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Lunchtime Organ Recital. Mark Slawson. Adolphus Busch Hall, 12:15 p.m. Free...
...villagers soon become aware of the scent, the village becomes a carnival and a mythically rich American named Mr. Herbert arrives to solve everyone's problems. Such is the core of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short story, "The Sea of Lost Time," now a dramatic production appearing at Adolphus Busch Hall...
...choice of Adolphus Busch Hall as the venue for the play is a significant and felicitous one. The hall itself supports the director's take on the story. Busch Hall's cavernous stone interior contains the entrance to a cathedral and a lofty balcony from which two putti gaze impishly on the audience below. The cathedral door appears to have been taken from a church in Europe and brought whole to the United States, like the Parthenon friezes taken to England by Lord Elgin. This fact supports the play's and the story's vision of imperialistic thievery, where...
Lessons From a Revolution: The Experience of Czechoslovakia--with Vojtech Cepl, vice dean of Prague's Charles University Law School. At 2:15 p.m. in Adolphus Busch Hall at 27 Kirkland...
...several years museum officials had been concerned that Adolphus Busch Hall's complete lack of a climate control jeopardized the collection's more fragile pieces, such as the paper works and wooden sculptures. Furthermore, the 68 year-old structure was not adequately equipped to provide services for handicapped patrons. Officials considered renovating the old building but soon realized costs would be too high. Thus, they made plans to construct a new building to display the collection...