Arts & Culture

On May 10, Dan Zanes & Friends present a pair of shows as part of Edison Theatre’s popular ovations! for young people series.

To celebrate nearly 100 years of existence and a new era in social work education, the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis is publishing What We Believe: A History of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work: 1909- 2007. Author Candace O’Connor begins the book with a look at poverty in St. Louis and the early history of social work education locally, and concludes with an overview of more recent accomplishments and a glimpse at the Brown School’s future. Threaded throughout the book are milestones and evolutions in social work education as well as first-person accounts from alumni and current and former faculty.

You’ve heard opera, and you’ve heard rock, but you’ve never heard opera rocked like the East Village Opera Company. Over the past five years, this powerhouse ensemble — comprising a five-piece band, a string quartet and two outstanding vocalists — has created electric, hard-hitting arrangements of many of opera’s “greatest hits.” At 8 p.m. May […]

The Washington University Opera will perform close to a dozen excerpts from eight well-known operas at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 2 and 3, as part of its “Opera Circus” concert. The program will include selections by Beethoven, Donizetti, Mozart, Humperdinck, Bizet, Lehar, Hoiby and Strauss.

Harriet Hosmer, *Oenone* (1854-55)Neoclassical sculptor Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1830-1908) was one of the most successful women artists of her day, described by the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning as “a perfectly emancipated female.” She was also the first woman to study anatomy at what would become the Washington University School of Medicine and produced many of her most significant works — such as the bronze statue of Missouri senator Thomas Hart Benton in Lafayette Park — for St. Louis patrons. This summer the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will join other local institutions in celebrating Hosmer’s life and work with a special Teaching Gallery exhibition, on view May 2 to July 21.

The Washington University Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir will present the 2008 Chancellor’s Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 27. Sponsored by the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, the concert is free and open to the public and will take place in the 560 Music Center’s E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall. Dan Presgrave, […]

You’ve heard opera, and you’ve heard rock, but you’ve never heard opera rocked like the East Village Opera Company. On Friday, May 2, the East Village Opera Company will make its St. Louis debut as part of the Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series.

Courtesy PhotoBeginning May 2, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present “The Barbizon School and the Nature of Landscape,” an exhibition of close to 40 works by leading Barbizon figures and by later French and American artists who were influenced by the school.

The Symphony Orchestra and the Concert Choir will present the 2008 Chancellor’s Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 27. The program includes Ottorino Respighi’s “Fountains of Rome,” Alexander Borodin’s “Polovetsian Dances” and “Symphony No. 8 in G major” by Antonín Dvorák.

Courtesy photoDan ZanesIn the 1980s Dan Zanes was lead singer for the Indie garage-pop band the Del Fuegos. But in recent years Zanes has become the hottest thing to hit children’s music since “Frère Jaque,” releasing half-a-dozen critically acclaimed all-ages albums that reinvent American roots-rock. On Saturday, May 10, Dan Zanes & Friends present a pair of shows as part of Edison Theatre’s popular ovations! for young people series.