Parent's Weekend, the cultural bits.
Sep. 25th, 2005 09:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mari4212So Mom and Dad showed up to Parent's Weekend to spoil me rotten, or as Dad said, focus on me for a bit. We spent a while just wandering around campus and hanging out together, but we also attended a concert and a play the University was putting on.
The concert was put on by the more formal music ensembles on campus, namely the University Choir, the Symphonic Orchestra, and Wind Ensemble. And all of them were just wow. These are the audition entrance groups, composed mainly of music majors. In other words, people who like music and are pretty darn good at it. Gorgeous stuff.
And the play was amazing. It's a relatively new one, called Anatomy of Gray. It's set at the end of the 1800's, in a small Indiana town. And it really focuses on two characters, a fifteen-year-old named Junie, and a doctor who is literally blown in named Dr. Gray. The theme of the play revolved around religion and medicine, and the influences each has on the other. It was well done, the acting was wonderful, and the plot worked without beating the theme over your head with a baseball bat. The best line pairing, however, came near the very end. Junie and a boy are leaving across the river, and Junie says, "Don't talk to me about problems. I'm a virgin and I have a baby!" The boy replies, "Didn't that happen to someone else once?" It made me laugh.
The concert was put on by the more formal music ensembles on campus, namely the University Choir, the Symphonic Orchestra, and Wind Ensemble. And all of them were just wow. These are the audition entrance groups, composed mainly of music majors. In other words, people who like music and are pretty darn good at it. Gorgeous stuff.
And the play was amazing. It's a relatively new one, called Anatomy of Gray. It's set at the end of the 1800's, in a small Indiana town. And it really focuses on two characters, a fifteen-year-old named Junie, and a doctor who is literally blown in named Dr. Gray. The theme of the play revolved around religion and medicine, and the influences each has on the other. It was well done, the acting was wonderful, and the plot worked without beating the theme over your head with a baseball bat. The best line pairing, however, came near the very end. Junie and a boy are leaving across the river, and Junie says, "Don't talk to me about problems. I'm a virgin and I have a baby!" The boy replies, "Didn't that happen to someone else once?" It made me laugh.
