ART S The Michigan Daily -Friday, April 6, 2001 -9 Haydn, Beethoven featured in Emerson Qartet concert 'U' dancers draw from life, spirit By Jeremy Sullivan For the Daily University Music Society closes its Cham- ber Arts Series tonight with the internationally Emerson String Quret Rackham Auditorium Tonight at 8p m. list~ David Finckel, acclaimed Emerson String Quartet. The quartet will perform tonight at Rack- ham Auditorium. This season represents the 25th anniversary of the quartet, who began performing together in 1976. Their name is a tribute to the American poet R'alph Waldo Emer- son. The quartet, which is comprised of violinists Eugene Drucker and Phillip Setzer, violist Lawrence Dutton and cel- is renowned for its viola- Album" and "Best Chamber Music perfor- mance." Their most recent acclaim has result- ed from a five-part concert series in the spring of 2000 where they performed the complete 15-quartet cycle of Shostakovich. Tonight's performance will include the works of Haydn, Beethoven, Kurttig and Bartok. The program's first piece, Haydn's "Quartet in g minor," is a readdition to Emer- son's repertoire, after playing it several years ago. The piece will be followed by Beethoven's "Quartet in F minor" a work that alternating first violinist Drucker categorizes as having "tremendous energy," despite its short length of 20 minutes. Emerson follows Beethoven with a contem- porary twelve-minute quartet titled "Microlu- den, Op 13." The amount of contrast in harmonic language contained within these twelve micro-loops, or short pieces, can be categorized as "modal bordering on tonal," according to Drucker. "It continues to fasci- nate audiences wherever we've played." The Bart6k piece, "Quartet No. 4," follows the Kurtig number, not only because they are both Hungarian composers, but also because the precision and tone of the piece compli- ments the Beethoven in its character, and pro- vides a contrast to the Kurtig. "Bartok is continuing the tradition of being able to By Chaity Atchison Daily Arts Writer Looking at the world around them, dance majors find Stdo Theater Tonight and tomorrow night at 8 p~m. the Jewish burial inspiration to bring their time as Uni- versity students to a close. "All the same ... except for Today" show- cases the choreog- raphy of Susan Kellerman, Melis- sa Mallinson, Elizabeth Riga, Kirsten Seacor and Janna Van Hoven. In a ritualistic piece, Susan Kellerman takes tradition of family tion of conventional approaches to chamber music. They often perform facing the audience w sith wide physical separation between mbers, and at other times with members in a close semicircle oblivious to the audience. These varying musical approaches, combined with their artistry have earned the group six Grammy Awards including "Best Classical Plytiristophor Cousino ~ly Arts Writer s..0mWS 01 UM The unconventional aesthetic of the Emerson String Quartet has earned them International acclaim. extract the maximum value from motivic and thematic material. In that sense he is directly related to Beethoven," said Drucker. This performance will wrap up a four-stop Midwest tour for the group following concerts in Urbana, IlL , Indianapolis, Ind. and West Lafayette, Ind. The future for the group includes a recording session for a two-CD set of Haydn's works, set for release in the fall, and next January, a three concert series of those works to celebrate the group's 25th anniversary. 'Broken Hearts' puts clever spin on 'boy meets boy' By Andy Taylor-Fabe Daily Arts Writer The witch is back - and this time she's- got commentary. As in dlirector Joe .Berlinger, who's previous foray came in the eerie, engaging docu- mentary "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills." Now, he's rel- egated to talking rade: B. about yet anoth- r~sth2:er group of BookC)~bumbling teens Shados DVD who have some Shalos DYDfucked up expe- Artisan riences in the backwoods. The sequel to the much over- hyped, over valued 1999 indie flick spins the tale of a group of Boston College kids who head to the Black Hills, of Maryland over curious lore ~~he disappearance of the three ~ns in the original. After a bizarre, sleepless night, th ey return back to town and find weird tattoos on each other's bodies. Sure enough, the mysteries abound askiesecrets of the witch unfold. ""Bfair Witch 2," aside from being a lame, stupid cash cow of a film, Grade: B The Broken Hearts Club DVD Artisan By