Arrival Time: I will be here throughout the afternoon, I recommend that you arrive between 4:30 and 5 to ensure that you have sufficient time to run through your entire debate, make corrections, and for us to do a simple rehearsal of the night's events.
Dress Code: Gentlemen, please wear a dark suit or blazer and dress pants. Your shirt should be a collared button-down, and you should wear a bow or long tie. Ladies, please wear a dress or suit in a dark color (grey, navy blue, or black). If you are a researcher, I ask that you dress up nicely.
Treats: Please bring a tray of treats to share after the debate. These should comply with Greenhouse food rules. If you have any special food needs, please bring something that you can enjoy! Please leave these trays in the dining area.
I need two-three people to volunteer to fill and manage the punch bowl.
Plan of the Evening:
~5-5:30 Debate Practice and Review
~5:30-6:30 Rehearsal
6:45 Gather for prayer
7 walk to the back hallway
7:05 Three Loud Knocks at the door, Sergeant-at-Arms Announces: "Mr Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, your debaters." Procession into the hall.
7:10 Introduction Speech
7:15 Initial Count by student ushers. I will read the tally.
7:23 First Speaker for Prop.
7:30 First Speaker for the Op.
7:35 Second Speaker for the Prop.
7:40 Second Speaker for the Op.
7:45 Third Speaker for the Prop
7:50 Third Speaker for the Op.
7:55 Fourth Speaker for the Prop.
8:00 Fourth Speaker for the Op.
8:05 Open Floor Debate
8:15 Fifth Speaker for the Prop.
8:20 Fifth Speaker for the Op.
8:25 Sixth Speaker for the Prop.
8:30 Sixth Speaker for the Op.
8:35 Seventh Speaker for the Prop.
8:40 Seventh Speaker for the Op.
8:45 Dismissal to the Dining Hall; Reminder of the rules of voting; student ushers retire to the voting positions to take a tally.
Announcement of the winner.
Friday, May 12, 2017
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Week 28: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Please listen to: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs by Henryk Gorecki
The 20th century was one of the darkest periods in human history. Henryk Gorecki, a polish composer, experienced much of the worst that the century had to offer. In 1992 a recording of his third symphony was released which became one of the most important recordings of contemporary classical music to ever be released. This term we have discussed the many wars, coups, and other tragedies that marked the last half of the 20th century. Please take this time to reflect, read through the symphony's texts, and listen.
If at all possible, please listen to this piece in one sitting (ideally in the dark, with headphones on!)
First Movement:
My son, my chosen and beloved
Share your wounds with your mother
And because, dear son, I have always carried you in my heart,
And always served you faithfully
Speak to your mother, to make her happy,
Although you are already leaving me, my cherished hope.
Lamentation of the Holy Cross Monastery from the "Lysagóra Songs" collection. Second half of the 15th century
Second Movement:
No, Mother, do not weep,
Most chaste Queen of Heaven
Support me always.
"Zdrowas Mario." *
Prayer inscribed on wall 3 of cell no. 3 in the basement of "the Palace," the Gestapo's headquarters in Zadopane; beneath is the signature of Helena Wanda Blazusiakówna, and the words "18 years old, imprisoned since 26 September 1944."
* "Zdrowas Mario" (Ave Maria)—the opening of the Polish prayer to the Holy Mother
Third Movement:
Where has he gone
My dearest son?
Perhaps during the uprising
The cruel enemy killed him
Ah, you bad people
In the name of God, the most Holy,
Tell me, why did you kill
My son?
Never again
Will I have his support
Even if I cry
My old eyes out
Were my bitter tears
to create another River Oder
They would not restore to life
My son
He lies in his grave
and I know not where
Though I keep asking people
Everywhere
Perhaps the poor child
Lies in a rough ditch
and instead he could have been
lying in his warm bed
Oh, sing for him
God's little song-birds
Since his mother
Cannot find him
And you, God's little flowers
May you blossom all around
So that my son
May sleep happily
Folk song in the dialect of the Opole region of Poland
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