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Taubman Biomedical Research Building. The night began with a VIP pre-show featuring a complimentary buffet, gift bags and a live performance by singer-songwriter Rella. The pre-show chatter consisted of attendees complimenting one another’s outfits and taking pictures for the ‘gram. Around 6:45 — the show was slated to begin at 7 — the speakers cut from Rella’s velvety vocals to the thumping, uncensored beats of hip hop’s current hits (think “Bad and Boujee,” “Caroline”). General admission audience members began filing in from all entrances. Though most appeared to be close friends and family of the EnspiRED team, the excitement throughout the event space was palpable. The show began at approximately 7:30. Titled “Urban Behavior,” it featured eight separate “scenes,” which functioned as mini fashion shows with their own individual sub- themes, ranging from “City Necessities” to “For Us, By Us.” The production kicked off with a dimming of the lights, and soon the audience was immersed in a dreamy string of Detroit-centered visuals created by University student Corey Johnson. Soon, models of every race and size were parading up and down the runway, eliciting boisterous cheers from the ever- involved crowd (think: “YES CANDACE! GET IT GIRL!” as the model in question strode about in her streetwear- inspired garb). The clothing was provided by a wide range of designers, from the Detroit based- youngsters at 51/50 to monster brands like Windsor. Styling the outfits entailed some occasional gender-bending: Girls strode as confidently in basketball shorts as their male counterparts did in pink pantsuits. Although every look was beautiful, what struck me most was the kinship between model and audience member. The entire night felt remarkably familial, especially given the fashion world’s frequent association with coldness. Urban Behavior was less about the clothes, and more about the sense of unity that the event fostered. Midway through the show, EnspiRED’s Community Service Chairs took to the runway to let everyone know what the purpose of the event really was. Everyone in the organization is involved in some form of service, the girls explained, and this year EnspiRED had come together to raise funds for Northwestern High School in Flint. They would even be holding an activity day at the school in February with the intent of preparing students for their futures. The show closed with homage to peaceful protest in Scene 8, “By Us, For Us.” Models paraded across the stage holding signs that boasted positive messages, such as “Save Our Earth,” “Yes Means Yes” and the timely “Feminism is Equality.” Each provoked a new spurt of cheers from even the very back row. I felt like I was re-experiencing the Ann Arbor Women’s March, which I had attended that afternoon, in an even more diverse, optimistic way. EnspiRED’s Urban Behavior was inclusive in the truest sense. For the first time since my arrival at U of M, I finally felt like I was experiencing genuine diversification. The organization presents our campus with a pocket of beauty seldom found in a whitewashed, pessimistic world. EnspiRED’s runway adds a dimension to diversity Student organization’s latest fashion show glamorous and TESS GARCIA Senior Arts Editor What struck me most was the kinship between model and audience member I couldn’t think of a better ending to a day of worldwide activism INTERESTED IN WRITING FOR ARTS? MASS MEETINGS — 7 P.M. ON 1/26 AND 1/30 @ 420 MAYNARD Any questions regarding the application process? Don’t hesitate to email us at anay@umich.edu or npzak@umich.edu Quartet for the end of time My parents are musicians. Not the cool, rock-band type, with national tours and color-flooded light shows and electric guitars. I know because when I was a kid and first learned they were musicians, this was the picture that I had in mind, and it was — sadly, I thought — incongruous with what I saw in day-to-day life. Instead of shaking hands with famous VIPs backstage at rock concerts, I spent many a night of my childhood sitting bored in the middle of a concert hall, doodling on programs while my parents took formal bows atop a minimalistic stage. When I was interested in music, I was interested in the songs on the radio and old Beatles CDs, the things I could dance to. Scarcely did it occur to me that this chamber music could ever truly impact the lives of random listeners, or affect people in the same way that I was affected by music that made more sense to me. That these pieces, from the inventive movements of contemporary compositions to the symphonies of long-dead composers, could move people profoundly, and tell stories that mattered. When I was ten years old, I traveled to Alabama to watch my mother and three of her colleagues perform Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time.” We arrived at the concert hall early and, having brought nothing else with me to do while the quartet rehearsed, I spent what felt like hours reading, re-reading, doodling all over and re-re-reading the program, which explained the context in which the piece was written. It was the story of the “Quartet for the End of Time” (or, untranslated, “Quatuor pour la fin du temps”) that has prompted me ever since then to allow music to touch me. That story made me recognize that music is a human experience: It is created by people who are trying to reach out to the world using the best of themselves, and, as the listener, I have the option of reaching back. Messiaen was a young composer living in France during World War II, and in 1940 he was imprisoned by the German army in a camp called Stalag VIII-A. It was in this prisoner-of-war camp that Messiaen made the acquaintance of clarinetist Henri Akoka, violinist Jean de Boulaire and cellist Étienne Pasquier, all of whom were fellow prisoners. It was also here that he composed the quartet, adding himself as the pianist. The piece is named, of course, for the end of the world, and each movement represents a different stage in the religious cleaving of humanity, the addled process of love, destruction and apocalyptic absolution. The camp guards allowed the musicians to perform this quartet for themselves and for the other prisoners using dilapidated instruments, and the piece’s premiere took place in January of 1941 at Stalag VIII-A, outside and in the rain. The idea that people could relate to music in this way astounded me. It resonated with me that a man could — and did — write an entire quartet, eight movements of translated emotion, imprisoned in a foreign country during one of the bloodiest wars of history. I tried to imagine the musicians playing on the battered instruments, the guards who allowed them to play and the prisoners of war who gathered and saw the piece first performed in the middle of the camp. The thought of all of these people watching this musical premiere in the middle of a war made me think that this event must have deeply impacted and revealed something about everyone who was involved in its manifestation. In the years since then, I have been struck many times over by people’s commitment to music and deep faith in it as a measure of humanity. This is true both of dedicated musicians, like my parents, and of people whose lives and careers have nothing to do with music at all. We all have songs that we go back to when life feels so oppressive that the word “hard” doesn’t even begin to cover it — songs that tune us into our own pain, songs that cleanse us. Only yesterday, in one of my English classes, I learned about how Rosa Parks, upon hearing of Dr. King’s assassination, reacted by holding her mother, crying and listening to Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come” over and over again. According to biographer Doug Brinkley, Parks said that Cooke’s voice “soothed” her and that his words were “like medicine to the soul.” This past weekend, my mother performed the quartet yet again, this time at Michigan State University. Over the phone, she told me about how people were crying — both the performers and members of the audience — as they reached the final movement, which is meant to represent the achievement of love and faith at the culmination of the end of time. When I think about it, this is truly one of the most important things that music does for people. It reveals our commitment to creativity and personhood, brings us together when there is nothing else to, and offers us love, strength and community, even in the face of the end of the world. LAURA DZUBAY Daily Arts Writer MUSIC NOTEBOOK It resonated with me that a man could — and did — write an entire quartet during one of the bloodiest wars of history 6 — Tuesday, January 24, 2017 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com STYLE REVIEW