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SANTA ANA COLLEGE el Don/eldonnews.org • MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2017
MAGICAL NIGHT OF MUSIC
SAC professors premiere choral and orchestral
works at sold-out Spring Spectacular
BRAVO / SCC Performing Arts Department Chair Binh Vu conducted
this year’s Spring Spectacular. / Laura O. Garcia / el Don
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Composer Brian Kehlenbach
made classical music relevant for
newcomers by debuting a difficult,
upbeat and modern piece, Beside
the Golden Door, at the sold-out
Spring Spectacular Concert in
Phillips Hall March 25.
Conductor Binh Vu created and
conducted the show that night
and said the main reason classical
music has been declining the last
two decades is that musicians do
not have enough new music.
Kehlenbach’s original piece was
inspired by the poem engraved at
the foot of the Statue of Liberty.
The 35-member Santiago Canyon
College Community Orchestra
began the show by performing
two complicated pieces. They
were accompanied by singer
Bonita Nahoum Jaros, a longtime
SAC professor and experienced
mezzo-soprano.
Piano and music history profes-
sor Jungwon Jin then sat at the
college’s 2-year-old Steinway to
perform a complicated piece.
Vietnamese-American singer and
recent Cal State Fullerton grad-
uate Tâm-Đan Belinda Gonzalez
performed a piece that was true to
her bicultural upbringing, singing a
popular Vietnamese song that had
been arranged into a classical work.
“Vietnamese is a language that
does not lend itself easily to sing-
ing classically,” Gonzalez said.
Thirty-seven choir members from
both colleges joined the orchestra
on stage after intermission and
performed three songs by compos-
er Franz Schubert.
“I’ve never really heard a city col-
lege sound so good,” said arranger
Thomas Zink. “It really was a plea-
sure to see the whole performance.”
—Nikki Nelsen
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cal film written and directed by James
Grey. It tells the true story of British
explorer Percival Fawcett, played by
Charlie Hunnam, who mysteriously
vanished in 1925 while searching for
an elusive technologically advanced
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his aide-de-camp Henry Costin, played
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Tom Holland and Sienna Miller. This best-selling book turned TV
show is gaining a big audience. It
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Witherspoon) and Celeste (Nicole
Kidman) who struggle with mother-
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story continuously shifts from the time
of the murder to present, leading up to
the death of one of the characters. The
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est single “The Heart Part 4,” rapper
Kendrick Lamar is leading many to
speculate the release of a possible
fourth album this month. The new
single is the fourth installment in “The
Heart” series and is a shot-loaded track
where he seems to be dissing rappers
Big Sean and Drake. At the end of the
track, listeners are told to prepare for
April 7. Lamar’s last album was To Pimp
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Nintendo game set to release for
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game is filled with new courses like
Urchin Underpass and returning cours-
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ing you to race as any original character
on any track with up to eight players.
Players can choose the new Smart
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when in TV mode.
Amazon Studios
—Laura O. Garcia
Warner Bros.
—Mary Nguyen
Kendrick Lamar
— Jason Martinez
Nintendo
—Noemi Mosqueda