Author: Liam Otten

Winners were Highness by Carolyn Kras; Shades of Light Blue by Yuan Ji; Flick by Nicholas A. Loyal; and Chosen Family by Nick Rogers.

She joined the museum as curator in fall 1999 and regularly teaches seminars in the Department of Art History and Archaeology.

It will present works of Antonio Vivaldi and Johann Sebastian Bach, today’s most popular composers of the Baroque era.

EckmannSabine Eckmann, Ph.D., will become director of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis effective July 1, 2005, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced today. Eckmann joined the Kemper Art Museum as curator in fall 1999 and also regularly teaches seminars in the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences. She succeeds Mark S. Weil, Ph.D., the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Collaboration in the Arts, who has led the museum since 1998. Weil, a longtime faculty member in art history, will retire June 30.

The Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences has announced winners for the 2005 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition. Four student plays were selected in two categories. Full-length winners were Highness, by junior Carolyn Kras, and Shades of Light Blue, by junior Yuan Ji. Flick, by freshman Nicholas A. Loyal, and Chosen Family, by freshman Nick Rogers, won for short plays.

Washington University’s Kingsbury Ensemble will conclude its 2004-05 season with works of Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) — today’s most popular composers of the Baroque era. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 15, in Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall. Tickets are $5 to $15.

The Washington University Opera will present excerpts from four operas by Richard Strauss at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 6 and 7, in the University’s Karl Umrath Lounge.

The show is comparable to a Broadway-style revue, filled with lights, music, drama and, of course, glamorous costumes.

The program will highlight two recently acquired instruments — a harp and grand piano — as well as Graham Chapel’s newly restored organ.

He taught philosophy in Arts & Sciences at WUSTL from 1947-1958; he is perhaps best-known for the book The World’s Religions.