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Music
Department that offers advanced programs of study in the creation, performance, and study of music
March 2012
January 2012
Todd Decker, assistant professor of music, has received the 2012 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Best First Book Award for Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz. The book was...
September 2011
American Arts Experience—St. Louis program to feature works by Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Schumann and Wolf Baritone Sidney Outlaw and pianist Carol Wong will present a Liederabend at Washington...
July 2011
From the Wall Street Journal review, written by Will Friedwald, author of A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers:
[Fred] Astaire (1899-1987) couldn't...
June 2011
Todd Decker (Assistant Professor of Musicology)
Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz
University of California Press
Decker argues with convincing evidence that Fred Astaire's work...
June 2011
Ward Stare and Nicole Aldrich take batons this fall Ward Stare will conduct the Washington University Symphony Orchestra. The Department of Music in Arts &...
June 2011
Jeffrey Kurtzman, PhD, professor of music in Arts & Sciences, was been named an Honorary Life Member of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music at its annual business meeting April 9 in...
