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The spring 2009 edition of IU Music is now online. The feature story focuses on early music instruction for elementary school students.
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2009 IU Summer Music Festival: Weiss-Kaplan-Newman Trio and Friends
June 28, 4 p.m., Merrill Hall, 1201 E. Third St., 003, Bloomington -- This concert will feature Yael Weiss, piano; Mark Kaplan, violin; and Clancy Newman, cello, with Sarah Kapustin and Zoe Martin-Doike, violin; Atar Arad and Mary Persin, viola; and Peter Lloyd, double bass. Works by Mendelssohn.
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Teen strings players, IU Virtuosi, on concert tour of France
The Virtuosi, a collection of nine young violinists, violists and cellists in the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music's Pre-College String Academy, left May 25 to perform a series of concerts across France through June 8. Members of this year's group, who perform both as soloists and as an ensemble, include violinists Brian Allen, 15; Alex Ayers, 18; Zoe Martin-Doike, 19; and Stephanie Zyzak, 15; violinists/violists Sangwoo Kim, 18; Ren Martin-Doike, 17; and Daniel Wunderle, 18; cellists Nathan Vickery, 17, and Jacobsen Woollen, 16; and pianist Jayoung Kim, a doctoral student of Distinguished Professor Menahem Pressler.
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The annual Writers' Conference at Indiana University Bloomington, now celebrating its 69th year, will welcome eight nationally renowned writers to Bloomington June 14-19 for a weeklong festival of classes, workshops and readings. This year's conference faculty includes poets Thomas Lux and David Trinidad; novelist Julia Glass; Aracelis Girmay, a poet and author of fiction and essays; short-story writers Manuel Muñoz and Danit Brown; fiction writer Alyce Miller; and Tom Chiarella, fiction editor for Esquire Magazine.
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Indiana University's Brown County Playhouse season opens June 11 with The All Night Strut!, an energy-charged musical for all ages showcasing some of the most popular, upbeat songs from the 1930s and 1940s, including "Chattanooga-Choo-Choo," "In the Mood," "Operator," "A Fine Romance" and "Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar." The All Night Strut! was conceived and originally directed and choreographed by Fran Charnas with music and lyrics by legendary American songwriters.
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To kick off the summer traveling season, the Lilly Library at Indiana University's Bloomington campus opened an exhibition Tuesday featuring collections relating to early automobiles and motor cars. "Are We There Yet? The Age of the Automobile" showcases vintage catalogs, books and materials featuring topics ranging from luxury roadsters to the first Indianapolis 500. The exhibition runs through Sept. 5.
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The Euclid Quartet, ensemble in residence at the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts at IU South Bend, has been awarded a $7,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts as part of the "American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius" initiative. The quartet's proposal was one of 33 awarded across the country, the only one awarded in Indiana and the first National Endowment grant awarded to an entity at the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts.
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A collection of watercolor murals discovered in the attic of an Indianapolis business in the 1960s are currently on display at the IU Art Museum, in the Gallery of the Art of the Western World, through August. The four watercolors, painted by by "Hoosier Group" artist Otto Stark, were installed in conjunction with Bloomington and Bedford's annual Limestone Month celebrations in June.
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An Indiana University graduate student's original online video game series, GameZombie.tv, is a Webby Awards Honoree for the second year in a row. Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times, the Webby Awards honor excellence on the Internet, including Web sites, interactive advertising, online film and video and mobile Web sites. Entries are judged by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. Fewer than 15 percent of entrants were deemed Official Honorees.
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In the May 21, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on John Passafiume, a recent School of Fine Arts graduate whose thesis project has earned him multiple awards and international recognition; an IU associate professor of photography, Osamu James Nakagawa, who was honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete his work on images of the "suicide cliff" in Okinawa, Japan; The Kinsey Insitute's 2009 Juried Art Show; Jacobs Professor Menahem Pressler's lifetime achievement award for the Beaux Arts Trio from The Edison Foundation; an IU graduate whose acting career has taken her from TV's "24" to the big-screen, with Twilight; the lineup for this year's Summer Music Festival, which includes the collegiate premiere of The Light in the Piazza; and IUPUI metadata librarian Kristi Palmer, named one of Library Journal's "Movers & Shakers" of 2009.
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The IU Bloomington Web site has debuted a new look. The new site contains information for students, faculty, staff and alumni, as well as a new and improved campus photo tour. In addition to favorite components of the current site -- such as the A-Z Big List, news and events sections, and both topical and audience navigation -- the new site includes more photography, video as a regular feature, and will be integrated with IU's emergency communication system. Explore the site now.
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