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Read the winter 2009 edition of IUPUI Magazine. The issue's theme is "Celebrating 40 Years: From Idea to Impact."
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From Pen to Printing Press: Ten Centuries of Islamic Book Arts
Now-May 10, Special Exhibitions Gallery, first floor, IU Art Museum, Bloomington -- The IU Art Museum is hosting an exhibition of approximately 50 works on paper drawn exclusively from IU collections and on display for the first time. A volume of nine articles produced with full-color illustrations will be published by IU Press to complement the exhibition and to provide a permanent record of IU's rich collections of Islamic art. Both the exhibit and the publication are supported by an Indiana University New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities grant. Along with a Web module, both the show and the book will establish IU as a leader in the scholarly study of Islamic artistic traditions, a field of growing public interest in recent years.
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Jacobs School of Music receives priceless Leonard Bernstein gift
Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music announced the receipt of an unprecedented gift from the family of Leonard Bernstein -- the contents of Leonard Bernstein's Fairfield, Conn., composing studio, including a conducting stool from the Vienna Philharmonic that is said to have been used by Johannes Brahms.
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As Indiana University's Department of Theatre and Drama celebrates its 75th anniversary year (2008-09), the department continues a tradition of professional-level student performances featured in both classic favorites and cutting-edge, contemporary plays. In the upcoming 2009-10 season, modern works such as The Clean House and Take Me Out will be featured alongside Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw, Peter Weiss's riveting Marat/Sade, Congolese playwright Sony Labou Tansi's Parentheses of Blood, and two musicals, including Stephen Sondheim's beautiful A Little Night Music.
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When Jennifer 8. Lee was in seventh grade, she made a startling discovery -- fortune cookies are not an authentic Chinese food. In her New York Times best-selling book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, Lee wrote about the experience. Today (April 2), Lee will talk more about her journey around the world to try different types of Chinese food during her lecture, "How Chinese Food is all-American," in the Indiana University School of Journalism Auditorium.
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The Most Happy Fella has been called musical theater, an operetta and a good old-fashioned opera. When it debuted in 1956, The New York Daily Mirror called it "a masterpiece of our era." No matter how audiences choose to classify Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella, opening April 10 at Indiana University's Musical Arts Center, opera and musical theater fans alike will love the soaring musical scores, rich vocals and subtle humor inherent in this feel-good show, presented by IU Opera Theater.
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Alexander McCall Smith, author of the best-selling serial novels The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The Sunday Philosophy Club, 44 Scotland Street and Portuguese Irregular Verbs, will visit the IU Bloomington campus April 20. He will give a public talk at 5 p.m. in the Whittenberger Auditorium as a guest of the College Arts and Humanities Institute, directed by Andrea Ciccarelli.
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Rodgers and Hammerstein's timeless musical Oklahoma! opens April 17 at Indiana University's Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center, with additional performances April 18 and April 21-25. Considered the quintessential American musical, Oklahoma! tackles class issues between the farmers and the cowmen in the still-developing, rugged landscape of a state in its infancy as characters struggle to find hope, love and the fulfillment of "the American Dream."
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A conference this month at IU East will give faculty, students and the public the opportunity to hear two keynote Victorian speakers and the chance to enjoy a 19th century meal. Attendees will see many of the Victorian sites in Richmond, including the Wayne County Historical Museum and the Gennett Mansion.
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In the March 5, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on the Jacobs School's upcoming spring ballet, featuring Swan Lake and a world premiere of new choreography; legendary author Maya Angelou's visit to IU, an IU Auditorium performance of Mamma Mia!; the university's first-ever World Language Festival for high school students throughout the state; spring exhibitions at the IU Art Museum; and a preview about the Jacobs School's collegiate premiere of The Light in the Piazza, coming to the Musical Arts Center this summer.
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The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center staff knows that thinking about cancer can be worrisome. The good news is that today there are more than 10 million cancer survivors. We are fortunate for scientific advances in the prevention, detection and treatment of cancer, but so much information and research can be hard to understand. Now, there is a Web site to help answer your questions about cancer.
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