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THE TWIQ. PAQE 7 Festival offers weekend packages May 20 - June 5 FestlvsJ's Thrss Weekend Pack^s Include Qwrs, Theater, Dance and Chamber Music Charleston, S.C. > Spoleto Festival, U.S.A., the arts ex travaganza celebrating Its seventh year In Charleston, S.C., is offering three weekend packages during the May 20- Junes Festival. With savings of more than 10 percent, the three packages include excellent tickets to opera, theater, dance and chamt»r music events. The package are a new ticket- buying opportunity offering convenience ' and savings to area residents with busy we^> day schedules and out-of- towners. Brochures describing the offerings are tteing mailed to everyone on the Spoleto mailing list. Others wishing to receive a free brochure should contact Spoleto Festival, U.S.A., P.O. Box 704, Charleston, S.C. 29402 (803) 722-2764. The brochure has been supported In part by and Includes listings of over thirty Charleston-area restaurants, hotels and shops. Highlights of the three weekend packages include two new opera productions, “Madam Butterfly” and “Antony and Cleopatra", The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Elisa Monte Dance Company. "Deed End Kids", a play by New York City's Mabou Mines Company, and Chamber Music Concerts under the direction of Scott Nickrenz and Paula Robison. Weekend Package No. 1 Includes "Madam Butterfly’’ at 8:00 p.m. May 20. Chamber Music at 11:00 a.m. May 21, Mabou Mines at 6:30 p.m. May 21 and Dance Theatre of Harlem at 1:00 p.m. May 22. Tickets for the package of four events are S60. Wtekend Package No. 2 offers Mabou Mines at 6:30 p.m. May 27; Chamber Music at 11:00 a.m. May 28, "Antony and Cleopatra” at 8:00 p.m. May 28, “Madam Butterfly” at It’S Coming. Air Guitar II — The Sequel— Mar.17, 7pm MEREDITH CAFETERIA 20 Band Maximum 1st come, 1st served ENTRY FEE: S2 per BaiHl Member ADMISSION: $1 8100 FIRST PRIZE •83 cents to Senior Class 17 cents to Mulflple Sclerosis Come to your nearest cafeteria for more details Advance sales betin February 28. 1:00 p.m. May 29, and Elisa Monte Dance Company at 9:00 p.m. May 29. Tickets for the five events are S70. Wtekend Package No. 3 includes The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at 8:00 p.m. June 3, "Antony and Cleopatra” at 1:00 p.m. June 4', 'The Unicom, the Gorgon and the Manticore” at 8:X p.m. June 4, and Chamber Music at 11:00 a.m. June 5. Tickets for the four-event package are $60. Film maker Ken Russell will make his American opera directional debut with Puccini’s “Madam Butterfly” . Well- known for his film successes, including "Women in Love”, "Tommy", and "Altered States,” Ken Russell staged an ac claimed production of “The Rake's Progress” In Italy last May. Russell plans to change the time of the action of “Mada^ Butterfly" from the early 1900's to shortly before World War II, while retaining the' locale of Nagasaki, Japan. Catherine i^y, the American soprano, will sing the title role, with Barry McCauley as her Pinkerton. Spoleto Festival founder and artistic dir^or Gian Carlo Menotti will direct Samuel Barber’s last opera “Antony and Cleopatra." Christian B^ee, Spoleto's music director, will conduct the opera. In the revised version originally staged by Menotti at Juilliard In 1975. Esther Hinds, who ap peared at the 197S, 1979, and 1962 Festivals in Charleston, will repeat her Juilliard Role of Cleopatra. Jeffrey Wells vtrill sing Antony. Menotti's “The Unicom, the Gorgon and the Manticore", a madrigal ballet, with new choreography by Salvatore Aiello, will be performed by the North. Carolina Dance Theater and the Westminster Choir, Joseph Flummerfelt, director. Mabou Mines, a New York theatre company, will present "Dead End Kids."' The play, by JoAnne Akalaltls, has been descrltied as "a nuclear comedy”. