Arts & Sciences

Officially known as Symphony No. 8 in B Minor and written in 1822, the piece is the most mysterious and the most forward-looking of his works.

His smash adaptation of Mel Brooks’ The Producers won 12 Tony Awards, including “Best Musical”; he’ll speak on “Why We Need Broadway.”

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.

Crawford (Sept. 23) is the author of five poetry collections, and Ramke (Sept. 29) has written eight books of poems.

Created by Cindy Cooper and directed by Joan Lipkin, the presentation describes the real-life effects of policies.

Rock evidence indicated to WUSTL scientists that water froze and melted there at some point in Martian history.