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The Washington University Concert Band will perform music of Franz von Suppé, Malcolm Arnold and John Philip Sousa at 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5, in the University’s Graham Chapel. Dan Presgrave, instrumental music coordinator in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, directs the program.

The Concert Choir of Washington University will perform music of Thomas Weelkes, Tomas Luis de Vittoria, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Francis Poulenc at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10, in Graham Chapel.

Al Toroian, former director of the university’s news office for 20 years, died Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2004, from complications of pneumonia at the Life Care Center in St. Louis. He was 80. A private graveside service will be Wednesday, Nov. 24. A memorial service in Graham Chapel will be scheduled later.

Courtesy photoBrigitta WinklerTango legend Brigitta Winkler, co-founder of the renowned Tanzart studio in Berlin, will host a weekend of dances and workshops Dec. 10-12 for The Tango Group at Washington University in St. Louis.

Ethnomusicologist Patrick Burke, assistant professor of music in Arts & Sciences at Washington University, will present a lecture titled “Onyx Club Revue: Jazz and White Masculinity in the Early Swing Era” at 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10.

H. pylori bound to stomach tissueThe bacterium that causes ulcers and contributes to stomach cancers uses a clever interaction between two genes to randomly tighten and loosen its grip on the stomach, according to a study by researchers at the School of Medicine and Umeå University in Sweden.

Researchers at the School of Medicine have identified a previously unsuspected response by mouse heart muscle cells to fasting conditions: the cells’ power generators, the mitochondria, appear to remodel and consume extra internal walls or membranes in an effort to supply energy to the rest of the cell.

British tenor Paul Elliott will join Washington University’s Kingsbury Ensemble for a concert titled “Love and War: Music of the Early Italian Baroque” at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20.

Hilltop Campus Phase IVA Housing Construction has begun on the Phase IVA Housing project, in the South 40 just east of Liggett House. The foundations are being formed and poured. The project is on schedule and will be completed and ready for occupancy in August 2005 as originally scheduled. Fox Arts Center The construction fencing […]

David Kilper/WUSTL Photo Servies“Taunting the Monster”Washington University Dance Theatre (WUDT), the annual showcase of professionally choreographed works performed by student dancers, will present Dancescape, its 2004 concert, Dec. 3-5 in Edison Theatre. The concert will feature 30 dancers, selected by audition, performing seven works by faculty and guest choreographers.