Concert, symposium highlight French composer Guilmant

The Department of Music in Arts & Sciences and the St. Louis chapter of the American Guild of Organists will present a concert and symposium highlighting the works of French composer Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911) March 19-20. The concert will commemorate the immense organ of 10,000 pipes built for Festival Hall, the primary concert venue of […]

Avant-garde comic book artists to lecture Sept. 27

The Gallery of Art will host “An Evening With Comic Artists Charles Burns and Gary Panter” at 7 p.m. Sept. 27 in Steinberg Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public and is organized in conjunction with the St. Louis Comic Art Show, a one-day event held downtown at the City Museum, 701 […]

Chamber Orchestra to perform hits of the Baroque Feb. 2

The Washington University Chamber Orchestra — under the director of Elizabeth Macdonald, director of strings in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences — will perform a concert of all-time hits from the Baroque era and the 20th century at 8 p.m. Feb. 2 in Umrath Hall Lounge. The concert will opens with American […]

Chancellor’s Concert to feature new commissions

The Washington University Symphony Orchestra and Washington University Chamber Choir will present the 2004 Chancellor’s Concert at 3 p.m. April 25 in Graham Chapel. The concert is free and open to the public. It will feature the premiere of three new compositions — commissioned for the University’s Sesquicentennial — by Harold Blumenfeld, John MacIvor Perkins […]
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