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WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2014 V. 47, ISSUE 22
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‘Family Guy’ composer comes home by CHRIS MORROW copy editor
Ron Jones has been composing music for over 37 years, having worked on the title themes and backing scores for many of television’s most recognized programs in both live action and animation categories, including “ScoobyDoo,” “The Smurfs,” “The A-Team,” Disney’s “Duck Tales” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” But what Jones is probably most recognized for is the extravagant music of Seth MacFarlane’s “Family Guy.” Jones’ path to composing started at Clackamas Community College nearly 44 years ago. CCC will be hosting the Emmynominated composer as he leads the Clackamas wind ensemble, jazz band, string ensemble and choir in performing some of his best known musical cues and themes, Wednesday, May 28 at Neimeyer Center from noon to 4 pm. The Clackamas Print had a chance to speak with Jones via email to ask some questions. Photo Contributed by Ron Jones
Ron Jones, a CCC graduate, enjoys what he does for a living — composing soundtracks for various movies and television shows such as “Family Guy,” “Scooby-Doo” and “Star Trek: Next Generation.”
The Clackamas Print: When did you attend Clackamas Community College? Ron Jones: I started attending while still a junior over at West Linn High, in 1970. They had a special projects class, in which each student could work independently on something. I said, “I want to go to college and take music theory.” I was [in] over my head, and I didn’t do so well. … So my senior year I signed up again at CCC and nailed it. I got straight A’s from then on in all music course work. I started at
the University of Oregon the first semester of my freshman year, but I really felt I wasn’t getting the same quality of classes, so I came back and had a ball for a couple years. I composed and arranged for most all of the ensembles on campus. It was a great way to learn and gain experience. TCP: Do you have a favorite memory from your time here? Jones: LeRoy Anderson was the head of the music department when I was there. He was the best as a teacher, a mentor, a friend and someone who really cared. Plus, he taught us how to be professional. Judy Hilton was a big influence in the music department. I don’t think anyone in the world had a greater grasp of music theory, and had the insight and skill like she had. [She was] a fantastic teacher. I could write a book about all the great friends, the staff, all the teachers. I had a fantastic time. That is why I try to come back and share what I have experienced, and the vital lessons I have learned composing for film and TV all these years in Hollywood. I love sharing that with the students. TCP: What courses did you take and did you have a favorite? Jones: I took mostly music classes. Arrangement, jazz band as well as music theory were my main focus. I sort of sluffed the required subjects, which got me later. I had to load up my junior and senior years in four year university with all those requirements. [It was] sort of a backwards way to do it. see COMPOSER Page 2
Life Flight pilot lands on campus soccer field in response to nearby car accident by LIZ GOMES associate photo editor On Tuesday, May 27, a Life Flight helicopter based out of Aurora, Ore., landed in the CCC soccer fields on the southwest side of campus. It was dispatched in response to a serious two-car collision between South Greentree Drive and South Leland Road, which closed both north and southbound lanes of Oregon 213 early Tuesday afternoon.
After two in-flight paramedics rode to the scene of the crash in an emergency response vehicle, the helicopter pilot, Captain Christopher Boehm (pictured far right), waved over curious students to give them a closer look at the helicopter while he waited for the ambulance to arrive (pictured below). Both injured parties in the crash were transported to local hospitals, news reports said. Although neither suffered life-threatening injuries, Life Flight confirmed that one patient was flown in the helicopter.
Photos by Liz Gomes
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COMPOSER: Jones discusses work with Seth MacFarlane continued from PAGE 1 TCP: How did you end up working with Seth MacFarlane? Jones: I have been working with Seth about 20 years now. I had scored many of the most popular animated series, and had scored “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Seth grew up loving to get home from school to watch all these shows. He was a geek about every detail and extra smart. He saw my name on most of his favorite shows and liked my approach to the music. When he came to Hollywood, and was starting work at Hanna-Barbera (Productions, Inc.), he asked me to score his first shows, [and] I did. We became good friends and great collaborators. He animated the pilot of “Family Guy” at his kitchen table, [and] I scored that in one night. They dubbed
it the next day, [and] soon after that, Fox picked up the series. TCP: What’s your favorite thing about working with him? Jones: It is no accident that Seth is so successful. He simply is a genius, plus he has a kind and down-to-Earth way of dealing with people, really different than most of the egomaniacs here. I always feel he gets what I do, and he trusts me to create a great score. TCP: Are there any side projects you’re working on? Jones: I actually just quit working on “Family Guy” two months ago. Seth left the show a couple years ago to do features and has a major production deal not only for films, but TV series such as “Cosmos” that aired recently. With him not there, the producers in charge have really taken much
out that I enjoyed. … The role of music which had been so key to the show was now so reduced, I just felt like I didn’t want to spend any more time working like that. I’ve been freelance for 45 years, so I never know what’s up next really.
own studio. I’m heavily involved in the arts, not just music. I’ve so far composed over 40,000 compositions. I remember hearing one of my teachers at CCC say that no one would ever beat Johann Sebastian Bach in the number of compositions. I beat him by a wide amount, and I’m not done at all. I plan to only work on projects I personally care about and if it’s about creativity and making something world-class.
