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IU welcomes a new maestro

Following a number of guest appearances at the Indiana University Summer Music Festival, internationally recognized American conductor Leonard Slatkin has decided to make the IU Jacobs School of Music his academic home. The music director of the National Symphony Orchestra and five-time Grammy Award-winner will be named the Arthur R. Metz Foundation Conductor at the Jacobs School. "During the past two summers, I had the pleasure of working with the (IU Summer Music) Festival Orchestra at the university. They so impressed me, as did the dedication of the faculty and staff, that it seemed logical to develop a further association," Slatkin said. "Working with young musicians has always been something at the forefront of my own agenda. The opportunity of teaching, conducting and developing new concepts in music education is something I have been considering for a long time."  Full Story

 An American masterpiece: "The Crucible"

Dan Kremer

Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Theatre and Drama presents one of America's greatest plays and a powerful example of how the theatre reflects and reacts to the society around it. Winner of the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play, The Crucible by Pulitzer Prize-winner Arthur Miller opens in the Ruth N. Halls Theatre on Friday, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m. and continues through Nov. 11 and 13-18. Read more about some of the cast and crew, including accomplished guest actor Dan Kremer, who have joined together to bring this great American masterpiece to Bloomington.

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 Big 'Red' Apple

Menahem Pressler

It's not often that a university from the Midwest has the opportunity to be part of a major event in New York City. To be part of two such events -- that take place on the same day and within hours of each other, nonetheless -- would be a momentous occasion for any institution.

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 Bellydance Superstars

Bellydance Superstars

They've played Lollapalooza and the famed Folies Bergere in Paris, and danced with Regis and Kelly. They've been hailed as the next big dance show phenomenon to follow "Riverdance." Now the Bellydance Superstars -- the world's premier bellydance troupe -- are set to bring their acclaimed dance spectacle to Indiana University Southeast. The troupe, which has performed 375 concerts in 16 countries in just three years, will perform their new "Raqs Carnivale" show at the Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Community Center on Nov. 11 at 8 p.m.

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 Detangling "hair culture"

Hair Art

Althea Murphy-Price is an assistant professor of printmaking at the Indiana University Bloomington School of Fine Arts. Her work has been showcased in several galleries around the nation, including Artforms Gallery in Philadelphia, where she was awarded first prize in 2004 in the annual Emerging Artist Exhibition. For this "artist profile," she writes about her new printmaking work, which explores the various cultural associations, oddities and self-defining characteristics of hair.

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 Showcasing Latino writers

Indiana Review

Throughout its long and illustrious history, Indiana Review, a student-edited journal published biannually with support from the Department of English at Indiana University Bloomington, has dedicated itself to showcasing the talents of emerging and established writers. In recent years, entire issues have been devoted to writers and artists of color and writers and artists of various ethnicities who examine what it's like to live "between cultures." Now in its 28th year of publication, Indiana Review has turned its attention to poetry, fiction and non-fiction written by emerging and established Latina/o writers.

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