looking at the title of this film alone, one would think that "The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Come- dy" was just another sorry or "gay"~ mo.vies is that it avoids the stereoty pes of both relationships and homosexual mannerisms. Needless to say, some of the characters border on the absurd in their behavior, but they do a good job of skirting the whole "Big Gay Al" universe. Timothy Oly phant and John Mahoney are two of the most con- vincing characters in the film. (This is especially impressive since Olyphant's most memorable role is the psychotic drug dealer in "Go" and Mahoney's is the ultimate gruff dad from various films.) The DVD contains fairly standard members digging and putting dirt otgthe grave. "Everything, All of the Timg, in Its Right Place" looks at performing that ritual with tension and happiness. The group section of the work is about acknowledging the spiritual presence in life and using it to find comfort. Her choreography, a blend of modern, jazz and hip-hop, will be performed to works by Music school student Rick Kowal. For Kellerman, her experience as a choreographer was enjoyable: "As much as you plan for it, some of the best things come out of the rehearsal time." "Spiritus" is a group work choreo- graphed by Kirsten Seacor about seeing a reflection in the mirror and being sur- prised at what you see. The dance explores the process of finding belief and confidence in yourself. Seacor finds her inspiration in her younger sister, Brittany. Her solo, "Song for Brittany" looks at how Seacor has felt about the idea that she was dancing for two, herself and someone who is not as fortunate as she is in her dance abili- ty. Seacor enjoys her ability to share her gift of performing and hopes that she is able to draw the audience to want to dance. Melissa Mallinson watched people, how they walk down the street, how they walked through doors and how they interacted with each other in these situations. Performed in silence, "Making Pjss- es" creates an imaginary space wl ere the audience is invited to question which way is in and which way is out. The space is sometimes private and sonie- times public. Mallinson saw a strange forgiveness in the way people intefact when they walk down the streets And bump into someone. Janna Van Hoven's "Souvenier d'une Jurre," looks back to look forward. $he looked at journals that she had written since the age of nine to create an ei'vi- ronment where her dancers would por- tray happiness, sadness and confront the fact that they didn't give permission for their story to be told. Van Hoven's idea is that words don't have to necessarily be eloquent in order to be powerful. "I like to create things without a speciflc intention and let the .process of move- ment come out and see how I was feel- ing and what it represents," said Van Hoven of her choreographic expenence. entry into an already flooded genre. The fact that it actually has the phrase "romantic comedy'' in the title would not inspire any further confidence. actually boasts a solid DVD as it features a second disc side with the Carter Burwell musical score and several songs from Godhead (if you like them, for that matter). A nice transfer of the film along with "The Secret of Esrever" (i.e. scary scary stuff), the DVD might be a good choice for fans of the origi- nal or the sequel (if there are any out there?) The Berlinger commentary is interesting if extraneous info about the making (again, why would you want to know this but...)? However, it is actually a th oroug hly original and refreshing film about the tri- als and tribu- lations of relationships. Oh, and it's about gay men who play soft- ball. Bet you didn't see that coming. The reason that the film rises above the other tripe released in the genres of either roman- tic come dies ft**t 4~sta~e ktwm tdt~s director com- mentary that isn't worth lis- tening to all the way through, and there are a few extra scenes with c ommentary as well. Some of these are interesting m e r e I y because they are longer or alternate ver- sions of scenes, but there is noth- ing really out- standing on the DVD. F AlLY ARTS HAS BEEN CH ECKING TH. E FCRUM.AN.D FOUND ThAT WE HAVE GOTTEN NO.RESPO.NS.E.. &; DHDN'T YOU UIKE THE FRAGGUE Rocic REEREC LET US KNOW AT ...WWW.MICH8GANDAILY.COMI.ORUM V a I I COME SEE THE GYMNASTS COMPETE FOR A CHANCE Tn en fV n 7f) Tl #6 STANFORD #7 MICHIGAN #18 LOUISIANA STATE NEY/ A MPS HITRE