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‘95 Achieving The Dream
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Page 4 • The Bai tai ion
Aggidife
Tuesday • April
Committee seeks awareness with Flyiri Wesia
By Keryl Cryer
The Battalion
T he MSC Black Awareness Committee will present the play Flyin
West as performed by Houston’s Ensemble Theater in Rudder
Theater at 7 p.m. tonight.
Admission for the event, which the BAG is co-programming
with the Pan-Hellenic Council, will be $5 for students and $7 for
non-students.
Tina Harrison, the chair of the BAG, said
the play depicts the story of three African-
American women who try to escape the South
by moving west after the Civil War.
“They try to discover freedom in their own
lives, and get opportunities that America did
not have available to them as women and as
African-American women,” Harrison said.
The action takes place in a small, all
black town in Kansas where they struggle
against the efforts of speculators as well as
to change themselves
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The BAG started this academic year by assisting in Excellence;
ing Culture, Education, and Leadership (ExCEL), a program pr®:
directed at minorities in the incoming freshman class.
The BAG also brought the celebration of Kwanzaa to thei
campus at Christmas.
The holiday, which originally celebrated the First Harvest in
has recently gained more popularity within the African-AmericacD^'
munity itself.
“It’s a celebration of Christmas, but it’s one of the only,;* 7
the only, African-American holiday,' flCtai
rison said. J,
“It involves the gift of giving andii;*'
motes unity in the black community*
reliance in the black community, anc I, 0
"Every person, no matter what
color they are ... should be able
to identify with the play"
— Tina Harrison ty,” Harrison said.
one of its main goals is to promotec,r| p r0
ship and leadership within our con®; 10.8
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Chair OJ TLaCK Awareness Committee the Harambee Festival, which was 1
Flyin’ West is the last of several programs sponsored by the BAG
this year that attempts to promote the goal of an organization.
“Our programs, our goals are to promote awareness of African-
American culture on the Texas A&M campus,” Harrison said. “We
bring issues and programs that we believe to be relevant or in
dicative to African-Americans as well as the campus. Our pro
gramming is for the whole school.”
festival in February, and co-programme;
showing of Fresh with the MSC Film Society.
Harrison said Flyin’ West will appeal to a wide audience.
“I think that every person, no matter what color they a
matter what their sex is, should be able to identify withthep
Harrison said. “Because it’s about independence, it’s aboutt
ering yourself, and it’s about discovering your limitations.Tl I six 1
a play about you being your own person and you acceptingp
for what they are and accepting yourself for what you are.”
Lennox's labor of love gives old songs new respe
By Erin Hill
The Battalion
Annie Lennox
Medusa
Arista Records
★ 1/2 (out of five)
Lots of artists would love to do a cover al
bum, but it’s all in the timing. Shawn Colv
in’s less-than-successful 1994 Cover Girl
came too early in her career, for example.
But Annie Lennox’s timing is just right.
With her successful Eurythmics career
behind her, and a solid solo album Diva un
der her belt, Lennox deserves to sing the
songs she wants to. Her cover album
Medusa is impressive, musical and mature.
Lennox forms a triumvirate of successful
women cover artists with Sinead O’Connor
and her cover album Am I Not Your Girl?
and Nanci Griffith, who released Other
Voices, Other Rooms. Nice club to be a
member of.
Lennox’s album selections are more var
ied in style and feel, however, than O’Con
nor’s and Griffith’s.
Lennox tries her hand at the tender folk
of Paul Simon with “Something So Right,”
and does it justice. But she can also take
music from ’80s punk band The Clash and
work wonders, as she does with “Train in
Vain,” written by Clash band members Mick
Jones and Joe Strummer.
The first track of the album, “No
More ‘I Love You’s’” has heavy, full vo
cals, while other tracks, like “Thin Line
between Love and Hate” are more spar
ing and reserved.
Her cover of Procul Harem’s “A
Whiter Shade of Pale” is perhaps the
sweetest track on the album, with its
charming marriage of Lennox’s strong
vocals and equally strong instrumenta
tion. Though she abandons the tradi
tional organ accompaniment found in
the original song, she replaces it with
some fancy keyboards that give the
song a more ’90s feel.
“This album contains a selection of
songs I have been drawn to for all
kinds of reasons,” Lennox said in a
press release. “They were not chosen
with any particular theme or concept
in mind — the method was more by in
stinct than design. The work under.-
taken was truly a labor of love for me
and I feel privileged to have been giv
en this opportunity.”
Lennox sounds sure of her interpretations
of these classics, and she certainly is singing
stuff written by the best of them, namely
Neil Young, A1 Green and Bob Marley.
With her cover of Marley’s “Waiting in
Vain,” Lennox performs no easy magic trick.
She takes his reggae song, changes the beat,
adds some lush vocals and pulls a groovy
pop tune out of her hat. No real hint of Mar-
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ley — this song is all hers.
In appreciation for the songwritini
others, she includes this note inside the!
bum jacket: “To the writers of these bea|
ful songs I offer my profound respects.'
it’s the writers and the listeners who«
respect — respect to a talented artist'
can make something good into somethi
even better.
Best Little Discussion on Campus
Award-winning author pays
first visit to A&M for lecture
lily
By Michael Landauer
The Badlalion
his personal experiences to give his writ
The author of The Best Little Whore
house in Texas will be speaking in the Uni
versity Center Galleries tonight at 7:30.
Larry L. King is the award-winning au
thor of six stage plays, including The
Night Hank Williams Died. He has also
written 11 books, hundreds of magazine
articles, two screenplays and many televi
sion documentaries.
King started writing poetry when he
was eight, and said he always draws on
ing a Texas flavor.
“I spent a lot of time hanging arouni
country music and beer joints and pla)
ing football,” he said. “And these thin?>
are identified in many people’s mindss
Texas.”
King said tonight’s talk will focus®
how to write plays and see them throuf-
to becoming stage productions and on ho*
he has used his experiences in his writing
“I say it’s running my life back throuf.
the memory machine and using it to
trate my story,” he said.
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