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Esperanza
Spalding draws
crowd to PSU
Esperanza Spalding, winner
Best New Artist at the 2011
Grammy Awards, drew a crowd
of nearly 300 jazz lovers, musi
cians and members of the news
media on Thursday, during a
master class at Portland State
University.
Spalding, a Portland native, en
rolled in PSU’s music program in
2000 at 16 years old after earning
her GED. She later earned a bach
elors degree from the prestigious
Berklee College of Music, and hold back on tough criticism of
became an instructor there in 2005 aspiring female musicians.
at the age of 20.
"To all the girls out there who
But she said her experience at are young and pretty, just know
PSU was more difficult and rig that when someone gives you
orous than at Berklee.
advice and tells you to do some
“It gave me the first taste of thing, double it. If you want to be
how hard music was. Before I heard, you have to work twice as
came to PSU, it was just fun. It much as you think you do.
wasn’t until I got here that I
"And for the male teachers
began to really understand. It out there, we can take it. So
made the lifestyle of a jazz musi dish it out. Tell the truth,” she
cian real to me,” she said.
said.
Students from PSU’s jazz mu
She made those comments
sic program p erfo rm ed for after The Opposite Sextet, an
S p alding, and S palding re all-women ensemble of PSU jazz
sponded with words of experi students, perform ed “Really
ence - especially of what it’s Very Small,” one of Spalding’s
like to be a woman in a male- own compositions.
dominated field, where critics
“I’m flattered. That one’s
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Esperanza
Spalding
tricky,” she said.
The group followed it with a
piece composed by their key
board player, Becca Schultz.
PSU’s Department of Music
o ffe rs a b a c h e lo r’s and a
m aster’s degree in jazz studies,
and will add another jazz pro
fessor next year.
“ H aving a stu d e n t like
Esperanza Spalding is a boon to
our program,” said PSU pro
fessor Darrell Grant, who in
structed Spalding in jazz impro
visation when she was a stu
dent there.
Spalding was in town as the
Artistic and Community Am
bassador for the Portland Jazz
Festival.
M OM M I
Jefferson Breaks 80 Year Tradition
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No representative on
Rose Festival Court
For the first time in the 80 year history of the
Rose Festival Court, Jefferson High School will
not be represented in the annual high school schol
arship program.
The school recently disqualified its lone repre
sentative from the princess selection process be
cause the student faced disciplinary action for an
incident at school, officials said.
It was a difficult decision to withdraw,” said
Jefferson Vice Principal Ricky Allen.
Jefferson had only one qualified girl vying as a
Rose Festival princess this year, a result blamed on
competing interests for students’ time, like sports,
other activities and academics. The school had
been part of the court every year since 1930.
Rose Festival officials were disappointed.
“It’s sad. We did not want to see it happen,”
Rose Festival spokesman Rich Jarvis said.
Jarvis said there are many qualified students,
“great young ladies,” at Jefferson and other schools,
who are choosing not to participate because they
are busy.
“We ask a lot of the girls, he said.
Joining Jefferson this year, Grant, Madison,
Marshall, St. Mary’s and Parkrose all failed to
generate the five princess candidates needed to
keep each school with an automatic placement on
the court in future years.Once this year’s Rose
Festival ends, a court committee will re-examine
the program’s rules for attracting students.