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Get in the holiday spirit with the 'Chimes of Christmas'
One of the surest signs that Christmas is on the way in Bloomington is "Chimes of Christmas," an Indiana University holiday tradition presented by the Jacobs School of Music annually at IU Auditorium. This event is one of the most popular of Bloomington's holiday celebrations and showcases a wide variety of traditional Christmas songs and spirituals. "Chimes" will feature all 125 members of the Grammy-nominated Singing Hoosiers, conducted by Michael Schwartzkopf. The program also will feature the IU Vocal Jazz Ensemble, conducted by Christopher Ludwa; the IU Wind Ensemble, conducted by Stephen W. Pratt; and the IU Trombone Choir, conducted by Carl Lenthe.
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IU alum Phillip Hoose wins 2009 National Book Award for book on unsung civil rights hero
Award-winning author Phillip Hoose, a 1971 Indiana University alumnus, was named the 2009 National Book Award winner in the category Young People's Literature on Nov. 18 at a ceremony on Wall Street for his book Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice. Other winners included Colum McCann (Fiction); Gore Vidal (Distinguished Contribution to American Letters); Keith Waldrop (Poetry) and Dave Eggers (Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community).
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IU Distinguished Professor Menahem Pressler received an honorary citizenship Nov. 22 from his hometown of Magdeburg, Germany, which he fled to escape the Nazis in 1939.
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On a sunny fall day in early November, a group of 10 students from Edgewood Middle School arrived at Indiana University's Visitor Information Center ready to experience a day in the life of an IU student. The junior high students were part of a shadowing program conceptualized by IU undergraduate Savanah Franklin, a Visitor Information Center employee.
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Opening Dec. 4 at 8 p.m. in the Musical Arts Center is IU Ballet Theater's annual production of The Nutcracker. The production will feature choreography created specifically for the Jacobs School's dancers by Michael Vernon, chair of the Jacobs School of Music Ballet Department.
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Ken Weitzman is an award-winning playwright and former documentary and TV writer whose plays cover topics ranging from baseball history to Jewish mysticism. Amy Cook is a director and researcher specializing in the intersection of cognitive science and theories of performance with a special interest in contemporary productions of Shakespeare. Indiana University's Department of Theatre and Drama hired both members of the married couple in 2008. Here, Live at IU talks with Weitzman, a visiting professor who directs the department's playwriting program, and Cook, an assistant professor, about their inspirations, their creative processes -- and even their "meet cute" story.
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Beating out thousands of entries, Suzanne Rumsey, assistant professor of English and linguistics at IPFW, has won the grand prize in Cooking Light's Ultimate Reader Recipe Contest. She received a monetary award, and her Greek Chicken and Barley Salad recipe will appear in the January/February 2010 issue of the magazine.
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Fair Trade Bloomington and the School of Fine Arts Gallery will offer holiday sales this month at IU Bloomington. Fair Trade Bloomington, a nonprofit organization created by IU's Students in Free Enterprise organization (SIFE), will host its fifth annual International Fair Trade Market today (Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Frangipani Room at the Indiana Memorial Union. The SoFA Gallery will present its annual holiday sale, this year titled "Silent Night: A Holiday Art Sale and Auction," Dec. 10-11.
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In the Nov. 19, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured a story on IU Jacobs School of Music faculty member Joshua Bell's recent accolade -- being named Instrumentalist of the Year by Musical America. Also featured were stories on the Bloomington-based band South Jordan; the Department of Theatre and Drama's presentation of Parenthesis of Blood; the Brown County Playhouse opening its doors to the Little Nashville Express Band in the wake of a devastating fire; survey results indicating that alcohol abuse is down at the IU Bloomington campus; a profile about an AmeriCorps volunteer; and an IUPUI professor's new book making it to the Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2009 list.
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