8 I MONDAY, OCT. 18, 2010
Exhibit brings light to art
By Allegra O'Neill
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
In response to the university's
lack of interest in visual arts,
some Penn State students have
taken matters into their own
hands.
The Borland Order is an exhib
it that expresses the negative
feelings of artists in the group
Penn State Exhibiting Artists.
The exhibit opened on Thursday
and is located in 125 Borland
The Borland Order refers to
the way things need to be done,
preserved and accounted for in
Borland Gallery, PSEA co
founder Jessica Rommelt said.
- If you ask a fine arts student
about where they have showed
work on or off campus they prob
ably won't' have a long list of
places," co-founder Anna Brewer
(junior-arts and architecture)
said. - This is why Penn State
Exhibiting Artists was formed, to
search out spaces and organize
Concert revives 400-year-old music
By Josh Bollinger
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
An orchestra brought a State
College audience as close as they
could get to hearing music the
way it was supposed to sound
when it was written 400 years ago.
Cleveland-based Baroque
orchestra Apollo's Fire played
Monteverdi's "Vespers of 1610" at
the Schwab Auditorium on Friday
night.
Instead of using modern
orchestral instruments, Apollo's
Fire used original and replicas of
instruments from the pieces' time
period.
For conductor Jeannette
Sorrell, using exclusively modern
instruments for the performance
was never an option. Using any
other instruments would sound
"completely different," she said.
Sorrell pointed out a large ver
sion of a lute in particular, calling
it - a cross between a lute and a
giraffe."
The way the orchestra's instru
ments were made and their tonal
range - - among other things
are different from modern instru
ments, she said.
Ben Cossitor (junior-music
education) said reverting back to
Baroque period instruments is an
impressive feat, because the
instruments had been changed
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shows for students to get their
work out of their studios and into
the public eye."
The exhibit has eleven partici
pating artists and a wide variety
of art including paintings, per
formance, sculpture and video.
"Each piece is a visual expres
sion of frustration frustration
about the restrictive art venues
for undergraduate fine arts stu
dents at Penn State," Brewer
said. "M artists we thrive on dia
logue about our work"
The Penn State Exhibiting
Artists is a Penn State visual arts
club that was started by students
for students interested in the
visual arts by giving them a way
to further their interest.
"Penn State Exhibiting Artists'
goal is to increase visibility of
Penn State Artists through public
exhibitions, many being group
exhibitions," Rommelt said.
Brewer expressed her con
cerns with the venue given to
them for the exhibit.
Chloe Elmer/Collegian
Representatives from Apollo's Fire Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 speak
before the performance in the Schwab Auditorium on Friday night.
over the years for various
improvements. In addition to the
different sound of the archaic
instruments, Sorrell said every
performance of "Vespers of 1610"
will be dramatically different
because Monteverdi didn't leave
behind a complete score of his
work or indicate much of the
dynamics or instrumentation.
- The performers and the con
ductor make an enormous
amount of decisions with how this
piece sounds," Sorrell said.
Cossitor described the mood of
the music as intimate, soft and
almost dozing at times. But when
the whole ensemble played
together, the music became over
whelmingly beautiful.
Monteverdi expert Marica
"The floor is distracting with
four different colors, acting as a
giant eye sore the minute you
walk into the space," Brewer said.
"The walls essentially can't be
touched or altered, whereas in
most galleries you are free to do
what you want as long as you
repair it."
Rommelt (senior-art)
expressed similar concerns when
it came to the lack of attention
paid to visual arts.
"We are tired of being a 'barely
there' population on the Penn
State campus," she said.
Rommelt said she is also frus
trated that students put so much
time and effort into their work and
the university isn't respecting
that when it comes to showing
that work off.
"So we had to approach this
exhibition as a statement against
the structure we are forced to be
a part of," she said.
To email reporter: aposols@psu.edu
Tacconisaid Monteverdi gave
voice to a new type of expression
in a bold, dramatic and mystical
manner. - 'Vespers of 1610" con
sidered revolutionary and the
first opera masterpiece by many
because it has elements in it that
were new for that time, she said,
adding that some of these are still
used in music today.
Tacconi said she remembers
when she bought "Vespers of
1610" as a sophomore in high
school and couldn't stop listening
to it.
"In the first notes something
really grabbed me," she said.
"Every time I hear this work I get
very emotional."
To e-mail reporter: tjbs267@psu.edu
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Members of the cast of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" re-enact a
kissing scene Friday night at The Pavilion Theatre.
Dedication, teaching
bring meaning to play
By Heather Panetta
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Audience members were sent
back to school Friday night at the
Pavilion Theatre though it
might not have been how they
remembered it.
Students in the Penn State
School of Theatre performed
"The Prime of Miss Jean
Brodie," which followed teacher
Jean Brodie and four girls in her
class: the Brodie Set. The per
formance takes place at Marcia
Blaine, a girl's school in
Edinburgh, Scotland, in the
19305.
The play begins in a convent
with a journalist interviewing a
nun named Sister Helena. who
wrote a book influenced by a
teacher Miss Jean Brodie.
The rest of the play occurs in a
series of flashbacks.
By the end of the play the audi
ence figures out that Sister
Helena was Sandy, one of the
Brodie Set.
Brodie plans to make her girls
the creme de la creme and the
play follows her questionable
teachings to the Brodie Set.
Brodie tells them about her past
romances, painting and Fascism
under Benito Mussolini.
The play deals with loyalty
dedication and teaching and
what can happen when those
things go too far.
It isn't until the end of the play
when the audience questions
Brodie's teaching when one of
her set, Mary, leaves for Spain to
join her brother who is fighting in
a civil war, and dies in a train
bombing.
Throughout the play. Brodie
said if people wanted to get rid of
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her they'd have to assassinate
her. For Brodie, her assassination
was losing her job as a teacher.
It isn't until Mary dies that
Sandy tells Mackay there is a pos
sibility Brodie encouraged Mary
to go Spain, and Brodie is dis
missed from the school.
Audience members said they
empathized with the play's com
plicated characters.
Sisters Malerie and Rachelle
Vaughn came to the show to fulfill
a requirement for their theatre
class.
Valerie Vaughn (junior-ele
mentary education) said she
understood how Brodie felt by the
end of the play
"I sympathized with her
because if you were in her shoes,
you'd feel the same way," she
said.
Michelle Vaughn (freshman
veterinary and biomedical sci
ence) said the play was really
good and the actors did Scottish
accents well.
She said her favorite character
was Mary, the outcast of the
Brodie Set, with her stutter and
shy demeanor.
It seemed like everyone didn't
like her. so I felt bad for her, - she
said.
Elizabeth Roczniak, from
Scranton, Pa.. came to the play to
see her daughter play Mary.
Roczniak said she was support
ive of Brodie and her teachings.
No matter what you say about
Jean Brodie. she did inspire her
students to do what they
thought. - she said. "I don't think
Sister Helena would have
become who she was without
that.-
To en - nil reporter: hapl36@psu.edu
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