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...shirtless Stein Rafto, running what McCurdy called the best race of his career, placed third at 27:19, and an equally thin-clad Jeff Campbell placed fourth...
...senior all-American Paul Heck led all runners, followed by the Quakers' Fiore and Scholtz. Fitzimmons was the first Harvard runner to cross the wire, finishing fourth overall with a time of 25:17. Campbell clocked a 25:20 to finish fifth ahead of teammates Eichner, Moulton and Stein Rafto...
Particularly pleasing to McCurdy were the performances of Peter Fitzsimmons, captain Jeff Campbell, and Reid Eichner, who were the three harriers to show up by their lonesome at the three-mile point, and Stein Rafto, who McCurdy said "ran better than expected." Only the Achilles injury to preseason standout Ed Sheehan put a damper on things...
...Skates. The Mother of Us All is an opera, a piece of Americana composed by Virgil Thomson and set to Gertrude Stein's text about Suffragist Susan B. Anthony. Thomson's score is a bright crazy quilt of American folk tunes, gospel hymns, marches and sentimental ballads that evoke pungent memories of an earlier time. Stein's libretto is her customary trenchant blend of logic with nonsense, historical characters like Lillian Russell (sung by Karen Beck) with imaginary figures like the mobile angel (Ashley Putnam). Snippets of political speeches are intercut with Stein's excursions into...
Along with the non sequiturs, Stein does provide a theme-women's rights and changing relations between the sexes-that seems more pertinent today than in 1947, when the opera was written. Over the years, performances at colleges and a variety of theaters have kept it alive. But only with the Santa Fe Opera's Bicentennial salute did The Mother of Us All get an extravagant production in the tradition of vintage musicals...