Author: Liam Otten

The Washington University Symphony Orchestra will perform Franz Schubert’s famous “Unfinished” Symphony — the most mysterious and the most forward-looking of the composer’s works — as part of its fall 2005 concert. The performance is free and open to the public and begins at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, in the university’s Graham Chapel.

Courtesy photoRocco LandesmanLegendary Broadway producer Rocco Landesman — whose smash adaptation of Mel Brooks’ The Producers won 12 Tony Awards, including “Best Musical” — will speak on “Why We Need Broadway” for Washington University’s Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences. The talk, which is free and open to the public, begins at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, in the university’s Edison Theatre. Edison Theatre is located in the Mallinckrodt Student Center, 6445 Forsyth Blvd. For more information, call (314) 935-5858.

Courtesy photoBin RamkePoet Bin Ramke will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, for the Writing Program Reading Series. The reading is free and open to the public and takes place in Hurst Lounge, located on the second floor of Duncker Hall, in the northwest corner of Brookings Quadrangle, near the intersection of Hoyt and Brookings drives. For more information, call (314) 935-7130.

Scottish poet and scholar Robert Crawford will read from his work at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, for the Writing Program Reading Series. The reading is free and open to the public and takes place in Hurst Lounge, located on the second floor of Duncker Hall, in the northwest corner of Brookings Quadrangle, near the intersection of Hoyt and Brookings drives. For more information, call (314) 935-7130.

Paul WarcholBrian Healy ArchitectsBrian Healy, founder and principal of Brian Healy Architects in Boston, will launch the fall Architecture Lecture Series, sponsored by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, with a talk at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 26.

He’s the author of more than 30 books, including The Silo, The Hunt, Visitants and The Hierarchy of Sheep.

“Unsettled Ground: Nature, Landscape, and Ecology Now!” is co-sponsored with the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.

Jazz at Holmes features professional musicians from around St. Louis and abroad performing in a relaxed, coffeehouse-style setting.

Karl Hagstrom Miller, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas, will speak on “Talking Machine World: Music and Globalization in the Early Twentieth Century” at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23.

St. Louis pianist Patrick McClellan will continue the fall Jazz at Holmes series with a performance from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22.