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Eye on UMSL: 40 years of impact
Eye on UMSL: 40 years of impact

UMSL’s Bridge Program kicked off its 40th year providing guidance and support for local high school students as they prepare to make their college choices.

Eye on UMSL: 40 years of impact

UMSL’s Bridge Program kicked off its 40th year providing guidance and support for local high school students as they prepare to make their college choices.

Eye on UMSL: 40 years of impact

Sep 22, 2025

UMSL’s Bridge Program kicked off its 40th year providing guidance and support for local high school students as they prepare to make their college choices.

UMSL in Motion: Acting out the larynx
UMSL in Motion: Acting out the larynx

Music students in Assistant Professor Bethany Worrell’s class built a larger-than-life model of the larynx and demonstrated how it works to produce sounds.

UMSL in Motion: Acting out the larynx

Music students in Assistant Professor Bethany Worrell’s class built a larger-than-life model of the larynx and demonstrated how it works to produce sounds.

UMSL in Motion: Acting out the larynx

Sep 18, 2025

Music students in Assistant Professor Bethany Worrell’s class built a larger-than-life model of the larynx and demonstrated how it works to produce sounds.

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Rapper Common to bring his message to UMSL

Rapper Common to bring his message to UMSL

Mar 27, 2012

It’s not very often a rap star gets invited to a university to talk about his life. That’s about to happen at 7 p.m. April 3 when Common, known as the King of Conscious Hip Hop, appears at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of Missouri–St. Louis

A 4-letter reason why St. Louis doesn’t suck

A 4-letter reason why St. Louis doesn’t suck

Mar 19, 2012

Provocative headline, eh? It’s actually borrowed, slightly modified, from a December article in Forbes Magazine (“St. Louis Doesn’t Suck”). Forbes Writer Aaron Perlut, tired of the media dissing his adopted hometown, laid out a great case for all the good things about the city, from affordable housing and a strong employment base to rich cultural activities and a collection of outstanding education resources.

Music great Herbie Hancock to play Touhill

Music great Herbie Hancock to play Touhill

Mar 16, 2012

Herbie Hancock is more than five decades into his genre-defying career as an acclaimed pianist, bandleader and composer. He’s won 12 Grammy Awards and an Oscar for scoring “Round Midnight.”

Lisa Ling highlights Women’s History Month

Lisa Ling highlights Women’s History Month

Mar 8, 2012

Noted journalist and TV host Lisa Ling has traveled the world for the last decade reporting on violence in all its forms and the devastating effects it has on humanity. She often focuses on women and children – bride burning in India, gang rape in the Congo, child trafficking in Ghana. She is also well known for her role from 1999 to 2002 as co-host of the daytime television talk show “The View.”

Joffrey Ballet to stage sensual works at Touhill

Joffrey Ballet to stage sensual works at Touhill

Mar 8, 2012

The Joffrey Ballet will flex its muscles as one of the world’s most illustrious dance companies when it performs this weekend at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. The performances, presented by Dance St. Louis and Wells Fargo Advisors will begin at 8 p.m. March 9 and 2 and 8 p.m. March 10 in the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at UMSL.

St. Louis Jazz Orchestra pays tribute to Stan Kenton

St. Louis Jazz Orchestra pays tribute to Stan Kenton

Feb 29, 2012

Innovative, sometimes controversial and unquestionably influential, Stan Kenton made an inimitable mark on big band jazz. As The New York Times noted, “Mr. Kenton was the last major jazz band leader to emerge from the Big Band Era of 1934-45, and his was one of only a handful of bands that survived when that era came to an end.”

Arianna String Quartet to premiere new work at Touhill

Arianna String Quartet to premiere new work at Touhill

Feb 23, 2012

The centerpiece for the third Arianna String Quartet concert this season will be the world premiere of David Stock’s Quartet No. 9. Stock wrote the work for the Arianna, the resident quartet at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. The composition will be performed during the concert “Arianna String Quartet: World Premiere” at 8 p.m. March 2 at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at UMSL.

Opera Theatre to present ‘The Elixir of Love’

Opera Theatre to present ‘The Elixir of Love’

Feb 16, 2012

Cap off the month of love with a musical about, what else…love.

The University of Missouri-St. Louis’ Opera Theatre will stage a two-day run of Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti’s “The Elixir of Love,” at the end of February. The opera is one of the genre’s most delightful gems and promises to be an intoxicatingly fun evening of musical seduction.

Musical trio Silver Roots to perform at Touhill

Musical trio Silver Roots to perform at Touhill

Feb 12, 2012

The Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center will be infused with a mix of traditional and classical music from both Japan and the western world Feb. 18 as the internationally-known trio Silver Roots takes the stage. The concert, “Silver Roots: Japan Meets World” is part of the International Studies Performing Arts Series at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

Puppeteers to present provocative improv at Touhill

Puppeteers to present provocative improv at Touhill

Feb 9, 2012

The skillful art of puppetry will collide with comedic intelligent nonsense for the St. Louis debut of Henson Alternative’s “Stuffed and Unstrung.” The live and uncensored show is known for its provocative elements of comedic stage improvisation – with puppets. The Miskreant Puppets, that is.

Quartet celebrates century of playing

Quartet celebrates century of playing

Feb 6, 2012

The Pro Arte Quartet has survived two world wars and a trans-Atlantic move en route to becoming the oldest string quartet in continuous existence. The ensemble is in the midst of celebrating its centennial in 2012 that will include a University of Missouri–St. Louis performance at 8 p.m. Feb. 10 in the E. Desmond and Mary Ann Lee Theater at the Blanch M. Touhill Performing Arts Center.

Eye on UMSL: I’m flying

Eye on UMSL: I’m flying

Nov 7, 2011

UMSL students Ally Wolf (left) and Belicia Beck rehearse a part of the “Scary Dance” while Rob Scoggins (right),...

Jazz ensemble, military band to share Touhill stage

Jazz ensemble to perform standards

Nov 2, 2011

Start your November off right with a concert by the University of Missouri–St. Louis Jazz Ensemble at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8...

ASQ plus 2 to perform at Touhill

ASQ plus 2 to perform at Touhill

Oct 24, 2011

When the opportunity to perform with two members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra presented itself, the Arianna...

MADCO to ‘Exercise Imagination’ of young people

MADCO to appear on HEC-TV Live

Sep 19, 2011

HEC-TV will profile Modern American Dance Company, the resident dance company at the University of Missouri–St. Louis,...

MOMIX back by popular demand

MOMIX back by popular demand

Sep 2, 2011

The dancer-illusionists of MOMIX wowed St. Louis audiences when Dance St. Louis presented their “Botanica” in April at...

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