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The Office of Institutional Advancement:
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Morrison Hall
Orange County Community College
115 South Street Middletown, NY 10940
publicity@sunyorange.edu
Contact:
Vinnie Cazzetta, VP, Institutional Advancement
Phone: (845) 341-4725 • Fax: (845) 341-4730SUNY Orange to hold Admissions Information Night
SUNY Orange’s Chris Parker releases Late in Lisbon to rave reviews
MIDDLETOWN – Interested in learning more about what SUNY Orange has to offer? The college will offer a general admissions information night on Monday, July 7th, 2003 at the College Commons at 115 South Street from 6:45 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Come and explore the many academic programs and opportunities available. You can also learn about tuition and other costs, financial aid, athletics and scholarships, admissions requirements and procedures, student life and social activities, and the many ways SUNY Orange is committed to the success of every student.
For more information about attending, please call admissions at (845) 341-4030.
MIDDLETOWN – SUNY Orange music professor and jazz performer Chris Parker is winning rave reviews with his recently released and internationally distributed third album, Late in Lisbon. “This album has something for everybody,” says Parker. “It has a lot of Latin and fusion on it as well as contemporary styles.”
Critics
agree. Javier Antonio Quiñones Ortiz of “All About Jazz”
says “Parker makes you pay attention to the piano. And you do listen,
and it’s fun.” Ben Ohmart, assistant editor of Music Dish Industry
e-Journal, calls Chris Parker “one of the greats of the touring jazz
scene.”
Parker is a pianist and a composer of both jazz and contemporary classical music, whose most recent work featured a duo for violin and piano in New York City earlier this month. He’s won awards for both music composition and for excellence in teaching.
Jazz, says Parker, is different from other music. “It’s fairly intellectual; it demands more from the listener.”
He recommends listeners interested in learning more about jazz to consider a compilation CD with different styles of jazz to find a style they like.
Parker, who wrote all 10 of the pieces on his latest album, has written for everything from a small ensemble to a full symphony orchestra. He’s appeared in jazz clubs, concert halls and on television and with other contemporary jazz greats like Randy Brecker, Bon Mintzer and Lyn Seaton.
All About Jazz: “Parker makes you pay attention to the piano.
And you do listen, and it’s fun.”
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/reviews/r0503_169.htm
Late in Lisbon: review on Music Dish Industry e-Journal: “Chris
Parker is one of the greats of the touring jazz scene.”
http://musicdish.com/mag/index.php3?id=7893
Late in Lisbon on OA2 Records
http://www.oa2records.com/oa2/artists/chris_parker.html
MIDDLETOWN – Orange County Community College's department of Continuing and Professional Education (CAPE) will offer a summer computer camp for children ages 13-17 to learn how to build personal web pages. The class will teach students how to use programs like Photoshop, Flash and Dreamweaver to incorporate images, sound and even video into basic pages on the Internet.
The class will be offered in Middletown from Monday, July 7 through Friday, July 11, and will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The class will be offered in Newburgh from Monday, July 14 through Friday, July 18, and will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The camp fee is $250.
The class will be taught by Andrew Leigey, co-owner of Toaster (www.toastermediainc.com), which is based in Manhattan and Los Angeles.
For more information, please contact Petra Wege-Beers at (845) 562-2454, or via e-mail at pwegebee@sunyorange.edu.
MIDDLETOWN – Stewart’s Shops has awarded a $1,000 grant
to Orange County Community College to assist in the restoration of “Sugar,”
a 10,000-year-old mastodon skeleton that is currently on display in the college’s
Bio-Tech building lobby at the Middletown campus.
According to Dr. Melody Festa, biology department chair, the funds will go
toward hiring a professional conservator to determine what will be required
to stabilize the skeleton, exhumed 30 years ago in the Orange County community
of Sugar Loaf.
Festa noted that the real success story rests in the students of the college’s
Agassiz Society, who spearheaded efforts in September 2002 to restore Sugar.
Since September, the Agassiz Society’s president and vice president,
Erin Bowen and Jada Howarth, along with the Mastodon Project Coordinator,
Helena Vanderveer, have been holding bake sales in the lobby of the BioTech
Building to raise money for the restoration project.
“Once the conservator’s report is complete,” Festa said, “we’ll
know what it’s going to cost to restore Sugar and what our next steps
will be.” The restoration of Sugar is part of the college’s overall
effort to assess and restore all of the Biology Department’s mammal and
bird specimens.