Joined Voices Brings Together The Camas High School Choir With Indie Acts Sama Dams and Adam Singley
b'It\\u2019s 7:05 a.m. on a Friday morning, but the students getting ready for choir practice inside the Camas High School theater building are wide awake.
Maybe it\\u2019s because instead of practicing the same old choir tunes by long dead composers, they\\u2019re rehearsing a series of new compositions written for the choir by four composers from around the globe, including local indie rockers Sama Dams and Alan Singley. The 150-student strong choir will join with the two bands on April 18 for a concert called \\u201cJoined Voices\\u201d at the First Congregation Church in downtown Portland
\\u201cThe rationale,\\u201d says choir director Ethan Chessin, \\u201cwas in English class you study Hamlet, but you also learn to write essays. Why is it that in music class we just perform works that have already been composed \\u2013 we just study the master works? Why don\\u2019t we give the students the tools to write their own music?\\u201d
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