Author: Liam Otten

El Museo Cultural de Santa FePeter Elsbeck, Cristina Greavu and Eric Rang, all graduate students in architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, have won an international competition to create a sculptural façade for El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe. The group’s winning design was selected from more than 100 entries submitted by architects, artists and designers representing 10 countries. The team will receive a $5,000 first-place cash award.

Trout Fishing in America — the long-standing musical partnership between 5-foot-5-inch bass player Keith Grimwood and 6-foot-9-inch guitarist Ezra Idlet —brings its infectious blend of folk, pop and family-friendly music to Edison Theatre at 11 a.m. May 5.

The Washington University Opera will perform Richard Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” — one of the most recognized motifs in Western music — as part of its Evening at the Opera concerts 8 p.m. May 4-5 in Umrath Hall.

The Kemper Art Museum will present “Ansel Adams: Reverence for Life,” an exhibition of photographs showcasing works from the personal collections of the Adams family, in conjunction with the International Symposium on Energy and Environment, sponsored by the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.

Preview of Edison Theatre’s 2007-08 OVATIONS! Series.

Dickson Street stationA collaborative light-rail master plan involving close to 50 architecture students from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and the University of Arkansas has won a national Education Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects. The award, one of only three given this year, will be presented in May during the AIA National Convention in San Antonio.

Photo by Joe AngelesThe Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will present The 78th Annual Fashion Design Show featuring student works at Saint Louis Galleria May 6. The fully choreographed, Paris-style extravaganza will feature more than 50 professional and volunteer models wearing more than 150 outfits created by 19 seniors and 12 juniors from the school’s Fashion Design program.

From the helicopter assault in Apocalypse Now to Elmer Fudd singing “kill da wabbit” in What’s Opera, Doc?, “Ride of the Valkyries” by Richard Wagner (1813-83) is one of the most recognized motifs in Western music. The Washington University Opera will perform “Ride of the Valkyries” from Wagner’s opera Die Walküre (1870) as part of its “Evening at the Opera” concert at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 4 and 5,

*Veiled*The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will present its annual MFA Thesis Exhibition in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum May 11 to July 16. The exhibition will include approximately 60 artworks in a variety of media by 14 second-year master’s candidates from the Sam Fox School’s Graduate School of Art.

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, with a national reputation for combining rugged athleticism with fluid sensuality, makes its St. Louis debut at 8 p.m. April 27 at Edison Theatre, with shows continuing through April 29.