T he P ortland O bserver • J anuary 18, 1095 P age A5 5ßortlan0 (Observer Oregon Ballet Theatre Receives Grant Oregon Ballet Theatre (OBT) has been awarded a $7,500 grant from The Sequent Foundation to help fund its education outreach programs during 1994-95. Spe cifically, the grant funds will be used to support Oregon Ballet T heatre’s C reative M ovement Outreach Program and Project FIND (“Find and Inspire New Dancers”). Oregon Ballet Theatre’s ed ucation outreach programs bring dance into the community, send ing teachers to schools, Head Start Centers, and other children’s fa cilities throughout the metropoli tan area. The programs focus on reaching children who are “at risk ,” econom ically disadvan taged, or otherwise challenged. The Creative Movement Out reach Program is currently under way at the YWCA Transitional School, the Providence Hospital Child C enter's PRAISE program, and the Head Start Centers oper ated by the Albina Ministerial Al liance. Project FIND is being con ducted this year at the Beach School in north Portland and Shav er Elementary School in outer southeast Portland. E stablished in 1989, The Sequent Foundation invests the corporate donations o f Sequent Computers Systems, in non-profit organizations, and also promotes active involvement o f Sequent employees through volunteer ac tiv itie s , c o m p a n y -sp o n so re d events, and individual donations. The Foundation has focused its investments on four specific areas education, social/human servic es, the arts, and the environment - targeting programs that serve chil dren and at-risk youth. A ccording to John Cone, President o f The Sequent Foun dation, “A major focus o f the Foun- dation’s community involvement is on helping to break the disrup tive life cycles o f disadvantaged young people. Through their pro grams, OBT teaches commitment and achievement. W e’re proud to be part o f their efforts.” In addition to the Creative Movement Outreach Program and Project FIND, Oregon Ballet The atre’s education outreach pro grams also include the "Magic o f Dance” student matinee series. The N utcracker special Needs Matinee, and in-school perfor mances and residencies. These programs reach approxim ately 20,000 ch i Idren each year through out the Pacific Northwest. PSU Faculty Receive Three Of Ten OAC Grants The Oregon Arts commission recently announced the recipients o f this year’s Individual Artist Fellow ship grants in music, theatre, dance and literature. Ten grants were awarded statewide. Portland State University music faculty Hamilton Cheifetz and Andrew Hill received two o f the three awards given in music. PSU English Professor Hen ry Carlile received one o f the five awards given in literature. Each in dividual artist fellowship grant con sists o f a $3,000 award to support the creative development o f the re cipient. C h e if e tz is a r tis t- in - r e s i- d en ce and a p ro fe sso r o f m usic at PSU . He is a c e llist o f in te rn a tio n al rep u te; w ell know n as a so lo ist and as a c h am b er m u si cian in N orth A m erica, E urope, A sia, and A u stralia. He has been d e sc rib e d as “ p o sse sse d o f an e x p ressiv e ly ricism rem in iscen t o f P ablo C a sa ls...c o m b in e d w ith th e p re c isio n o f to n e so c h a ra c te ristic o f Jan o s S ta rk e r” (Jon T uska, F anfare M agazine). His d eb u t re c o rd in g . Songs from the Andrew Hill C ello, rec e iv e d critic a l acc la im ; his second, Ju b ila tu m , w as re leased last sp ring. He is a m em Join Us In Celebrating QII je :J3ortIani> ©hseruer’s ber o f the in te rn a tio n a lly know F lorestan T rio, h e a d q u a rte re d at PSU . He has p e rfo rm e d w ith C h am b er M usic N orthw est for 13 seasons. Hill is an associate professor o f music at PSU. He is a legendary jazz pianist and composer who has “ei ther studied from, taught or played with just about all the important fig ures in Jazz during the last 30 years” (W illamette Week, Sept. 10, 1992). He played with Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holliday, and Roland Kirk, among others. His early recordings on Blue Note Records are legendary and recent ones have garnered new accolades. The New Grove Dictio nary o f Jazz calls H ill’s composi tions “well-proportioned melodies that often have shifting meters and tem pos” and his solos “dense and sensual, marked by skillfully devel oped melodic phrases o f irregular lengthand sudden changes o f tem po.” The man also is well known as a music historian, educator and phi lanthropist. Carlile is a professor o f English who has been on the faculty at PSU since 1967. He is a widely published, award-winning author whose work has appeared in prestigious publica- Music Millennium tions such as The Iowa Review, The A m erican P o etry R eview , The Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner and The New Yorker. His latest book o f poetry, Rain, was a finalist for the 1994 H azel H all O regon Book Award. He has won two Pushcart prizes, a 1988 Poetry Award from Crazyhorse magazine, and PEN Syn dicated Fiction awards in 1986 and 1983. His first book, The Rough- Hewn T able, received the 1971 Devins Memorial Award. He was a guest at the White House Salute to Poetry and American Poets in Wash ington DC in 1980, hosted by Presi dent and Mrs. Carter. He has re ceived an Ingram Merrill Fellowship in Poetry, a National Endowment for the Arts Creative W riting Fellow ship, and an NEA Discovery Grant in Creative Writing. He has taught at the University o f Iowa creative writ ing program. For more information call the music department at PSU at 725- 3011 or the department o f English at 725-3521. Cheifetz may be reached at 725-3185; Hill at 725-5463; and Carlile at 725-3587. '/ta fa m e n f • Ha/ò (n o o f a Jtùu/ tftfcceM&Ueb ^Jfto-^nìoìioun (aitfa V ¿ßoofa A ttH IV E R S A R V ■ 'J tu r u fa n (fo n A 32nd & E.Burnside 231-8926 1 :C 0-7:00fim V U a ft n d a y JO : 0 0 a w i-6 : OOfim 23rd & NW Johnson 248-0163 2808 • itf V 'H tiìia y ffacfovn (503) 288-5246 F lo o n e y ’s T h e a te r C om p an y P r e se n ts: Did You Know? by R obert N. T aylor that pizza is now the most pop ular food in America, according to the NPD group-market research firm based in Park Ridge, Illinois. After pizza, the most popular foods are a ham sandwich, hot dog, peanut but ter and jelly sandwich, steak and macaroni and cheese. ...that young black males between 12 and 24 are 14 times more likely to be murdered than members o f the gen eral population. 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