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Saturday, April 23, 2016
East Oregonian
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Area concerts feature gospel choir, big band music
By TAMMY MALGESINI
East Oregonian
Area residents have
an opportunity to enjoy
top entertainment during
concerts presented by the
Northwest
Community
Gospel Choir and the Walla
Walla University Big Band.
In a rare eastern
Washington
appearance,
20 members of the Port-
land-based gospel choir will
perform Saturday, April 30
at 7 p.m. at the Power House
Theater, 111 N. Sixth St.,
Walla Walla.
The multicultural choir
with members of all ages
includes singers and musi-
cians from the Gospel Music
Workshop of America,
churches and other music
ministries in the Portland
metropolitan area. Since
1999, the choir has performed
an annual December concert
with the Grammy-nominated
Oregon Symphony.
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The Northwest Community Gospel Choir, under the
direction of Pilot Rock native Gary Hemenway, will
perform April 30 at the Power House Theater.
Directed by local educator Michael Agidius, the Walla
Walla University Big Band will present a May 1 concert
in the Milton-Freewater Community Building.
Whitman College jazz
professor Gary Hemenway
has directed the choir for
more than 15 years. Raised in
Pilot Rock, the multi-talented
Hemenway has also had
experience with soundtracks,
composing and arranging.
According to the Oregon
are $35 and are available at
www.phtww.com. For more
information, call 509-529-
6500.
Under the direction of
Michael Agidius, the Big
Band concert will perform
classic
and
contempo-
rary big band music. The
Symphony website, his work
has appeared in Nike and
Avia videos and he received
a Portland Advertising
Federation Rosie award for
Best Musical Composition.
Reserved seats for the
Northwest
Community
Gospel Choir performance
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MOVIE REVIEW
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LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
You can practically feel
the beating heart of the jungle
in Jon Favreau’s stunning
adaptation of “The Jungle
Book,” which is easily
the most visually dazzling
movie to hit theaters this
year. Like “Avatar” before
it, this CG and live action
interpretation of Rudyard
Kipling’s classic tale of the
boy raised by wolves feels
like a momentous occasion in
the technical advancements of
big budget cinema.
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waterfall to the terror of a
mudslide or stampeding
buffalo, Favreau and his
visual effects maestros have
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that truly look and feel real.
Even the animals’ ability
to communicate in English
seems as natural as their
breathing and emoting. They
have not been sanitized to be
cute or less threatening either.
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animals and, for the most
part, act like wild animals,
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makes their close interactions
with the human boy Mowgli
(newcomer Neel Sethi) even
more disarming. Eventually
your nerves calm and you
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In this image released by Disney, Mowgli, portrayed
by Neel Sethi, right, and Baloo the bear, voiced by Bill
Murray, appear in a scene from “The Jungle Book.”
submit to the magic of this
world.
The story follows the same
beats as Disney’s animated
feature from 1967, but
Favreau and his team made
sure to up the intensity a few
notches — the hyperrealism
of the animals necessitates
it. The tension created by the
fact that they all have claws
and teeth and instinct to
contend with is always there.
You’re already on edge
by the time the tiger Shere
Khan (Idris Elba, in a truly
stunning vocal performance
that’s both terrifying and
relatable) enters the picture.
He adamantly believes that
humans should not be living
among them and is prepared
to use whatever intimidation
sounds of Glenn Miller, Be
nny Goodman, Frank Sinat
ra, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitz-
gerald,
Michael
Bublé
and more will be featured
during the performance.
Agidius, who is the band
director in Milton-Freewater
schools, is excited to provide
entertainment to local audi-
ences.
The Sunday, May 1
concert is from 6:30-8:30
p.m. at the Milton-Free-
water Community Building,
109 N.E. Fifth St. The doors
will open at 6 p.m.
Tickets are $7 in advance
or $10 at the door. Included
with the ticket are beverages
and appetizers. Cash or
checks will be accepted for
advance tickets Monday
through Fridays from 8 a.m.
to noon or Monday through
Thursdays from 1-6 p.m. in
WWU Music Department
Room 104 at South College
Avenue and Fourth Street,
College Place, Washington.
For more information
about the Big Band concert,
contact 509-527-2563 or
music.wallawalla.edu.
