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The IU Jacobs School of Music now offers podcasts. The audio and video project, found within the school's new "IUMusicLive" Web site, includes performances by violinist Joshua Bell, conductor Michael Stern and the Beaux Arts Trio, and showcases three recent IU Opera Theater productions. This week, two new podcasts were added: a video of Hansel and Gretel and an audio performance by the Symphony Orchestra. An inaugural podcast from the IU Jacobs School of Music is also available at the school's "IUMusicLive" Web site.
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The Department of Kinesiology with the Department of Theatre and Drama premiers "GROW/MOVE/CHANGE," a showcase of innovative, cutting-edge modern dance. Named in part for the 60th anniversary of the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, the program will celebrate growth, movement and change in the field of the arts.
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A holiday 'feast'
The Indiana University Philharmonic Orchestra, the premier orchestral ensemble of the IU Jacobs School of Music, continues IU's Moveable Feast of the Arts series later this month at the historic Embassy Theatre in Fort Wayne, Ind., with a performance that features recently appointed faculty violinist Alexander Kerr. The concert will be held on Dec. 18 at 7 p.m. and marks the second year of the Moveable Feast of the Arts initiative, which is designed to showcase the university's cultural resources to Hoosier communities and IU campuses across the state. Professor of Music David Effron, who will conduct the orchestra, said, "When you are one of the top music schools in the world, it is important to let all geographical areas experience the great talent that we attract to IU."
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Since arriving in Bloomington in August of 2004, Indiana University Bloomington M.F.A. playwright Paul Shoulberg has written six full-length plays, two medium-length one-acts, a handful of 10-minute plays and one screenplay. Such an enormous output in just over two years' time staggers IU Professor of Playwriting Dennis J. Reardon, who remarks, "He's now officially the most prolific playwright I've had in the program in 20 years." The final three performances of Shoulberg's thesis play, Reel, a dark comedy set on a Hollywood film set, can be seen at the Department of Theatre and Drama tonight through Saturday, Dec. 7-9. Shoulberg's calls his writing style "Theatre for the indie-film crowd" and mentions as inspiration for his play the infamous Tom Cruise on Oprah interview.
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It's still technically warm-up time, but Maestro Leonard Slatkin is ready to lead. Slatkin, the world-famous music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, was recently named the Arthur R. Metz Foundation Conductor at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Though he won't begin his involvement at the school until 2007-2008, he already has a strong sense of his teaching 'style' and how he plans to work with the school's aspiring young conductors. "I'm looking for a certain communication level in my students and the ability to communicate what they believe," he says.
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Jessica Alpert, a first-year graduate student in the Indiana University Bloomington Department of History, helped to produce the recently released documentary, Seeing Red: A Journey Through the Moral Divide. The film explores the intersection between faith and politics in America and features interviews with local and national religious leaders and scholars. Evangelical voting culture is a major focus of the film. So far, the documentary has aired at the Boston Film Festival, the ArgusFest Film Festival in Denver and the Dixie Film Festival in Atlanta.
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It's the perfect holiday gift and yet another expression of just how talented the singers who make up Indiana University's Singing Hoosiers are. A critically acclaimed new CD from Maestro Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops orchestra, Christmas Time is Here, features among its widely acclaimed guest artists the Singing Hoosiers, one of America's premier popular music symphonic concert choirs specializing in popular music and the music of Broadway.
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Pieces from the annual Whitewater Valley Art Competition are on display now through Jan. 26 at Indiana University East. Entries for the competition included drawings, paintings, mixed media, photography, printmaking, computer graphics and relief sculpture. IU East announced the winners of the competition on Nov. 29 during a reception for the artists. Each year 300 to 400 pieces of art are entered for the competition. Pamela Franks, curator for the Yale Art Gallery in Connecticut, publicly juried the 29th annual competition.
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It's early October and Mary Hall and her husband, Richard, are at home pulling more than 450 boxes of Christmas decorations from a closet. The Halls have been repeating this October routine for more than 10 years. According to Mary, a bookstore assistant at IU Southeast, it takes "three weeks and almost a divorce," to get all of the decorations in place. Why all the fuss? The Halls are avid collectors of Department 56 Villages "Christmas in the City."
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The Nov. 16 issue highlights how casual art connoissuers can become "print detectives" and uncover a priceless find, the inaugural podcast from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and the return of the fall musical at IU. It also features the continuation of the Moveable Feast of the Arts series, the apocalyptic art of IU fine arts professor Caleb Weintraub and exhibitions by IU Kokomo fine arts lecturers Minda Douglas and Gregory Steel.
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Indiana University's Dance Marathon was recently recognized for its annual fundraiser. The Indiana Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals recognized IU Dance Marathon with a 2006 Philanthropy Award -- "Outstanding Civic Organization." IU Dance Marathon was nominated for the award by Riley Children's Foundation.
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