TCP: What are you doing right now? Jones: When you work on a TV series for a long time, like I’ve done on “Family Guy,” everyone thinks you are married to it. It takes about a year for people around Hollywood to get that you’re loose again, so I teach. I lead the Academy of Scoring Arts, an educational organization with groups all over the U.S. and in Toronto and growing all the time. … We’re actually thinking seriously about moving back home to the Northwest. I want to be my
TCP: You did the scoring for Disney’s “Duck Tales,” which always had an adult feel to it. What made you decide to approach the score that way? Jones: I decided early on to follow in the footsteps of the great film composers, such as John Williams, Bernard Herrman [and] Jerry Goldsmith. They always respected the audience, and their
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Jones will visit Niemeyer Center Wednesday, May 28 from noon until 4 p.m. There will be a Q&A following the performance. Visitors welcome.
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CORRECTION: In Issue 21, the team photo on page 7 mistakenly said the team huddled pregame. The caption should have been “the teams huddles after winning their game.”
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“I remember hearing one of my teachers at CCC say that no one would ever beat Johann Sebastian Bach in the number of compositions. I beat him by a wide amount, and I’m not done at all.”
Ron Jones has been working with Seth MacFarlane for almost 20 years. “He simply is a genius,” Jones said.
music showed the best in the art and craft of scoring. I never patronize the audience. When I scored all this Saturday morning animation for Hanna-Barbera, I visualized the kids, but treated them as being very smart. Most composers treated the kids like dummies and the music sounded that way; just stupid. The Disney animation guys wanted “Duck Tales” to be great. The first composers they hired treated the audience like they were idiots. They hired me because I did care and I would treat the show and the audience with the same high values as if this was a major feature film for an adult audience. I’ve done the same on “Family Guy.” Always write smart music for a smart, intelligent audience; that’s my goal.
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arts & CULTURE
WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2014
Share the sorbet love
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Shelfies: Art Center edition
by DENEÉ SHELTON photo editor
by ERIN CAREY news & culture editor
I love summer! It’s my favorite week of the year! All the relaxation, being outside and soaking up the rays; what could be a better way to beat the heat than to make a delicious and chilly treat? The strawberry lime sorbet recipe below comes from Pinterest, specifically kateshealthycupboard.com. Recipe: • 4 cups frozen strawberries • 1/3 cup lime juice • 1/2 cup water • 1/2 tbsp lime zest • 1/4 cup honey
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Here’s my twist on it! I’m not much of a rule follower; I like to blaze my own trail, so in this case I used the recipe as more of a guideline than an actual rule. Food is creative, why put limitations on it? When standing in the aisle to buy the frozen strawberries, I made my first change to the recipe; I bought raspberries instead, gasp! The second change came when the time came to measure things. I don’t own a measuring cup. They’re silly! Just throw some ingredients in and then taste it! If it doesn’t taste quite right, keep playing with it. Creating food is just that, c-r-e-a-t-i-v-e. Have fun with it. Since I didn’t have the measuring cup, I just dumped everything into the blender. The whole bag of raspberries came out to about 3 cups (there are measuring lines on my blender) but since the recipe called for 4 cups, I threw some frozen strawberries in to make up the difference. A sizable amount of lime juice and honey was squeezed in. (These can be added to taste. You like your ice cream sweeter? Add more honey. More tart? Add more lime juice.) Next was lime zest. Lime zest. What is that? Can you only get it from limes that are feeling zesty and sassy? Google told me that it is the shavings of the lime skin. Weird, but I put it in anyway. (It made my kitchen smell delicious!) Ready, set, blend! While blending, I was playing with the consistency. It was very thick and the blender was having a hard time mixing. I added water, but just a little bit at a time until the consistency was what I was looking for. A consistency similar to ice cream can be achieved by running the ingredients through an ice cream maker. Personally, I like my sorbet icier, so I tossed some ice in it and blended away. The final product was absolutely delicious! Perfectly tart and sweet at the same time and I could not put it down. Confession: I ate all of it. Every last bite. I highly recommend this treat! It’s easy, cold, and refreshing. All the perfect things for summer! Please note: Put your creative hat on! Try this guideline of a recipe and send us your feedback! We’d love to see the creativity our fellow students possess.
