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Having received a $40.6 million gift and a new name, the IU Jacobs School of Music is looking toward the beginning of its second century in 2010. During festivities held in November at the Musical Arts Center in Bloomington, the school revisited its illustrious history through this video featuring performance footage of celebrated alumni such as Joshua Bell and interviews with school luminaries such as Charles Webb, David Baker and Sylvia McNair.
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See art from the private collection of John & Norma Thompson on exhibit now through April 2, various times, Herron School of Art and Design galleries, Indianapolis -- Visitors to the Herron Galleries will be treated to a sampling from the private contemporary art collection of John and Norma Thompson. The collection includes the works of African American artists Romare Bearden, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Norman Lewis, Jacob Lawrence, Sam Gilliam, Richard Hunt, Elizabeth Catlett and more.
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Japan-in-America: The Turn of the Twentieth Century
It's an exhibit of artifacts "not meant to be saved" -- old postcards and magazines hidden in attics and sold thoughtlessly at garage sales and flea markets or on the Internet. The artifacts, collected over 13 years of treasure hunting, tell a unique story featured in Japan-in-America: The Turn of the Twentieth Century, a new exhibit opening at Indiana University Bloomington's Mathers Museum of World Cultures on Sunday (April 2). The exhibit highlights America's portrayal of Japan in newly emerging forms of media at a time when Japan's emergence as a global power captivated and troubled the imagination of Americans.
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George Pinney first directed A Chorus Line 17 years ago, in his first year teaching at Indiana University. Several members of the production's cast have gone on to very successful musical theater careers in New York and as members of national and international touring companies. A Tony nominee in 2001 for his choreography of Blast!, Pinney believes that the current group of IU students who will tackle the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical next month at the Lee Norville Theatre and Drama Center, has similar "huge, huge potential for success."
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IU Southeast and the department of Fine Arts will open the annual graduating BFA exhibition on April 11, 2006, with a reception on April 20. The exhibition, entitled "Room 26: Two guys, a girl, and a printmaker," will feature the creative work of Robby Davis, Joe Vance, and Diana Hatchitt all from New Albany, and Kiersten Nash of Louisville.
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In Baghdad, every day is a heartwrenching struggle. The stench of death is in the air and on the streets. Many of the best musicians fled years ago, and the rebuilding process in the wake of Saddam Hussein's fall is an uphill battle. Iraqi native and IU-trained cellist Karim Wasfi is providing hope to the war-torn nation's people through classical music, which he says reminds them of their resilience and ability to survive. "The cello sound is better and more effective than car bombs, assassinations or suicide bombers," he says. Read more about Wasfi, who was recently featured in the New York Times and on MSNBC.com, in this article from the current issue of IU Music.
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In its 30-year history, the New York Baroque Dance Company has been embraced by music and dance lovers worldwide and credited with the revival of 18th-century ballet. Its members have taken steps, literally, to ensure that future generations experience this influential style of dance. As part of that effort to reach out to future generations, the troupe is now partnering with music and dance students at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. It is engaged in a two-week residency at the school, which will culminate with a performance with the IU Baroque Orchestra under the direction of IU violin professor Stanley Ritchie on Sunday (April 2) at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in downtown Bloomington.
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Each spring the Indiana University Art Museum celebrates the graduation of a new group of master of fine arts candidates from IU Bloomington's Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts through a series of special exhibitions. Presented in three consecutive group shows, these events not only recognize these talented students' years of study, but also allow the Bloomington community one last opportunity to view their works before they embark on their professional careers. All of the exhibitions, which are scheduled from now until May 7, will be on view in the museum's Special Exhibitions Gallery.
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"The smallest feline is a masterpiece," wrote Leonardo da Vinci. The biggest cats are, too. That's why the Exotic Feline Rescue Center near Terre Haute, Ind., was founded in the 1990s by Joe Taft, who moved there in 1991 with three big cats: a leopard named Kiki, and a couple of badly abused tigers, BC and Molly. A new collection of photographs taken by Stephen McCloud and published in a new book, Saving the Big Cats: The Exotic Feline Rescue Center, by Indiana University Press is a tribute to Taft's rescue work. McCloud began photographing the big cats, whose number has grown to more than 170, in 2001.
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