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sterama would be a great way to
use it.
The venue will show vintage
cartoons and movie trailers, and
popcorn will be for sale in the lob
by to help complete the drive-in
experience. “It’s just a matter
of being able to sit where you
want, eat popcorn in the lobby,”
Fennessv said.
This Saturday’s showing is the
second installment in the Mon
sterama series. Shurtz will contin
ue the exhibitions as long as they
remain successful. He plans to
»how “Santa Glaus Conquers the
Vlartians” in December.
The doors open at 7 p.m. Satur
day and the double feature begins
at 8 p.m. Admission is S3.
Contact the pulse reporter at
ielenschumacher@dailyemerald.com.
Hungary
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“especially more traditional, older
layers of music.”
Sunday’s performance is spon
sored by the Hungarian Cultural
Center in New York. It will include
music from the group known as
Band from Szaszcsavas (pro
nounced “SAS-chavash”), as well as
two dancers from a professional
Hungarian ensemble. The group has
toured in Europe for the past 10
years; this is their third tour of the
United States.
The six musicians are all related
to each other. The lead violin, bass
and viola players are brothers. The
group’s American manager, Kalman
Magyar, said the other members are
in-laws or other relatives. “They
have been together since they’ve
been alive,” Magyar said.
The music (violins, violas, bass vio
lin and kontra) and dance are lively
and traditionally performed for “life
cycle” celebrations and weddings.
“The texts of their songs really do say
a lot about life in their village,” anthro
pology and folklore Associate Profes
sor Carol Silverman said. “You have to
understand that Eastern rural life was
based around lifestyle celebrations
and all of these required music.”
The musicians are Roma, or “Gyp
sies.” They hail from a region where
the majority of inhabitants are Hun
garian. Only 20 percent are Roma.
“Roma are really the most perse
cuted people in Europe — what you
might call a persecuted minority.
Historically, the ways they could
make their living is very limited,”
Levy said. “One occupation they
chose is music, because that’s sort of
appreciated — an occupational
niche they could get into.”
Levy said the musicians have a
wide repertoire because they need
to appeal to a wide variety
of ethnic groups.
“Obviously, you can make a bet
ter living if you can play for as many
different ethnic groups as possible,”
he said.
The story behind the artists’
culture is vast and intricate — a sit
uation Levy calls “complex.” Tran
sylvania has technically been part of
Romania, not Hungary, since the end
of World War I. The result of such
shifts left the region populated with
many different cultural groups — Ro
manian, Saxon, Jewish and Romani.
“It’s a multiethnic part of the
world. This part has been, histori
cally, many things,” Silverman said.
Silverman specializes in Romani
culture and has worked with the
band before, when she organized a
New York panel on Romani poetry
and music in 2001.
Levy, Silverman and Magyar
agree music and dance are excellent
ways to learn about other cultures.
“Some people don’t think music
is related to political issues, but it
is,” Levy said. “Music is a great
door into understanding a culture.
Music isn’t just notes and
rhythms.”
Magyar says music and dance
are good channels of communica
tion because they lack the
language barriers that traditional
education often poses.
“I think this group is amazing,”
Silverman said. “It shows how East
ern European music is indebted to
the Roma. Behind every musical
thing, there’s always a history7 —
this group especially.”
Levy said people should also at
tend the performance simply for its
aesthetic value. “This (history)
may all be very interesting,” he
said, “but people should come be
cause the music and dance is so ex
citing.”
Magyar said the group has re
ceived a positive response in the
United States. He is optimistic not
only about Sunday’s performance,
but about the impact of sharing dif
ferent cultures in general.
“It’s wonderful to share any cul
ture with other people,” Magyar
said. “If every natipn would play
music together, as opposed to going
into war together, it would be a
much better world.”
Contact the pulse editor
at jacquelynlewis@dailyemerald.com.
Selling out
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So now I’m plugged in every Tues
day at 9 p.m., for good or had. Last
week’s season premiere (which I had
to shamelessly ask to watch at an un
derstanding friend’s house) was sore
ly disappointing, but this week’s
episode improved greatly when a
sexy new biology teacher seduced the
town using her kryptonite-altered
pheromones. As a result of all the,
ahem, excitement, Clark’s as-yet
undiseovered laser eyes kicked in and
started a fire in class. The cliched in
nuendo was glorious.
Following on the heels of “Small
ville,” The WB will launch a new
comic-related show on October 9
called “Birds of Prey.” Get this: Bat
man and Catwoman had a daughter
who has teamed up with the former
Batgirl (now a paraplegic computer
wiz) to fight the Joker’s former side
kick Harley Quinn, who doubles as
the protagonist’s psychiatrist.
It sounds eye-gougingly dumb.
But unlike “Smallville,” “Birds of
Prey” has credibility rooted in a DC
comic of the same name. With
Sarah Michelle Geller’s contract as
Buffy expiring at the end of the sea
son, the world could he ready for an
other super-powered heroine.
And Mia Sara of “Legend” fame
playing the villainous Quinn cer
tainly makes the show worth one
skeptical viewing.
Of course, it’ll have to wait until I
get my cable. No friend is that caring.
Contact the at masonwest@dailyemerald
.com His opinions do not necessarily
represent those of the Emerald.
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