Top photo: Ingredients including frozen fruit, a lime, honey and lime juice. Middle photo: A very “zested” lime. Bottom photo: The blended ingredients, which you can adjust to how zesty or sweet you like your sorbet.
Have any cool recipes for summer? Tell us! Submit your recipes to aced@clackamas.edu!
Kelly White has the privilege of sitting in a room surrounded by books every day. White runs the Art Center’s library, based out of the office space of the Art Center itself. The cramped room is stuffed full of neatly organized bookcases, supporting every sort of reference books from modern design to the depths of art history. The library is only open to students currently enrolled in an art class, and they can sit just outside the office room to get the information they need. The Clackamas Print sat down with White to talk about the Art Center’s cache of anything a student needs to survive an art class. The Clackamas Print: What was the reason to create a separate library? Kelly White: Students in art history have to do reports, and there are specific texts that perhaps the library in Dye Learning Center doesn’t support. We also have sections in our library for design, painting, drawing, so the instructors use these texts for students with their projects, because they’re specific to what they’re teaching. TCP: Have any of the instructors donated books to the library? White: Several instructors donate. Often times they’ll use their professional development fund to purchase books to go in the library. TCP: What are the contents of the library? White: It’s broken down into subject matter, so we have photography, sculpture, drawing, painting, anatomy, jewelry, ceramics, [and] design. Then the largest section, which is over half the library, is for art history. TCP: Do students find it helpful? White: I think they do. I did when I took the art history class. TCP: Did you have any favorites from taking that class? White: The favorite is whatever research paper I have to write. I know that when students are looking for ideas, they can come in and look through “1,419 Copyright Free Illustrations” by Jim Harter. TCP: Are there any thoughts on expansion? White: There are none at this time. Really we’re bound by what space we have, and the majority of our space is consumed. TCP: Where’s the most exotic place you’ve picked up a book? White: I usually don’t buy books on my travels because I don’t want to add the weight to my suitcase, and I’m usually traveling very light. I just received a sketchbook from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Spain because Nora Brodnicki, our department chair, just went on sabbatical, and she took a trip to Spain. So she brought me a sketchbook back, and it’s one of the paintings that we had discussed in our art history class in winter term.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2014
Track teams leap into 3rd at NWAACC Championships
by BLAKE THOMASON sports editor Last week the Clackamas Cougars’ track season came to a close with the NWAACC Championships at Spokane Falls Community College, where both the men’s and women’s team finished third. It’s the 11th time in the past 10 years the men’s or women’s team finished in the top three in the league championships, and the
fifth time in the past three years. The usual stars for the Cougars shone at the championships. For the men, it was Seth Buck, Thomas Sutherland, Justin Cornejo, Dillon Hoecker and Zach Rial. For the women, it was Jordyn Searle, D’Nara Jones, Emma Hill and Elizabeth Venzon. Tiffany Richeson was one of the Cougars’ stars and looked good in the preliminaries, placing third in the 100-meter hurdles. However, she was disqualified in the finals after
falling while in first place. The men’s team had 16 top three finishers in 13 different events. Buck finished second in the decathlon, Sutherland finished second in the 100-meter dash and was on two first-place relay teams, Cornejo finished third in the 100and 200-meter dash as well as being on the first-place 4x100 relay team. Hoecker finished third in the 110- and 400-meter hurdles and also was on the first-place 4x100 relay team. Rial finished second
in the 200-meter dash and first in the 400-meter dash and ran with Sutherland on both first-place relay teams. The women’s teams had 11 top three finishers in 10 different events. Searle finished third in the triple jump and 100-meter dash and first in the long jump and ran on the second-place 4x100 relay team. Jones finished second in the 200-meter dash and ran on the second-place 4x100 relay team and the third-place 4x400 relay team.
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Tiffany Richeson of CCC, left, and Brittany Dugger of Spokane Falls Community College, right, race in the 100-meter hurdle qualifying heat last Monday, May 19.
Hill finished second in the triple jump and also was on the secondplace 4x100 relay team. Venzon finished second in the high jump and first in the heptathlon as well as being on the third-place 4x400 relay team. Next season the men’s team will look to return several athletes from this year’s team since 26 are only freshman, including Cornejo. The women’s team has 31 freshman on this year’s team including Hill, Richeson, Searle and Venzon.