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Read the latest issue of Indiana University's Teaching & Learning Magazine magazine.
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Visit the WIUX student radio Web site to hear podcasts of live studio performances.
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Chuck Mangione to appear at The Ogle Center: Feb. 17, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., The Ogle Center, IU Southeast, New Albany -- Chuck Mangione is a flugelhorn player who achieved international success with his jazz-pop single Feels So Good in 1977. A graduate of Eastman School of Music, he has released more than 30 albums in the last 50 years. In 1980, his song Give It All You Got was the theme of the Winter Olympic Games. Tickets are $20 and $25.
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Technology and the Arts: ArtsWeek 2007
Whether stretching the boundaries of traditional craftsmanship through 3-D computer design and rapid prototyping or designing a computerized accompaniment system to enhance the musician's experience, Indiana University Bloomington and the city of Bloomington artists, performers and researchers increasingly are finding unusual ways to integrate new technologies into their creative works. The creative melding of the arts and technology, which has impacted such traditional arts at IUB and the city of Bloomington as dance, fine arts, music and theatre, will be the focus of ArtsWeek 2007, the annual campus-community celebration of the arts. This year's celebration will be held from Feb. 21 to March 3.
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How do you improve upon something that's already so perfect? That was the challenge Arri Simon confronted when, during his freshman year at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, his music composition master class was assigned to set a segment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s legendary "I Have a Dream" speech to music. In what would be a dream scenario for many composers, Simon's resulting piece, written to complement the magical nature of King's words, will be performed by two-time Grammy Award-winning soprano Sylvia McNair on Tuesday (Feb. 20) in Atlanta.
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Are you ready to make some noise?! For his latest project, Sound Garden, which will be open to the public during the annual ArtsWeek celebration at Indiana University Bloomington, composer and self-described "sound artist" Norbert Herber is giving YOU a chance to contribute to a unique, interactive musical composition. A former jazz saxophone player, Herber envisions Sound Garden as a satisfying jazz performance, where each contributor works together to make great music. He says, "I'd like the interaction of Sound Garden to adopt this quality, where everyone who participates works to tend the garden, leading it in interesting musical directions over the course of the next few weeks."
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Acclaimed Shakespearean actor and director Henry Woronicz, who will guest direct the upcoming production of Twelfth Night at the Indiana University Department of Theatre and Drama, brings with him a wealth of insights into Shakespeare's most successful comedy. In this interview, he discusses why Shakespeare's work is so appealing and enduring and what the Bard was attempting to tell us at the time he wrote the play. There is joy in the play, and yet it is "tinged with a level of reality," Woronicz says, adding that "at the heart of Twelfth Night is a knowing smile. Time to grow up."
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The American Museum of Natural History's Margaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival -- the premiere showcase for independent cultural documentaries in the United States -- will be rolling in Bloomington from Feb. 23 through March 4. The series is free and open to the public, and Bloomington is the only city in the state to host this year's festival. Several titles were selected from the annual Mead Festival in New York to travel to selected venues -- including Bloomington -- bringing innovative non-fiction work to communities across the U.S. The films are grouped by program themes and encompass a broad spectrum of work from indigenous community media to experimental nonfiction.
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The Indiana University Southeast Theatre Department will perform Bus Stop -- a Pulitzer Prize winning play written by William Inge. Michael Morris, visiting assistant professor of theatre, will direct. Morris describes Bus Stop as an American classic and "a romantic comedy with serious overtones." Some may be familiar with the 1956 movie version of Bus Stop, starring Marilyn Monroe and Don Murray and directed by Joshua Logan. IU Southeast's production of Bus Stop will not include the cross-country elements of the movie, but instead will center on the lives and drama of the stranded travelers brought together at the bus stop.
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The Feb. 1, 2007, issue of Live at IU, highlights Indiana University Bloomington's celebration of Black History Month, which opened Feb. 1 with the dedication of a new painting of Martin Luther King Jr. at the IU Art Museum. The feature "Consumers and Evolutionary Design," takes a look at IPFW design professor Richard Nelipovich's quest to help people think in new ways about their belongings by stretching his creative boundaries. Also included in this issue are previews of the Middle Eastern Festival, the Native American film festival, the production Side Man, and IU Opera Theater's Arlecchino and Too Many Sopranos.
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