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Earlier this year, Jeffrey Hass, a professor of composition at the IU Jacobs School of Music, was named the 26th annual recipient of the prestigious ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize. He received the award for his Symphony for Orchestra with Electronics, a 27-minute work in four movements, selected from amongst nearly 250 submissions. Hass is the director of IU Bloomington's Center for Electronic and Computer Music, which trains students in electronic and multimedia composition. He said the award will provide "unique recognition and visibility that will open up many doors for future performances of the work." Listen to the first movement of Hass' 2001
Concerto for Amplified Piano and Wind Ensemble
, which opens with both trumpet and xylophone playing in a style reminscent of Morse code.
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Lick Creek Band to Perform at IU East
June 1, 6 p.m., on the Quad (located outside of Whitewater Hall), IU East campus, Richmond --The 2005-06 Lively Arts Series will conclude with a performance by the Lick Creek Band. The event is free and open to the public. Lick Creek plays a unique brand of "Eclectic Acoustic Music" ranging seamlessly through bluegrass, rock, soul, Latin, zydeco, blues and jazz, all flavored with the sweetness of the traditional acoustic sound. Vocal harmony is the most distinctive feature of the group. Four lead vocalists alternate to present songs in various styles suited to the qualities of their voices while backing each other with four-part harmony. They have played at hundreds of venues throughout Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio for more than 10 years. For more information about this event, please call Matt Marshall at 765-973-8457.
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Giants of science
The competition promises to be highly charged as teams of students work together to complete chemistry experiments, build functioning robots, analyze the physics of music-making and launch projectiles as they "Storm the Castle." These events and many more will be featured in the Science Olympiad National Tournament, which is being held now through Saturday (May 20) on the IU Bloomington campus. The competition is designed to promote and improve student interest in science and to improve the quality of K-12 science education throughout the nation. Learn more about all of the local and Science Olympiad-related activities happening in Bloomington at the tournament's official Web site.
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What happens when a campus decides to host a semester-long celebration of the world's greatest dramatist featuring a weeklong residency of the renowned Actors From the London Stage troupe? You get an experience that many students have called "the most memorable and life-changing" of their college careers, writes IU Kokomo professor Terri Bourus in this first-person account of the "Semester of Shakespeare at IU Kokomo."
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IU Jacobs School of Music alumnus Lawrence Brownlee recently received a call that most emerging world-class singers only dream of -- a call from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation informing him he had been named the 2006 winner of the Richard Tucker Award. Previous winners include some of the world's most renowned opera stars, including Renée Fleming, Paul Groves, Deborah Voigt, Stephanie Blythe and David Daniels.
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The students in David Hertz's class, Beethoven and His Era, look a lot like typical Americans. They don't look like aficionados of classical music, if you think classical music is the province of a staid and elderly elite. Their teacher, though, has no doubt that they will be as captivated as he is by the life and work of the composer who virtually invented the modern practice of classical music. "The barrier between classical and popular culture is not as rigid as people think," says Hertz, a professor of comparative literature at IU Bloomington.
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Indiana University fine arts Professor Margaret Dolinsky is as comfortable commanding a computer in UNIX as she is holding a paintbrush. For more than a decade, her art has involved pushing large quantities of data across great distances, networking supercomputers and creating virtual reality environments. "Drawing and painting remind me of how to do art," she explains, "but once I get started on the computer, my focus and motivation go more in the direction of virtual reality."
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Follow this link for the previous issue of "Live at IU," which featured stories about IU's hot summer arts scene, an intensive course on making Hollywood motion pictures taught by celebrated movie producer and IU alumnus Michael Uslan, and a new collection of short stories by Nepalese-American writer and creative writing professor Samrat Upadhyay.
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Precollegiate programs at IU
As director of the Office of Community and School Partnerships at Indiana University, Mary Tourner fosters partnerships across communities. "I serve as a liaison from the university to the community statewide, connect schools to the university and connect students with postsecondary educational opportunities," Tourner said. To achieve these ambitious goals, Tourner and her staff visit Indiana schools throughout the year, encouraging students to plan ahead for higher education and parents to play an active role in the process. Tourner also relies on help from current IU students, including many students who have graduated from CSP programs. The CSP programs at IU are designed to help enhance the process of college preparation that precedes a successful college experience. Tourner said, "We want to support them, retain them and graduate them. Not many other schools can say the same thing."
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