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Show 7 THE FORUM Jan. 26. 2005 Tsunami Relief Nets $750 for Asia Victims I had one professor who donated $200, Popich said, referring to the students and faculty members that have donated so response. Corky Richard Staff Writer Through the combined efforts of Association of Students of Westminster All College has successfully raised over $750 in tsunami relief funds. Amazingly enough we actually collected a little over $370 Jayson Estrada, president of ASWQ said of the first night when Ken Jennings came to talk at Westminster. Estrada said ASWC hadnt been expect, ing such a high figure as they passed a box for the donations around the Gore Auditorium. We were expecting maybe $100, $150, so we doubled that amount. Both Estrada and Jennifer Popish of the Westminster Bookstore were clearly impressed by the enthusiastic, generous Staff Writer On Sunday, Jan. 23, Westminster College students, alike faculty and music-loveVieve in the Gore gathered Concert Hall for the Faculty Collage Concert, a classical music concert performed by seven faculty members from the Westminster Music rs far. College (ASWC) and the Westminster College Bookstore, Westminster Tessa R. Woolf of the funds that Westminster College collects are recorded on the Follett bookstore computer where the numbers are combined with those of other contributing college bookstores. Popich has information that between $80,000 and $100,000 were collected in the first four days alone. The final total will be sent as one big check to the American Red Cross. Popich voiced the concern of many Westminster students, and the larger community as well, when she described the situation in east Asia and the reasons for this fundraising effort. . ' A lot of people have lost their whole livelihood, you know. A lot of people near the coastal area fish for a living. They lost See their boats. Donations pg. 8 Department The concert was part of the Westminster College Concert Series, a classical series that has been in place at Westminster for several years, according to Karlyn Bond, Director and Chair of the Westminster Department of Music This is a professional series, so all of the performers are professionals, said Bond, who performed in the evenings Its a legitimate series in Salt Lake City that has a local following. Its part of what Salt Lake City has to offer concert culturally, and its right here on campus, right at your fingertips. The Faculty Collage Concert was the third in a series of six concerts held throughout the academic school year. ' The evening began with Sonata for Flute and Piano, composed by Francis Poulenc, with movements ranging from melancholy to jovial. Sally Humphreys led the music with her gleaming silver flute, while Vedrana Subotic elegantly played the polished black Steinway piano. According to the concert program, Humphreys is a member of the Utah Chamber Orchestra and plays regularly with the Utah Symphony, while teaching at Westminster. Subotic has taught piano at the University of Utah since 1996, and joined Westminster College in 2004 as a piano instructor. The second piece of the concert was Scherzo from Sonata Opus 2, No. 3, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, and performed by Hope Holder on the piano. Holder also performed Toccata, composed by Emma Lou Diemer. Holder, who has taught piano at Westminster for five years, played the pieces from memory, without a single sheet of music before her. The pieces were powerful and fascinating; at times throughout Toccata, Holder stuck her hand in the cage of the piano and gently held, raked and patted the strings with her fingers to create different sounds. Improvisations followed, performed by Bob Taylor on the trumpet, who joined Westminster in August 2004 as the director of Westminster Jazz Combo. It was easy to tell Taylor was having a good time when minutes after he stepped out on stage and began playing, he stopped and said, I just thought of that tune while I was standing out in the hall. Taylor went on to improvise two song requests from the audience: Somewhere Over The Rainbow, and the George Gershwin classic, Rhapsody and Blues. Following the trumpet improvisation was Musical Moment 1, composed by Sergei Rachmaninov, with Subotic again performing on the piano. Even in black stiletto heels, Subotic managed to gently work the pianos while her dangly blue earrings followed her every motion as she made her way up and down the piano keys. Next, the precise and fluid fingers of Bond, who first foot-pedal- s, See Concert pg. 8 |
