Author: Liam Otten

Washington University’s Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences will present “What is a Child?,” a conversation with University of Iowa education experts Gail Masuchika Boldt and Cynthia Lewis, at 4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 24, in the Ann W. Olin Women’s Building Formal Lounge.

Internationally renowned organist James Kibbie will showcase the newly restored Roland Quest Organ in historic Graham Chapel with a free concert Jan. 23. The program — selected to highlight the organ’s renewed versatility — will include music of Bach, Franck and Widor.

The Washington University Chamber Orchestra — under the direction of Elizabeth Macdonald, director of strings in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences — will present a concert titled “Viva Vivaldi,” at 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 24, in Karl Umrath Hall Lounge.

The Tango Group at Washington University will begin its spring season from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday, Jan. 21, with a tango/swing/salsa dance featuring the band Farshid Etniko.

Carmen is perhaps the ultimate operatic femme fatale, a beautiful yet unfaithful Gypsy who maddens her Spanish lover, with tragic results. On Jan. 30 and 31, the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences will present a two-day symposium on “The Many Faces of Carmen” as part of it’s 2004-05 Translation Series.

CarlinSeth Carlin, professor of music in Arts & Sciences, will join Washington University’s Kingsbury Ensemble at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, as featured fortepianist in “The Splendor of Vienna,” a concert of chamber music by Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum”Inside Out Loud”This spring, more than 30 campus and community partners will join the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis to present close to 70 events relating to women’s health. Events — which range from exhibitions, concerts and theatrical performances to lectures, seminars and health screenings — are held in conjunction with the museum’s Inside Out Loud: Women’s Health in Contemporary Art, the first major exhibition dedicated to the topic, which will be on view Jan. 21 to April 24.

Lois GreenfieldMonique HaleyThe River North Chicago Dance Company, the eclectic, 13-member ensemble known for packing concerts with short, engaging works by contemporary choreographers, will return to Washington University’s Edison Theatre for a trio of performances Jan. 21-23.

Courtesy photoLiz CallawayBetween them,singers Liz Callaway and Jason Graae boast eleven Broadway shows, more than 65 recordings and dozens of film and television appearances. They also boast a friendship that has survived more than 20 years of showbiz. On Jan. 15, the Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series will present these “musical pals” in Backstage Broadway Buddies, an intimate Cabaret-style evening of standards and stories, solos and duets, gossip and sentiment.

GalumphaGalumpha — the New York-based dance trio known for a daring combination of physical comedy, acrobatic choreography and striking visual effects — will descend upon St. Louis Jan. 15 for a special one-time-only matinee as part of the Edison Theatre ovations! for young people series.