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Allison E. Rainey '96 says rock climbing "is the most absolutely demanding combination of mental and physical...
...Rainey began climbing her senior year in high school after a friend who climbed suggested she try it. By the time he quit soon after, she was already eagerly engrossed in learning more about the sport from other climbers...
DRAMA America may have no finer playwright than August Wilson, the two-time Pulitzer prizewinner whose cycle of plays depicting black life in the U.S. during each of the decades of the 20th century (including Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and The Piano Lesson) often stings with the power of a Tennessee Williams or a Eugene O'Neill. Though Wilson, unlike composer Davis, sticks to black subject matter, he too seeks to transcend racial limits in his themes. Referring to the late black painter-collagist Romare Bearden, Wilson says, "Bearden has said -- someone asked him about...
...Wilson] is one of the most entertaininglecturers in the field," says Joel M. Rainey '94."He is self-deprecating in a funny...
...Late Great Ladies of Blues and Jazz. With Sandra Reaves and the All Star Jazz Band. A musical tribute to Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Ethel Waters, Mahalia Jackson, Ma Rainey and Dinah Washington. Loeb Drama Center, 8 p.m. Call 547-8300 for more information...