Arts & Culture

Soprano Kiera Duffy and pianist Sandra Geary will present Washington University’s annual Liederabend at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9. Literally translated as “evening of song,” Liederabend is a German term referring to a recital given by a singer and pianist, particularly of works by 19th-century Austrian or German composers. The Oct. 9 program will feature Robert Schumann’s beloved cycle of sixteen songs titled Dichterliebe, based on poems of Heinrich Heine.

Leslie LyonsUniverses in *Slanguage*From hip-hop and blues to boleros and salsa, the cutting-edge poetry collective Universes captures the distinctive sounds and percussive rhythms of their native South Bronx. In October, Universes will make its St. Louis debut with Slanguage, a blistering yet exuberant depiction of modern urban life, at Washington University’s Edison Theatre.

Influential Mexican literary and political figure Carlos Fuentes will deliver the Association of Latin American Students Lecture for Washington University’s Assembly Series at 11 a.m. on Oct. 12. in Graham Chapel. His talk, which is free and open to the public, is titled “Celebrating Cervantes and Don Quixote.”

Courtesy photoBonnie Jo CampbellFiction writer Bonnie Jo Campbell will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, for the Writing Program Reading Series. Campbell is the author Q Road (2002), named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers book, and the collection Women & Other Animals (1999), which won the prestigious Associated Writing Programs prize for short fiction.

David Kilper*Hair*Break out the love beads and buckskin fringe. Hair is back. Subtitled The American Tribal Love/Rock Musical, Hair was one of the most popular and controversial plays of the 1960s, a Broadway smash for the “sex, drugs and rock-and-roll” generation, sparking radio hits and national protests. In October, Washington University’s Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences will revive this countercultural classic as its fall Mainstage production.

The first time Jerry Sincoff designed a house, he failed. Literally. As a ninth-grader at Hanley Junior High in University City, Sincoff — a voracious draftsman with an affinity for buildings and rocket ships — was required to enter the inaugural Greater St. Louis Science Fair. Instead of a science display, he submitted a conceptual […]

The Washington University Symphony Orchestra will perform Franz Schubert’s famous “Unfinished” Symphony — the most mysterious and the most forward-looking of the composer’s works — as part of its fall 2005 concert. The performance is free and open to the public and begins at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, in the university’s Graham Chapel.

Courtesy photoRocco LandesmanLegendary Broadway producer Rocco Landesman — whose smash adaptation of Mel Brooks’ The Producers won 12 Tony Awards, including “Best Musical” — will speak on “Why We Need Broadway” for Washington University’s Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences. The talk, which is free and open to the public, begins at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, in the university’s Edison Theatre. Edison Theatre is located in the Mallinckrodt Student Center, 6445 Forsyth Blvd. For more information, call (314) 935-5858.

Courtesy photoBin RamkePoet Bin Ramke will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, for the Writing Program Reading Series. The reading is free and open to the public and takes place in Hurst Lounge, located on the second floor of Duncker Hall, in the northwest corner of Brookings Quadrangle, near the intersection of Hoyt and Brookings drives. For more information, call (314) 935-7130.

Scottish poet and scholar Robert Crawford will read from his work at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, for the Writing Program Reading Series. The reading is free and open to the public and takes place in Hurst Lounge, located on the second floor of Duncker Hall, in the northwest corner of Brookings Quadrangle, near the intersection of Hoyt and Brookings drives. For more information, call (314) 935-7130.