Music

Chair: Dolores Pesce

Home Page: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~music/ Telephone: (314) 935-5581

The Department of Music at Washington University is dedicated to undergraduate instruction for all students at all levels. Music majors, music minors, and other interested students share the same introductory classes, permitting easy interaction between majors and non-majors. We seek students who recognize music as a serious activity and consider the study of music an indispensable part of their lives, regardless of what career they have in mind.

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.

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.

Lalo and Schubert Washington University's Eliot Trio to present annual concert April 10 March 27, 2008 -- Carlin Download Washington University's Eliot Trio will perform a pair of piano trios by Edouard Lalo and Franz Schubert at April 10 in the 560 Music Center's E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall. Dedicated to performing masterworks of the piano trio literature, the group consists of Seth Carlin, professor of music and director of the piano program in the Department of Music; violinist David Halen, concertmaster for the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; and cellist Bjorn Ranheim, also with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.

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Faculty Experts:

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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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