firs t break. Thank you, M artha
Jordan.”
Carter went on to work and go to
school and to be the one parent to
her children. Between 1967 and 1978
Carter earned her degree in Elemen
tary Education at Portland Com
munity College, her Masters degree
from Oregon State University, plus
she completed some graduate classes
at Washington State.
C urrently, Margaret Carter is a
Career Counselor
at
PCC.
Behavorial Orientation is her strong
interest. She has offices at both the
Sylvania and Cascade Centers.
And she is singing again.
J o yfu l Sounds was form ed in
1978. The Reverend Frank Richard
son asked Carter to act as director
for the Piedmont Church o f Christ
at that time. (The Reverend William
Hunter, assistant minister at Pied
mont is Margaret C arter’ s brother)
Over at M allory Church o f Christ
they have a choir that is a part o f
"Jo yfu l Sounds.”
In Seattle, the Southside Church
o f C hrist and the M adison Park
Church o f Christ decided to place
themselves under the direction o f
Margaret Carter.
Carter now travels to Seattle twice
a m onth to rehearse the Seattle
group. Once a m onth the choirs
rehearse together in either city or
they may meet halfway for a singing
session. At present the augmented
choir, called the “ Pacific Northwest
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Typical member o f the augmen
ted choir is: Gloria Broom, a Seattle
soprano who joined the choir two
months ago through Kenneth M c
Coy, director o f the Seattle Choir.
Ms. Broom studied voice at Cornish
School o f Music.
There is C arolyn Felder, an
Alaskan native from M ettakatta,
who sings first alto. She comes from
a family o f musicians where all eight
children sing, and play at least one
instrum ent. Her husband, Joseph
Felder, sings bass with the group.
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George Baldwin, a tenor, started
with the Portland group. He hails
from Valdesta, Georgia. His wife,
Seona, is firs t soprano. There is
G lo ria Randolph, soprano, and
Fannie M orrison, alto and Jim ,
Fannie’ s husband, who sings tenor,
and Ann Taylor, a second soprano,
who just happens to be sister to
Margaret Carter.
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The group is proudly disciplined.
Carter works them hard. They prac
tice three hours ro u tin e ly. They
must practice correct breathing. She
makes them space their meals and
sing only after light meals; they
meditate; they record; and smoking
is frow ned upon. C a rte r’ s ear is
keen and she can hear a sour note at
its first utterance and w ill pull out
the singer for an on-the-spot solo to
correct the flaw . C h o ir members
privately call Carter “ Moses," but
they also believe in her talent and
the choir’ s achievement under her
direction, and they are truly fond of
her.
Carter adm its she is a task
mistress. “ I ’ m a no compromise
director. I do believe in discipline,”
she says firmly.
The group toured San Francisco
and Milwaukie, Wisconsin last year.
On Saturday, January 31, this year,
the choir will sing in concert at PCC
Cascade Center from 7:30 to 9:00
p.m. You are invited!
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Bank presidents join PSU board
V .F .
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president,
American State Bank, and Michael
Danielson, president. The Oregon
Bank, have been appointed to the
P ortland State V n ive rsity Foun
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government
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NORTHEAST PORTLAND
MARANATHACHURCH
1222 N. E. Skidmore
Sat. 9:30 a m.
Crusaders,” numbers 52 members,
all devoted persons giving their
talents to a singing ministry.
Margaret Carter explains that the
group accepts no money for profit.
Says she, “ I t ’ s all ministry and it ’ s
all part o f doing the community ef
fort - things 1 believe in.” The choir
does accept donations, however, to
help pay expenses.
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