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Snap Out Of It

Sound Circle will perform
Snap Out of It: a concert about fear and imagination
May 9-11, at the Dairy Center for the Arts
Friday and Saturday 8:00 p.m.
Sunday 2:00 p.m.

“This will be a performance in which we attempt to speak about things that leave us speechless,” said Artistic Director Sue Coffee. “The actions of the government of this country, epitomized by George W. Bush’s characterization of himself as a ‘war president’ and use of the phrase ‘war on terror,’ have spoken to me as a catastrophic failure of imagination. This concert is our response to that failure. The ensemble takes the role of a contemporary Greek-style chorus in this performance, witnessing and commenting from a deeply personal perspective. It’s an artistic meditation on “yes, this is the time and place in which we live.”
A musical-theatrical setting of Diane diPrima’s Rant by local composer Gary Grundei will be one of the featured works: “the only war that matters is the war against the imagination/all other wars are subsumed in it.” Also on the program are Terry Schlenker’s settings of poetry by Lorca and David Whyte; Ernst Toch’s spoken-word classic, Geographical Fugue; songs of the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960’s; Joan Szymko’s setting of Virginia Woolf’s text, As A Woman; and improvised sequences.

Concert tickets are $20, general admission and $15, seniors and children. They can be purchased through the Community Box Office, www.thedairy.org, 303-440-7826, or at the Box Office in the Dairy lobby, Wed-Fri., 12:00-5:00 p.m. Advance purchase is recommended. For more information: 303-473-4525. The Dairy Center for the Arts is at 2590 Walnut St. in Boulder.

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Snap Out Of It


Sound Circle will perform Snap Out of It: a concert about fear and imagination May 9-11, at the Dairy Center for the Arts Friday and Saturday 8:00 p.m. Sunday 2:00 p.m.
“This will be a performance in which we attempt to speak about things that leave us speechless,” said Artistic Director Sue Coffee. “The actions of the government of this country, epitomized by George W. Bush’s characterization of himself as a ‘war president’ and use of the phrase ‘war on terror,’ have spoken to me as a catastrophic failure of imagination. This concert is our response to that failure. The ensemble takes the role of a contemporary Greek-style chorus in this performance, witnessing and commenting from a deeply personal perspective. It’s an artistic meditation on “yes, this is the time and place in which we live.” A musical-theatrical setting of Diane diPrima’s Rant by local composer Gary Grundei will be one of the featured works: “the only war that matters is the war against the imagination/all other wars are subsumed in it.” Also on the program are Terry Schlenker’s settings of poetry by Lorca and David Whyte; Ernst Toch’s spoken-word classic, Geographical Fugue; songs of the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960’s; Joan Szymko’s setting of Virginia Woolf’s text, As A Woman; and improvised sequences.
Concert tickets are $20, general admission and $15, seniors and children. They can be purchased through the Community Box Office, www.thedairy.org, 303-440-7826, or at the Box Office in the Dairy lobby, Wed-Fri., 12:00-5:00 p.m. Advance purchase is recommended. For more information: 303-473-4525. The Dairy Center for the Arts is at 2590 Walnut St. in Boulder.

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