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2 months ago | 
source.washu.edu | Liam Otten
Violinist Karen Gomyo is “a first-rate artist of real musical command, vitality, brilliance and intensity” (Chicago Tribune). Orion Weiss is a “brilliant pianist” (The New York Times) with “powerful technique and exceptional insight” (The Washington Post). At 7 p.m. Feb. 16, Gomyo and Weiss will perform music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Samuel Adams, Antonín Dvořák and Johannes Brahms for the Great Artists Series at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
source.washu.edu | Liam Otten
Sir Stephen Hough is a “keyboard colossus” (The Guardian), “a pianist of great subtlety” (New York Times) who “challenges and deepens our perception of everything he touches” (Classical Source). At 7 p.m. Feb. 2, Hough will perform a solo recital featuring music of Cécile Chaminade, Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin for the Great Artists Series at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
source.washu.edu | Liam Otten
Emmanuel Pahud, “one of today’s most dazzling interpreters of the 20th-century flute repertoire” (BBC Music Magazine), and pianist Alessio Bax, one of “the most remarkable young pianists now before the public” (Gramophone), will launch WashU’s 2025 Great Artists Series Jan. 23.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
source.washu.edu | Liam Otten
Illustrator Carson Ellis, sculptor Beatriz Cortez and architect Rahul Mehrotra are among the internationally renowned creative professionals who will discuss their work for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis this spring.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
source.washu.edu | Liam Otten
Jerome J. Sincoff, a former dean of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, died in hospice Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. He was 91. Sincoff, who earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture from WashU in 1956, spent most of his career with St. Louis-based HOK, rising from draftsman to design and production architect to president and CEO.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
source.washu.edu | Liam Otten
Alex Ullman, a Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry Postdoctoral Fellow in WashU’s Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, will receive a 2024 William Riley Parker Prize honorable mention from the Modern Language Association. Ullman will be recognized for his article “Audre Lorde, Sound Theorist: Register, Silence, Vibrato, Timbre,” published in the May issue of PMLA, the association’s journal of literary scholarship. The MLA’s oldest award, the Parker Prize was first granted in 1964.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
source.washu.edu | Liam Otten
Abram Van Engen, the Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities in WashU Arts & Sciences, has won Christianity Today’s 2024 Best Book Award in Culture, Poetry, and the Arts for “Word Made Fresh: An Invitation to Poetry for the Church.“The book provides a friendly introduction to poetry, offering practical tips to engage readers, especially those who might typically shy away from the genre. “Christian traditions have long been rich with poetry,” Van Engen said.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
source.washu.edu | Liam Otten |Claire Gauen
In 2018, more than 1,700 candidates ran for the U.S. Congress. And 98% had websites. Most featured lengthy biographies. “So here’s a dataset for a behavior that encompasses almost everyone in Congress,” says Betsy Sinclair, professor and chair of political science in Arts & Sciences. “And no one in my field was studying it.”Billy Acree, professor of Spanish in Arts & Sciences, noticed something else. The biographies followed certain rules. “Beginnings are always humble. The politician leaves home.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
source.washu.edu | Liam Otten
Sam Fox, a business and civic leader who was also among St. Louis’ most prominent philanthropists, died Monday, Dec. 2, 2024, surrounded by friends and family. He was 95. A former U.S. ambassador to Belgium, Fox was a WashU alumnus and long-serving member of the Board of Trustees. He established numerous fellowships, scholarship programs and endowed professorships and in 1998 was appointed chair of the $1.5 billion Campaign for Washington University.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
source.washu.edu | Liam Otten
“Dance is a temporal art form,” said David Marchant. “Each movement captures the present moment while gesturing toward past and future.”Marchant, a professor of practice in dance in the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences, is artistic director for “It’s Time,” the 2024 WashU Dance Theatre performance. The evening-length concert will explore the relationship between time and dance through six new and original works by faculty and guest choreographers. The program, which takes place Dec.
