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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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Catch The All Night Strut! in Brown County
Now-July 5, Brown County Playhouse, 70 Van Buren St., Nashville, Ind -- The Brown County Playhouse season opens with The All Night Strut!, a classy, sassy musical celebration of the 1930s and '40s. This show soars, sings and struts to the matchless music and dynamic dances of the '30s and '40s, guiding the audience from the Depression through World War II to the post-war boom on waves of blues, jazz, bebop and classic song standards.
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Sisters of the Flying Fountain Pen tap personal creativity through summer camp
The temperature hovers near 90 degrees with 45 percent humidity on this late-June afternoon in Bloomington. Somehow, the Sisters of the Flying Fountain Pen manage to look perfectly comfortable as they leave the cool Hinkle-Garton Farmstead, pass an heirloom garden of flowers and vegetables, and duck a low tree branch to go "back in time" to the 1700s. Today's topic: pioneer women and how they lived. This crop of 15 young women, ranging in age from 8 to 15, are enrolled in the Sisters of the Flying Fountain Pen, a weeklong summer writing and leadership camp for young women.
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Summer is the season for weddings, and Indiana University's Brown County Playhouse opens its second show of the season with the perfectly themed There Goes the Bride, a matrimonial comedy written by Ray Cooney and John Chapman that brings new meaning to the phrase "trouble in paradise."
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Lexical much? In his new book, Slang: The People's Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2009), Indiana University Assistant Professor Michael Adams describes -- and passionately defends -- slang as the creative expression of the every day. The first major work on American slang in nearly a decade, Slang neatly bridges the gap between pop culture and academia with a thorough examination of the ways Americans continually reinvent or combine words to keep language a living, breathing entity.
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Indiana University's 2009 Summer Music Festival will include a diverse series of piano recitals highlighted by a July 3 performance by international soloist and chamber musician Jonathan Biss, who was raised in Bloomington and studied with IU Jacobs School of Music professors Karen Taylor and Evelyne Brancart.
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!["Resurrection [Sound of Trumpets]"](http://newsinfo.iu.edu/pub/libs/images/usr/7146_t.jpg "\"Resurrection [Sound of Trumpets]\"")
Starting July 10, the sultry sounds of jazz will fill the air on four consecutive Friday nights throughout the month when the Indiana University Art Museum hosts its 19th annual Jazz in July summer concert series. Each of the free, open-to-the-public concerts will features some of the top jazz talent in the Midwest, including Offramp, Craig and the Crawdads, Jan Aldridge Clark, Monica Herzig, Carolyn Dutton and Tom Roznowski.
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This summer marks the 25th anniversary of Indiana University's prestigious Jacobs School of Music Summer String Academy, which brings together students and renowned faculty from around the world. Led by Jacobs Professor Mimi Zweig, the Summer String Academy is geared toward serious students ages 12-18 who wish to study violin, viola or cello in an intensive environment.
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Elliott Miles McKinley is passionate about what he does. McKinley, an assistant professor of music at Indiana University East, has been instrumental in developing the music major and minor offered at the university since fall 2009. A recent video featuring the music program and McKinley has been released on the IU East YouTube Web site.
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In the June 18, 2009 issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on the IU Department of Theatre and Drama's Midsummer Theatre Program for aspiring teen actors; Assistant Professor Eden Medina's analysis of Chile's "Project Cybersyn;" a winning ad campaign from IU Office of Creative Services ("Innovate Indiana"); a summer solstice celebration at the IU Art Musuem; the Jacobs School of Music's Summer Music Festival, kicking off with world class chamber music; a project for the IU School of Dentistry by IUPUI's Herron students; and a Juneteenth Freedom Celebration at IU's Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.
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The IU Bloomington Web site has debuted a new look. 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 a new and improved campus photo tour.
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