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EMBRACING DIVERSITY
Focus
Washington
Park Concert
this Sunday
M usic e n se m b le 3 Leg Torso will perform with the Portland Festival Sym p h o n y on
Sunday, Aug. 1 4 a t W ashington Park.
Eclectic world chamber music ensemble 3
Leg Torso will join the Portland Festival Sym
phony on Sunday, Aug. 14 at 6 p.m. for a free,
all-ages concert at the Washington Park Rose
Garden Amphitheatre.
Port land-based 3 Leg Torso will begin the
evening’s concert by performing its signature
blend of classical, tango, gypsy, Latin and jazz
music. This unusual synthesis is delivered with
equal parts creativity, intelligence, wit and joie
de vivre.
The group will then be joined by the local
symphony to play orchestrations of five of the
group’s original compositions.
For more inform ation, visit the web at
www.portlandfestivalsymphony.com.
Multiple Sclerosis Blessing in
Disguise for Richard Pryor
(AP) - Instead of packed arenas,
comedian Richard Pryor now tours
medical clinics. Instead of applause,
he gets eight checkups a month in
what his wife jokingly calls “the
round robin of doctors.”
Still, Jennifer Lee Pryor says
her hu sband’s crippling multiple
s c le r o s is is a b le s s in g th a t
stripped away his taste for the
drugs &nd alcohol she was con
vinced would have left him dead.
Today, h e’s ju st m onths shy o f
his 65th birthday.
Nearly two decades with the dis
ease has left Pryor in a wheelchair
and out of the public eye, long after
his expletive-laced standup act
spawned dozens of movies and
made the Peoria native box office
magic through much of the late
1970s and e a rly '80s.
Now, Pryor - who has also suf
fered three heart attacks - spends
most of his time at his home near
Encino, Calif., with two rescued
dogs and Jennifer, his fifth wife.
H e’s had many nicknam es, in
cluding “Soul Brother Number
O ne,” "the G odfather o f Soul,”
“the Hardest W orking Man in
Show B usiness," and “ Mr. Dyna
m ite.” No one can question that
Jam es Brown has earned these
monikers more than any other per
former.
Brown will funk it up to an ex
cited crowd on Tuesday, Aug. 23 at
6:30p.m. at the Les Schwab Amphi
theater in Bend.
Few other m usicians have been
so influential on the course o f
popular music than Brown, and
no other m usician puts on a more
exciting, exhilarating stage show.
T hrough the g o sp e l-im p a s
sioned fury of his vocals and the
complex polyrhythms of his beats.
Brown was a crucial midwife in two
revolutions in American black mu
sic. He was one o f the figures most
responsible for turning R&B into
soul and he was the figure most
responsible for turning soul music
into the funk of the late '60s and
early ’70s.
The concert is all ages, and tick
ets, ranging from $35 to $75, are
availableatwww.ticketmaster.com.
Nominated for Detroit City Council
Motown \ Reeves hopes to revamp downtowr
C om edian Richard Pryor e sc o rte d by his daughters Rain (left) and
Elizabeth in 1 9 9 8 at the K ennedy C enter in W ashington.
(AP Photo)
The couple divorced after a brief
marriage in the early 1980s but re
married in 2001.
Entertainers from Bob Newhart
to Chris Rock cite Pryor as one of
the most influential comedians ever.
James Brown Plays Bend
“As productive and brilliant as
he was, he was also self-destruc
tive," she said in a telephone inter
view. “He said God gave him MS to
slow him down. This disease saved
his life.”
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(AP)
artha . Reeves says
the Motown Sound was all about
love during the 1960s, when she
was the lead singer o f M artha
and the Vandellas and belting
out hits like “Dancing in the
S tr e e t” and “ H eat W a v e .”
Reeves, 64, felt the love T ues
day when D etroit voters nom i
nated her for the City Council.
T he to p 18 v o te - g e tte r s
earned slots on N ov em b er's
ballot, and she finished ninth
with 27,313 votes. Nine City
Council members will be elected
in the fall.
“People love me everywhere.
On an unofficial level. I’m an
am bassador and a civil servant
for Detroit. Now I’m going for
the official title,” Reeves said.
“I could’ve been in L.A. and
forgot about all this stuff. I could
sell my property, move to Las
Vegas and just play the slot
m achines. W hy should I be
bothered? Because I love D e
troit. We have an obligation to
BUSINESS d ire c to ry
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hold onto its history.”
Reeves still travels and per
form s and has her own record
label and production company.
She said she plans to go into the
studio later this week to record a
gospel CD.
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R e e v e s sa id
her top priority is
im proving police
protection for the
c ity ’s neighbor
hoods. She said
thugs have pre
vented her from
fixing up som e o f
the 18 old build
ings she has ac
q u ire d
sin c e
1999.
To spruce up the struggling
c ity ’s dow ntow n and boost tour
ism, she is proposing a shopping
m all, a n ig h tc lu b d ev o ted to
M otow n’s legendary sound, and
a landscape dotted with tributes
to the record label’s biggest stats.
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