“The banality of everyday conversation”
A British husband and wife sit opposite one another in the parlor. The husband reads a newspaper. A nearby clock chimes approximately two dozen times. “There,” says the wife as she darns a stocking, “It’s nine o’ clock.” So begins Eugene Ionesco’s play, The Bald Soprano, soon to be performed by Grinnell’s Silly Do-Nothing Players. Ionesco described The Bald Soprano, his first dramatic work, as an “anti-play,” and today it is considered part of the canon of the “theater of the absurd.”
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Creating dialogue through music
“There were Jews marching side by side with Martin Luther King on the National Mall,” said Elena Rubin ‘07. “But we don’t have a strong community right now between Jewish and black groups on campus.” Rubin is the event organizer for Chalutzim, and has put together a concert with Concerned Black Students (CBS) to help foster a closer community as well as stimulate dialogue on Afro-Semetic issues.
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Sounds of Mozart this weekend
Two years ago, in response to the coalition for war created by President Bush, music department faculty at both Grinnell College and University of Iowa decided, “why not form a coalition and get together and play classical music,” said Eugene Gaub, Music. This group, The Iowa Chamber Music Coalition, is doing their third annual concert this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Sebring-Lewis Hall.
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