Student Actors, Musicians, and Artists Collaborate for Friday Night Arts
THE NA T IO N 'S OLDES T ON THE WEB: COU nt RY DAY SC HOOL www.pingry.org/page. NEWSPAPER cfm?p=388 VOLUME CXXXVI, NUMBER 3 The Pingry School, Martinsville, New Jersey DECEMBER 18, 2009 Michael Gates Gill Student Actors, Musicians, and Artists Provokes Thought Collaborate for Friday Night Arts Event gant lifestyle. By SARAH MUIRHEAD (V) By ANISHA MOHIN (V) But all of that changed Every year, Pingry holds one cold March day after On November 20, 2009, an assembly called the “Fi- a large English company various vocalists, musicians, nance Café” for which a bought out J. Walter Thomp- and actors collaborated in speaker is invited to come son. 53-year-old Gates Gill the annual event, Arts Night. share some thoughts about was promptly dismissed Before the evening’s perfor- finance or the economy. For to make way for someone mances commenced, dinner this year’s Café, which was younger. He didn’t cope and beverages were served held on Thursday, Decem- well with the job loss, say- in the Hostetter Arts Center ber 3, Michael Gates Gill, ing, “It was hard for me….It lobby. Performances were in author of The New York really hurt to be fired.” the Men’s Choral Room, and Times bestselling memoir Gates then attempted the Balladeers and Button- “How Starbucks Saved My to be a consultant, which downs kicked off the night, Life,” came to share his quickly failed. Yet, unfor- performing “Dirat-On,” a story with the students and tunately for Gates Gill, his French piece composed by faculty.
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