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KU Music expert to speak in French-British film series
LAWRENCE – Colin Roust, associate professor of musicology, is heading to London to introduce the screening of a film scored by the 20th century French composer about whom Roust wrote the first, definitive biography,
Spencer Museum announces 2024 Brosseau Creativity Award recipients
LAWRENCE — The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas has announced the 2024 recipients of the Jack & Lavon Brosseau Creativity Awards.
Pianist Eddie Moore pursues a pure vision
LAWRENCE — Eddie Moore’s new album, “Aperture,” comprises just six songs and 16 minutes of solo piano.
A box of Barnes: Group records all professor’s symphonies
LAWRENCE — Like thespians who refer to “Macbeth” as “the Scottish play,” classical music composers have a superstition about the number of symphonies they may write. Beethoven and Mahler died shortly after completing their respective ninth symphonies.
KU to stage ‘Sweeney Todd,’ opening Feb. 16
LAWRENCE — Before the Broadway national tour begins, a local production of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a Musical Thriller” will explore the psyche of the villain and bring Stephen Sondheim’s brilliant melodies to the community with the help of KU’s Opera and Symphony Orchestr