Music

Washington University hosts dozens of concerts each semester, ranging from student and faculty recitals to special appearances by local and nationally renowned artists. Highlights include Edison Theatre's premiere OVATIONS! Series; the Thursday-night Jazz at Holmes Series; the student-run Gargoyle rock club; the annual Washington University Opera; and numerous a cappella ensembles, including The Amateurs, The Greenleafs, More Fools Than Wise, The Mosaic Whispers and The Pikers.

Meanwhile, Department of Music faculty represent virtually every area of concentration within the field of music. Composers, theorists, historians and performers work together to provide course offerings and musical events of the broadest possible interest. Many of the instrumental instructors are musicians from the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, including a number of first-chair players.

Faculty Experts:

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Gerald L. Early Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters Gerald L. Early Download Early is a noted essayist and American culture critic. A professor of English, of African & African American studies and of American culture studies, all in Arts & Sciences, Early is the author of several books, including The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American ... Expertise: American literature, African-American culture 1940-1960, Afro-American autobiography, non-fiction prose, baseball, jazz music, prizefighting, … Direct contact: (314) 935-5576 / glearly@wustl.edu

Hugh Macdonald Avis Blewett Professor of Music Hugh MacDonald Download Macdonald is a renowned expert on the music of Hector Berlioz and has published extensively on the works of the French Romantic composer. He is well-known for translating operas into English from German, French and Italian and regularly presents pre-concert talks at Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra performances ... Expertise: 19th century composers, Berlioz, French music, Mozart, opera Direct contact: (314) 935-5519 / hjmacdon@artsci.wustl.edu

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News Stories & Tip Sheets:

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Fidelio etc. Washington University Opera presents "Opera Circus" May 2 and 3 April 23, 2008 -- The Washington University Opera will perform close to a dozen excerpts from eight well-known operas at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 2 and 3, as part of its "Opera Circus" concert. The program will include selections by Beethoven, Donizetti, Mozart, Humperdinck, Bizet, Lehar, Hoiby and Strauss.

Catch That Train! Dan Zanes & Friends in concert at Edison Theatre May 10 April 22, 2008 -- Courtesy photo Dan Zanes Download In the 1980s Dan Zanes was lead singer for the Indie garage-pop band the Del Fuegos. But in recent years Zanes has become the hottest thing to hit children's music since "Frère Jaque," releasing half-a-dozen critically acclaimed all-ages albums that reinvent American roots-rock. On Saturday, May 10, Dan Zanes & Friends present a pair of shows as part of Edison Theatre's popular ovations! for young people series.

Chancellor's Concert Annual performance to feature music of Respighi, Borodin and Dvorák April 27 April 17, 2008 -- The Washington University Symphony Orchestra and the Washington University Concert Choir will present the 2008 Chancellor's Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 27. Dan Presgrave, instrumental music coordinator, conducts the 70-plus-member Symphony Orchestra. John Stewart, director of vocal activities, conducts the 60-plus-member Concert Choir. The program include Ottorino Respighi's Fountains of Rome, Alexander Borodin's "Polovetsian Dances" and Symphony No. 8 in G major by Antonín Dvorák.

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The day the music died The Wall Street Journal July 20, 2007 -- Article looks at the devastating effect the 1967 Detroit riot had on black economic development and its entrepreneurial gem, Motown Records. It plunged the city into a four-decade economic decline that is only now beginning to turn around. WUSTL professor Gerald Early, author of One Nation Under a Groove: Motown and American Culture, is one of the experts commenting on the events of that time.

More News:

Borgia Infami
New York City Opera debuts new work by campus composer
April 25, 2003 - The New York City Opera will debut Harold Blumenfeld's recently completed Borgia Infami as part of its VOX 2003 showcase of new operatic works by American composers. Blumenfeld, professor emeritus of music in Arts & Sciences, began Borgia Infami during a 1998 residency at the Bogliasco Foundation's Centro Studi Ligure, near Genoa, Italy, and completed work in St. Louis in 2002.

Washington University Opera goes Broadway
'Most Happy Fella' at Saint Louis Art Musuem March 21-22
March 3, 2003 - The Washington University Opera will present Frank Loesser's legendarily ambitious Broadway musical The Most Happy Fella at 7 p.m. March 21-22 in the Saint Louis Art Museum auditorium. Set in 1927, the story opens in a San Francisco restaurant where the beautiful young waitress Rosabella (played by Karen Hetzler, a master's candidate in vocal performance) has just received a written proposal of marriage from Tony Esposito (senior Scott Levin), a shy yet good-hearted Italian vintner from the Napa Valley.