Author: Liam Otten

Gerald Early, Ph.D., the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in the department of English and director of the Center for the Humanities, both in Arts & Sciences, has received a $73,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Division of Education Programs. The grant will fund “The Impact of Jazz on American Life,” an NEH Faculty Humanities Workshop for K-12 teachers.

You’ve heard opera, and you’ve heard rock, but you’ve never heard opera rocked like the East Village Opera Company. On Friday, May 2, the East Village Opera Company will make its St. Louis debut as part of the Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series.

Courtesy PhotoBeginning May 2, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present “The Barbizon School and the Nature of Landscape,” an exhibition of close to 40 works by leading Barbizon figures and by later French and American artists who were influenced by the school.

The Symphony Orchestra and the Concert Choir will present the 2008 Chancellor’s Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 27. The program includes Ottorino Respighi’s “Fountains of Rome,” Alexander Borodin’s “Polovetsian Dances” and “Symphony No. 8 in G major” by Antonín Dvorák.

Courtesy photoDan ZanesIn the 1980s Dan Zanes was lead singer for the Indie garage-pop band the Del Fuegos. But in recent years Zanes has become the hottest thing to hit children’s music since “Frère Jaque,” releasing half-a-dozen critically acclaimed all-ages albums that reinvent American roots-rock. On Saturday, May 10, Dan Zanes & Friends present a pair of shows as part of Edison Theatre’s popular ovations! for young people series.

The Washington University Symphony Orchestra and the Washington University Concert Choir will present the 2008 Chancellor’s Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 27. Dan Presgrave, instrumental music coordinator, conducts the 70-plus-member Symphony Orchestra. John Stewart, director of vocal activities, conducts the 60-plus-member Concert Choir. The program include Ottorino Respighi’s Fountains of Rome, Alexander Borodin’s “Polovetsian Dances” and Symphony No. 8 in G major by Antonín Dvorák.

Return to the court of Louis XIV with New York dancers Carlos Fittante and Caroline Copeland, who will join the Kingsbury Ensemble — St. Louis’ premier early-music group — for a special one-night-only concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 19, in Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall.

Photo by David KilperOne of seven projects unveiled April 6 as part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ 22nd annual University City Sculpture Series, on view through May 11.

Photo by David KilperMen versus women, modern versus traditional, culture versus colonization. Such conflicts lie at the heart of “The Lion and the Jewel,” a sly and subversive comedy by Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka. The Performing Arts Department continues this deceptively light-hearted carnival of dance and song as its spring mainstage production this weekend, April 25-27.

A group of 18 students dancers from the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences has taken top honors at the Central Region conference of the American College Dance Festival Association March 4-9 at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. The students were recognized for their performance of “Grid,” an original work choreographed by Cecil Slaughter, senior lecturer in dance.