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Contact
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Editor Tammy Malgesini at
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com or 541-564-4539
tactics are necessary to rid
their world of Mowgli.
This sends the young boy
on a journey to the human
village with the stoic panther
Bagheera (Ben Kingsley).
Anyone with the vaguest
memory of “The Jungle
Book” will remember the
characters the boy encounters
on the way — the snake Kaa
(Scarlett Johansson), the bear
Baloo (Bill Murray) and
the orangutan King Louie
(Christopher Walken).
Although it is somewhat
distracting to have such
famous voices overwhelming
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job — especially Murray,
who brings a much-needed
comedic lightness to the story
with his affably conniving
Baloo in the second act.
Sethi is energetic and
enthusiastic as Mowgli — an
adventurous kid who’s as
unfazed by a handful of bee
stings as he is a gargantuan
snake. But for all the attention
to detail, there’s an unnatural
modernity to the dialogue
he’s given that can be trying
at times. For the most part
he blends in as well as the
sole human among wild CG
animals could possibly be
expected to.
Much of the third act feels
more like a check list than
plot advancement, and the
emotional arc neither lives
up to its source material nor
the beauty of the visuals.
Still, it is one of the stronger
of Disney’s live-action
adaptations and executed with
such sincerity and technical
prowess and inspiring
ingenuity that it’s more
promising than anything
else — a true family-friendly
adventure that’s smart and
often thrilling.
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Brass Fire, a regional group, will perform jazz, blues,
funk and rock April 30 at Sweet Productions Restau-
rant and Bakery in Heppner.
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HEPPNER — A nine-piece horn band will perform
jazz, funk, blues, rock and swing during an all-ages show
in Heppner.
Brass Fire has been making the rounds in Eastern
Oregon since being founded in 2013 by Brad Rozema of
Hermiston. The band includes area music teachers and
other musicians. Their unique sound covers the songs of
Chicago, Earth, Wind & Fire, Tower of Power and more.
The free performance is Saturday, April 30 from 5-7
p.m. at Sweet Productions Restaurant & Bakery, 233 N.
Main St., Heppner. The doors open at 4:45 p.m. and dinner
service is available.
For more information, call Jodi Segraves at 541-626-
1440.
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MILTON-FREEWATER — An exhibition entitled
“Central Dreams” is featured in the grand opening of the
new Arts Portal Gallery in Milton-Freewater.
The exhibit, in partnership with Central Middle School
Art teacher Jenny Hegdal, features submissions by both her
students and adult artists. Students have created artwork
communicating their hopes and dreams for themselves,
their families and their community. Youths from the
community and beyond will be particularly interested in the
works of their peers.
The exhibition is part of a city-wide initiative called
“Talk Play Dream — Hablar Jugar Soñar” to create
bilingual family-friendly arts programming.
The gallery opens Saturday, April 30 at noon at 508 N.
Main St., Milton-Freewater. The grand opening reception
is from 2-4 p.m. and will feature ice cream sundaes and
family-friendly live music. Admission is free and all ages
are welcome.
Arts Portal Gallery is funded in part by the Milton-
Freewater Downtown Alliance, National Endowment
for the Arts, the Oregon Community Fund, the Collins
Foundation and public donations. It will be open
Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. April 30
through Dec. 18.
Managed by the Milton-Freewater Downtown
Alliance, it will feature stimulating art in an inclusive
setting by local artists from all backgrounds and points
of view. It seeks to provide opportunities for those with
limited access to the arts. A featured artist’s reception is
planned the second Saturday of each month.
For more information, contact artsportalgallery@
msn.com, 541-938-3727 or visit www.facebook.com/
artsportalgallery.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The future is coming sooner
than expected.
The sequel to Ridley Scott’s neo-noir dystopia “Blade
Runner,” is now set to hit theaters on Oct. 6, 2017 —
months ahead of its originally planned February 2018
release.
Alcon Entertainment announced the plans
Wednesday.
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principal photography this summer with “Sicario”
director Denis Villeneuve at the helm.
Harrison Ford will reprise his role as Rick Deckard
in the sequel, which takes place a few decades after the
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The sequel also stars Ryan Gosling, Robin Wright
and Dave Bautista.
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