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Joe Angeles/WUSTL Photo ServicesLingerie by Natalie AntinPress images for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ 77th Annual Fashion Design Show, which takes place at Saint Louis Galleria Sunday, May 7.

The Washington University Concert Choir will present an evening of French choral music at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 20, in Graham Chapel. The program, which will feature Gabriel Fauré’s beloved Requiem, is dedicated to the memories of Elizabeth Gray Danforth, wife of Chancellor Emeritus William H. Danforth and first lady of Washington University for nearly a quarter century, who passed away last spring; and Sona Haydon, a longtime lecturer in piano for the Department of Music, who died last fall.

Opal Andrews*Violet: A Musical Pilgrimage*It’s 1964. An embittered yet deeply religious young woman, disfigured by childhood injury, boards a bus for the Deep South, in search of a TV evangelist who claims to possess healing powers. So begins Violet: A Musical Pilgrimage, one of the most acclaimed off-Broadway shows of the last decade. From April 21 to 30, the Performing Arts Department will present six performances in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre.

The awards recognize those who have demonstrated creativity, innovation, leadership and vision to the practice of architecture & the school.

The assistant professor of theory & composition earned a doctorate from the Juilliard School in 2005 and joined WUSTL’s music department last fall.

Jon Cook, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in Washington University’s Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will speak on the craft of poetry at 8 p.m., Thursday, April 15. Cook is the author of Romanticism and Ideology (1981), William Hazlitt: Selected Writings (1991), Poetry in Theory (2004) and the forthcoming Hazlitt in Love.

She succeeds Sabine Eckmann; the appointment comes at a critical time for the museum, which will open a new 65,000-square-foot facility this fall.

Courtesy ImageDigital Imaging & Photography Program juniors recently spent a month documenting the work of Operation Food Search; an exhibit runs through April 19.

Erin McGlothlin, 2006 faculty fellow and assistant professor of Germanic languages & literatures, will speak on “Narrative Transgression in Contemporary German-Jewish Holocaust Literature” April 17. The talk will investigate ways in which contemporary German-Jewish writing on the Holocaust overtly attempts to puncture the sacred taboo on Holocaust representation by deploying satire, irony, farce, the grotesque, the burlesque and the pornographic.

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis will honor four outstanding architecture alumni at its 13th annual Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner April 6. Recipients will be Soo K. Chan (BArch ’84), Eric Haesloop (BArch ’77), Sandra Ford Mendler (BArch ’81) and Jimmie E. Tucker (MArch ’81). In addition, Corinna Cotsen (MArch and MSCE ’83) will receive the 2006 Dean’s Medal for exceptional service while Brian Vitale (March ’95) will receive the Young Alumni Award.