Arts & Sciences

The Community Music School building in University City includes the 1,115-seat E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, a 300-seat theater & a small recital hall.

The performances will feature close to 40 student dancers, selected by audition, performing six works by faculty and guest choreographers.

The American Physical Society Historic Sites Committee selected WUSTL along with four other U.S. sites, honoring physicist Arthur Holly Compton.

Photo by Kevin LowderSome 55 delegates from 19 participating universities attended the 2nd National Conference on Graduate Student Leadership Nov. 18-20.

The Concert Choir of Washington University will perform a concert of “Works from the Renaissance to American Folksongs” at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, in Graham Chapel. John Stewart, director of vocal activities, directs the program.

Washington University’s Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will present its annual sing-along of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, in Graham Chapel. John Stewart, director of vocal activities, directs the program.

The Washington University Opera will present “Two Operatic Cinderellas,” featuring excerpts from Gioacchino Rossini’s “Cenerentola” and Jules Massenet’s “Cendrillo,” at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 16 and 17, in Karl Umrath Lounge.

David Kilper/WUSTL Photo ServicesCommunity Music SchoolWashington University has reached an agreement with Webster University to purchase the Community Music School building, 560 Trinity Ave., in University City. Built in 1929, the two-story, 45,000-square-foot former synagogue is located less than a mile from the Hilltop Campus and will provide Washington University with additional — and much needed — performance, rehearsal and teaching facilities.

Fiction writer Scott Heim will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, for the Writing Program Reading Series. Heim is the author of the novel Mysterious Skin (1995), recently adapted to film by director Gregg Araki. The story is set in the small-town of Hutchinson, KS, where two boys belonging to the same Little League team unknowingly share struggles and obsession — sex, loyalty, first love and aliens — that direct their adolescent lives.

MayLarry May, Ph.D., professor of philosophy in Arts & Sciences, will deliver a keynote address on “The Moral Writer” as part of Celebrating Our Books, Recognizing Our Authors, Washington University’s fourth annual faculty book colloquium, at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, in the Ann W. Olin Women’s Building Formal Lounge.