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra wrill perform under the baton of Stanlslaw SkrowaczewskI. The second and third performances will feature pianist Misha Dichter. Tickets for individual Festival events will be available in mid-March, inaciditiontothe events offered in the weekend packages, Spoleto Festival, U.S.A. has announced several other events for wfhich In dividual tickets will also be available in mid-March. In opera, the Festival will present the Anwlcan stage premiere of Pergolesi’s 1735 comic opera "II Fiaminio.” Other dance events In Spoleto '63’s weekend package Include the Dance Theatre of Harlem under the direction of Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook, the David Gordon-PIck Up Co., and the North Carolina Dance Theater, Soprano Ellsab^h Soder- strom will give a recital, and there will be a series of special conceits featuring Marvls Martin, Jazz artist Stephane Grappelli, and others. Outdoor events will Include an orchestral concert at Middleton Place and a lazz picnic. San Francisco’s Antenna Theatre will stage '“Artery,” and Margaret Rawlings will appear in the U.S. premiere of Jason Lindsey's monologue "Empress Eugenie,” The visual arts at Spoleto ’83 will include exhibitions of recent works by Louise Nevelson, Robert Courtrlght and Sandra Baker. The exhibitions will be shown throughout the Festival at the Gibbes Art Gallery, Major funding for Spoleto U.S.A. comes from the State of South Carolina, the City and County of Charleston and the National Endowment for the Arts. Important corporate contributors Include the Evening Post and The News and Courier Companies, Kiawah Island Company, DuPont, IBM, Seebrook Islarid Company, Cummins, Inc., General Dynamics, Amoco Chonicals, Exxon, Burger Klrig, McDonald's, Holiday Inn and local banks. Superlatives (Continued from Page 2) 1. Worst Dressed (sloppiest giri around) 2. Connie Branch Fellowship Awanj (for the people who linger In the cafeteria) 3. Blab ^for the biggest gossip) Laugh- The ACORN is accepting suitmissions for ttie SPRIKG ISSUE througii Marcli 14 - POETRY -SHORT STORIES -PHOTOGRAPHY -ART Drop Box - 1st Joyner by English offices 4. Bemie Cochran Along (class clown) 5. Who's Not These superlatives are hardly stereotypic; on the contrary, they are actually unique and very Individualistic. Had the author of this editorial researched the subject at hand, he may have enjoyed the superlatives as much as mo^ of us did. These superlatives gave most of us a chuckle; one that we hope class members will rememt>er very fondly. Being sd)le to laugh at oneself is an Important quality; I hope the editor possesses this. The editors of the scrapbook have worked hard to provide an eluent of humor for our senior scrapbook. These women have been attacked about the har shness of what was meant to be a small Joke. The seniors, we feel, have finally understood the true Intention of superlatives. The other members of the Meredith Community owe the editors, Marcia Vickers and Lisa Ford, this same courtesy. There aren't nr«ny things in life that are blatantly funny. Leam to laugh; leam to be thorough. Both can save you in the long run. Everyone enjoys having a laugh at themselves, and these superlatives enable people to ex^t their lndlvldu«dity. We hope the senior class Is behind this princlpleand will agree that we have not regressed to our high school days where a dear complexion and lots of clothes got you noticed. These superlatives are a celebration. We are celebrating an in dividually, a freshness, for we are soon to be released into a world where Individuality Is a means of survival. Lynne Tesh Stephanie Qeorgallls Editor's Note: The editorial which appeared in the 12-21-83 Issue of 7/ie Twig presented no comi^aint about the sailor superiatlves which have ben created by the editors of the Senior Scrapbook and In fact made no mention of these superiatlves. The subject of the editorial was the practice of su perlatives as it has existed at Meredith in past years. Davidson speaks at Meredith by Michelle Cherry Ms. Judith Davidson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation Lecturer, spoke at a dinner in her honor on Febnjary 16,1983. Presently sen/Ing as Legislative Director in the Washington, D.C., office of Senator Paul Sart>anes (Maryland), Ms. Davidson has also lived and worked in various parts of the worid. She has attended Swarthmore College, Oxford University, and Harvard [Continued on Page S)
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