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March 2007 Issue

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SADDLEBACK COLLEGE CHOIRS SING GERSHWIN, PORTER & BERLIN

May 25, 2007

February 24, 2007 :

Conductor Scott Farthing brings the talented Saddleback College Choirs together in an afternoon of timeless standards to raise funds for the Saddleback Choral Ensembles. The three choirs, Concert Choir, Community Chorale and Women’s Camerata, will fill the McKinney Theatre with the fabulous tunes of American composers George Gershwin, Irving Berlin and Cole Porter on Sunday afternoon, March 25, at 4 p.m. Come hear the choirs sing Gershwin’s Someone to Watch Over Me, Summertime, Stairway to Paradise and Clap Yo’ Hands, and Berlin’s I Love a Piano and God Bless America plus the roaring Anything Goes by Cole Porter. All three choirs will be performing with pianists Penny Foster and Linda Eldridge. Also, as a special treat, Dr. Farthing and Penny Foster will dazzle the audience with a two piano arrangement of Rhapsody in Blue.
Dr. Farthing is in his second year as a full-time faculty member at Saddleback College . He teaches Beginning and Intermediate Voice and Vocal Repertoire and Performance Procedures. He grew up in Washington , D.C. where he had the opportunity to immerse himself in music and culture. “I’ve never not been involved in music. I started piano studies when I was 2 ½. My brother and sister both were pianists and I could pick out, at that age, what they were playing. I was exposed to so much music. My mother found a teacher for me that specialized in children and I had my first performance when I was four. From then on, I was always involved in music, as a pianist and as a singer and then as a composer and a conductor,” Farthing said. He received his undergraduate degree at Friends University in Piano Performance, and a Masters of Music degree and Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory. As a composer he wrote such pieces as “A Jubilant Song”, “How Can I Keep From Singing” and “Come Travel with Me.” Through his publisher, Walton Music, his compositions are sold and performed. Farthing carries with him the philosophy that, “if you can talk and breathe, you can sing.”