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T he P ortland O bserver • O ctober 26, 1994
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Symphony Appoints First Volunteer Coordinator
secret weapon. Other orchestras, as
well as a number of other local non­
profits, have said they have found
such a position essential in assisting
volunteers to attain maximum suc­
cess. This is certainly true in the area
of fund raising and financial contri­
butions from volunteerism, as well
as in enhancing the Symphony's im­
age and impact in the community
through its volunteer program,” add-
John Harris, who most recent­
ly coordinated eight volunteer
groups with close to 2,(MM) mem­
bers overall for the Cincinnati Art
Museum isjoining Symphony stafl
as its first Volunteer Coordinator.
The new position reflects the
Symphony’s growing commitment
to volunteerism, said President Don
Roth, "Volunteerism is a non-prof-
it’s, or arts organization’s not-so-
Advertise in
ed Roth.
Among H arris’ duties will
be serving as a liaison with the
S ym phony’s W om en’s A ssoci­
ation and A ssociates volunteer
groups; estab lish in g a core of
o ffice v o lu n te e rs; re c ru itin g
new groups of volunteers; and
providing staff support to the
C entennial C elebration S teer­
ing C om m ittee.
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The B o yz II M en quartet
“The last 2 1/2 years have been
a continuous joy ride," says Michael
McCary, his booming bass beaming
with joy. “W e’ve been welcomed all
over the world. W e've been honored
by our peers and fans. W e’ve been
successful. W e’ve straightened out
our business. The next thing for us to
do was our second album.
But how do you follow up an
album that produced more than sev­
en million sales worldwide, two
Grammys, three American Music
Awards, two soul Train Awards, two
NAACP Image Awards, two MTV
Awards, one World Music Award,
and a foundation of fans that made a
Christmas album go platinum after
only one single? Well, the safe route
would be to copy exactly what you
did the first time.
“It’s not very creative to dupli­
cate yourself,” Mike said. So, then, if
you don't go there where do you go,
Mike? “We went home. We went
back to Philadelphia. "
And of course they were greeted
with open arms. They had left home
more than two years before with a
dream, and returned with platinum
everywhere. Friends, family, neigh­
bors, - the outpouring of love was
phenomenal.
And distracting.
“As much as we love our family
and friends, Philadelphia turned out
to be the worst place for us to get any
work don," Mike lamented. So after
a couple of months of trying to get
started, the guys decided to go to the
other side of the country and start all
over again.
They went to Granny's House.
“That’s the name of this remote
studio secluded in the desert, Shawn
Stockman said. “Y ob do everything
there. You write there. You record
there. Eat. Sleep. Live, you can even
cook your own food, if you want to.
It was a great place for us to get
started, and get focused.”
Holing up together at Granny’s
House helped the group recapture
their family feeling. Soon they were
on a roll: laying sown ideas on tape,
recording riffs, writing, collaborat­
ing. Instead of dwelling on how big
they had gotten or how tired they
were, they thought about songs and
music. They thought about how they
recorded their first album. They went
back to “Yesterday.”
“We sang Yesterday’ in high
school,’ Mike recalls. “We sang all
different kinds of songs: classical,
operatic and a lot of jazz. Every­
thing- B rahm s, B eethoven and
Beatles."
But to actually record a John
Lennon/Paul McCartney classic (per­
haps their greatest song) required
one quality that Boyz II men would
need to record a great follow-up al­
bum: confidence.
“On this album, we tried to go
places that people didn't know Boyz
II men could go. Yesterday' will
surprise some people. But we knew
we could do it right,” Mike said.
Indeed the song shows how much the
young men have matured vocally.
Returning to “Yesterday’ also
reminded the guys of how they
learned music at the Creative & Per­
forming Arts High School of Phila­
delphia. it is a small school (Total
enrollment: 500 students). So you
know each other and learn from each
other, it's like a family. Their family
values inspired great music. As a
result, Boyz II Men have an album
that is...
Refreshing...
Mature...
Romantic...
The album II. the second collec-
tion of original material from Boys II
Men, provides a look at all the shades,
stages and rhythms of romance. Boyz
II Men update the best Motown tra­
ditions: The Temptations’ touch. The
S u p rem e’s sed u c tio n , Sm okey
Robinson’s songwriting and overall
top production.
Their first single, “I’ll Make
Love To you,” reunites them with
one of the finest songwriters operat­
ing in contemporary music today-
Babyface. Of course, the last time
these artists and this producer col­
laborated, they made history.
“End of the Road” (from the
"Bommerange” soundtrack co pro­
duced with LA Raid and Darryl
Simmons and “East Coast Family
Volume I” LP) held the No. I posi­
tion on the popular music charts for
13 weeks, longer than any single for
an entire generation - eclipsing Elvis
Presley’s most successful chart per­
formance 25 years before. “End of
the road" reached the top slot on
charts all over the world, earning the
distinction of truthfully being termed
an “instant classic.”
“It’s hard to explain what hap­
pened with 'E nd of the Road ,
Wanya confesses. “It’s a tasteful
song. Meaningful. Real. How do you
do that again?”
That was the challenge. But these
were the men to meet the task.
“Babyface is a worker. And
we’re workers. W e’ll keep working
until our voices burn out,' Wanya
continues. "Babyface has a method
that’s different from anyone else.
There's nothing easy about it. He
pushes.”
You can hear all of that effort,
but none of the strain on “I’ll Make
Love to You.” You hear another in­
stant classic, another song with a
permanent place across the radio dial.
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