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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
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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.
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