Carnegie Mellon University: You don't have to be a king to be entertained like one.
In a tradition that stretches nearly 30 years, Carnegie Mellon is celebrating the end of the semester and the start of the holiday with a madrigal dinner.
The event is sponsored by the Office of Orientation, Student Affairs, Alumni Relations, Student Senate, Carnegie Mellon School of Music, Student Dormitory Council and CulinArt.
4 comments:
This sounds like a sweet event! But I can see why the event is not an annual thing; putting together an event like this is a lot of work. We all know how much work putting together a show can be, now imagine having to co-ordinate food, tables, seating, clean-up. Perhaps if the event is popular a group on campus can be put together specifically for this event (or it can become part of Activities Board). In theory the event sounds like it could be a lot of fun so I hope it is and that the event will continue beyond just once every few years in the future.
Now I know what the Madrigal Dinner is all about. Some of the singers in the Tender Land have been telling me that they have to sing in this concert that the university is having and they keep telling me the name but it meant nothing to me as I haven't heard anything about it anywhere. Now I know! I agree with Meg, it does sound like it will be interesting. If I didn't have rehearsal I'd love to attend. I also think that it could be an event that occurs yearly and I for one wouldn't mind working on an event like this as a Production assignment. Well, maybe I would prefer to see what the final result is like first. However it would be a good opportunity to do event management.
Things like this always sound like a ton of fun, and then disappoint when you get there. However, a different article said of the 2007 one, "Rangos Ballroom was transformed back to the Renaissance period" and that the waiters and performers were all costumed in period clothing. I'm pretty spoiled for events that attempt to be at all theatrical in nature, because we do theatre here better than any event I'll ever go to, I'm sure. I'm curious if the SoD is helping out with this at all. Did the costume designers get asked for input, are any actors acting, etc? The article doesn't say, but I'm going to be pretentious and snobby for a minute and say that I'm certain that anything we help out with will help make this awesome.
Still, if the food is good, all will be forgiven.
It's great to see CMU bringing back this event after a few years. It seems like a great event to tie together the campus. Bringing a together different areas of the school and getting everyone involved is a great way to present performances. I also find this to be a great and inventive way to put on a dinner performance. Very cool and definitely something to look into!
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