Author: Liam Otten

The concert will offer a rare opportunity to experience temple music and dance from one of the world’s most ancient sacred traditions.

“It’s a play about someone trying to remember who they are,” said playwright Brian Golden, a 2004 WUSTL graduate.

The Washington University Symphony Orchestra and the Washington University Chamber Choir will present the 2005 Chancellor’s Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 1, in Graham Chapel. The program, which includes works by Hector Berlioz, Felix Mendelssohn and Ottorino Respighi, will highlight two recently acquired instruments — a new harp and a new grand piano — as well as Graham Chapel’s newly restored Roland Quest organ.

Eric WoolseyChristena Doggrell in “Six Seconds in Charlack”For St. Louis commuters, the small inner-ring suburb of Charlack, Mo., passes in the blink of an eye, its borders marked by a pair of signs set only a few hundred yards apart along I-170. Yet as Brian Golden’s Six Seconds in Charlack reminds us, sometimes an instant is enough to change a life. The drama — winner of Washington University’s 2004 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition — will be presented by the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences April 28 to May 1.

The Department of Art History and Archaeology in Arts & Sciences will present Exploring the History of Art, a symposium honoring Mark S. Weil, Ph.D., at 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 22, in the Ann W. Olin Women’s Building. Weil, the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Collaboration in the Arts as well as director of the Sam Fox Arts Center and Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, is retiring this June. He has been associated with Washington University for 47 years.

Courtesy photo*Sacred Music, Sacred Dance*Monks from Tibet’s legendary Drepung Loseling monastery will present The Mystical Arts of Tibet: Sacred Music, Sacred Dance at Washington University in St. Louis’ Edison Theatre April 29 and 30. The concert — presented by the Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series — will offer a rare opportunity to experience temple music and dance from one of the world’s most ancient sacred traditions, as performed by monks for whom these traditions remain a way of life.

Pianist Seth Carlin, professor of music in Arts & Sciences, will dedicate the music department’s new grand piano in Graham Chapel with a concert of works by Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and Clara Schumann (1819-1896).

The show, which premiered in New York last year, will make its St. Louis debut at 8 p.m. April 22-23 as part of the OVATIONS! Series.

The Concert Choir of Washington University, under the direction of John Stewart, will perform Animal Planet in Graham Chapel.

It will integrate teaching techniques based on the work of modern choreographer Lester Horton with a variety of body-friendly concepts.