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The December 2008 edition of Research at Indiana University features the many anniversaries being celebrated at the Jacobs School of Music.
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The Time Jumpers
Jan. 24, 8 p.m., Ogle Center IU Southeast, New Albany -- The Time Jumpers is a Western Swing Band with two awards from the Association of Western Artists, one from the Western Music Association and two Grammy nominations. This group of Nashville's studio elite has evolved from casual jam sessions at the Grand Ole Opry to performing on the main stage, and becoming the Monday night destination at the Station Inn in Nashville. As a band, they've been sought out to record with artists such as Vince Gill, Amy Grant and John Anderson.
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Chimes of Christmas: A Bloomington holiday tradition
One of the surest signs that Christmas is on the way at Indiana University is the Jacobs School of Music's "Chimes of Christmas," a Bloomington holiday tradition performed annually at IU Auditorium. "Chimes" will be performed Wed., Dec. 10, at 7:30 p.m. and will feature the IU Wind Ensemble, the IU Trombone Choir and all 125 members of the Grammy-nominated Singing Hoosiers. This event is one of the most popular of Bloomington's holiday celebrations and showcases a wide variety of traditional Christmas songs and spirituals.
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Indiana University students will put their best faces -- and fashions -- forward Dec. 12 at Willkie Auditorium when IU's Epiphany Modeling Troupe presents its first major fashion show, "Fashion at the Culture Club." The event is the culmination of efforts by the new group's co-founder and president, Ebony C. Brown, who will graduate from IU this month with degrees in marketing and apparel merchandising.
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Undergraduate design studies students from the Department of Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design created models of homes to display at an early-November breakfast for Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County. AMID Assistant Professor Kennon Smith and Visiting Lecturer Michael Loalbo are team-teaching "Interior Design III --The Dwelling," also known as "Junior Design Studio," a class in which seven groups of three or four students designed seven different styles of homes for a new, 30-home Habitat community.
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Most of the time, Ryan Turton is an IU junior studying telecommunications and sports marketing management in hopes of becoming a sports broadcaster one day. During a recent Halloween taping of Indiana University Student Television's "Hoosier Date," though, Turton was Rod Tidwell, Cuba Gooding Junior's famous "show me the money"-shouting character from the film Jerry Maguire.
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Written well before the tragic events of Sept. 11, the chaos and destruction in award-winning José Rivera's compelling play Marisol keenly focus our memories on that terrible day. Rivera's Oscar-nominated The Motorcycle Diaries -- a film adaptation of Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna's memoirs from a motorcycle journey across South America in the 1950s -- inspired a cult following. With Marisol, Rivera's most frequently staged play, he inspires theatergoers with a message that hope is possible for humanity, even in a broken, disjointed world.
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In April 2007, Indiana University Auditorium created Young Professionals for the Performing Arts (YPPA), a leadership group for arts lovers between the ages of 25 and 45. YPPA is a subset of Circle of Friends, the Auditorium's primary donor group. Its members are active professionals who make individual contributions in support of IU Auditorium.
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The 30th Whitewater Valley Annual Art Competition at IU East not only recognizes artists from across the Midwest, but this year it also celebrates a milestone anniversary. The Gallery is one of the premier visual arts centers for Wayne and surrounding counties.
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In the Nov. 20, 2008, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories about IU Opera Theatre's Love for Three Oranges; a Department of Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design alumnus working at Ralph Rucci; Fair Trade Bloomington's "green" Holiday Bazaar; IU professor emeritus Bruce Cole; a Q-and-A with poet Ross Gay; the Herron School's furniture design curriculum; and the free Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra concert at the Jacobs School of Music.
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IU President Michael A. McRobbie delivered his first State of the University address on Oct. 14, 2008, in the University Place Conference Center Auditorium on the IUPUI campus. In the address, McRobbie, who became IU's 18th president in July 2007, provided an update on the strategic priorities he announced during his 2007 inaugural address. McRobbie reviewed faculty and staff accomplishments and laid out a course for achieving continued and growing excellence in IU's two core missions, education and research. The speech is now available on the Internet in text and video formats.
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