Author: Liam Otten

In high school, John M. Lasala learned the most pivotal and enduring lesson of his life: Persistence and dedication are the keys to success. LeRoy Vaughn, Lasala’s football coach and chemistry teacher — not to mention father of New York Mets first baseman Mo Vaughn — taught his undersized team to capitalize on its strengths […]

Photo courtesy of Visual Media Center, Columbia UniversityAmiens CathedralStephen Murray, a leading authority on medieval art and architecture and founder of the Visual Media Center at Columbia University, will speak on Medieval Architecture and the New Media: Representing and Creating Humanistic Content at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18.

The Kingsbury Ensemble, a group specializing in music of the Baroque and Classical periods, will present a concert titled Fête Galante: Love & Nature at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9, in Washington University’s Holmes Lounge.

Novelist, translator and poet Jaimy Gordon will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, for The Writing Program Reading Series at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition, Gordon will give a talk on the craft of fiction at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6.

Sheet music for the 1902 musical “The Wizard of Oz.”Selections from the 1902 stage musical The Wizard of Oz by St. Louis native Paul Tietjens will highlight a concert of 19th- and early 20th-century popular song at the Washington University Gallery of Art Friday, Nov. 7.

Renowned critic Helen Vendler and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham will headline Conversations About Poetry, a three-day discussion held Oct. 15-17 as part of Washington University’s Fall Reading Series 2003.

Scrap Arts MusicScrap Arts Music, a Vancouver-based percussion ensemble that performs on instruments built from recycled and salvaged materials, will launch Edison Theatre’s 2003-04 ovations! for young people series Nov. 1.

Photo courtesy Productions Mille-PattesLa Bottine SourianteQuebec’s La Bottine Souriante are living legends of French North American roots music, an explosive ten-member ensemble whose distinctive sound infuses traditional folk with the quickness of jazz, the energy of salsa and the breadth of world music. In November, “the best band in the world!” (according to folk magazine Dirty Linen) comes to Washington University in St. Louis as part of the Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series.

Master carpenter Tamotsu Edo of Awajishima, Japan, will work with students from the Washington University School of Architecture to construct and install a traditional Japanese teahouse waiting bench, or koshikake machiai, in the university’s Elizabeth Danforth Butterfly Garden.

Russell MaynorBryantBass baritone Stephen Bryant will join forces with pianist Seth Carlin, professor of music in Arts & Sciences, for the Department of Music’s annual Liederabend at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5.