Author: Liam Otten

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.

David Kilper/WUSTL PhotoGuys and Dolls at Edison Theatre Oct. 10-12, 17-19.New York dives and nightlife hotspots, gamblers and chorus girls and Salvation Army bands. Washington University’s Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present Guys and Dolls, the quintessential American musical, as its fall 2003 Mainstage production.

WrightWriter, publisher and acclaimed poet C. D. Wright — “one of America’s oddest, best, and most appealing poets” according to Publisher’s Weekly — will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, as part of the Fall Reading Series 2003.

Courtesy photoAn alternate ITC Galliard (1978) italic letter “g” drawn for Cherie Cone.Matthew Carter is perhaps the preeminent type designer of the latter 20th century, his work featured in Time, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated magazines as well as The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Washington Post, among many others. The Washington University School of Art will survey Carter’s distinguished career with the exhibition Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter, on view at the Des Lee Gallery Oct. 10-Nov. 29.

Three European jazz combos will launch Washington University’s fall 2003 Jazz at Holmes Series with a pair of free Thursday-evening performances Sept. 25 and Oct. 2

Courtesy photoThe Aquila Theatre presents Othello at Edison Theatre Nov. 2The Aquila Theatre Company, one of the nation’s finest producers of touring classical drama, will launch Washington University’s 31st annual Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series Nov. 2 with a new adaptation of Othello, set on a military base on modern-day Cyprus.

TeachoutTerry Teachout, author of the New York Times Notable Book The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken, will present a pair of events for Washington University’s 2003-04 Center for the Humanities’ Writers Series Oct. 13-14.

The Washington University Gallery of Art will host An Evening With Comic Artists Charles Burns and Gary Panter at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, in Steinberg Auditorium.