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College premiere of Bolcom's "A Wedding" marks season of firsts for IU Opera and Ballet Theater

Indiana University Opera and Ballet Theater, which has staged a number of world premiere performances in recent years, will add to its list of firsts during its 2007-2008 season, announced March 5. The upcoming season at the IU Jacobs School of Music features the nation's first collegiate performance of the opera A Wedding by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom, who has commissioned IU Opera Theater for two previous collegiate premieres.  Full Story

 Undergrads debut in "Big Love"

Big Love

The Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center at Indiana University Bloomington is proud to present Big Love, a beautiful romance created from the mind of one of the America's most treasured avant-garde artists, Charles Mee. The talented players in Big Love consist of many majors from the Department of Theatre and Drama. These undergraduate actors and actresses have performed in theaters around the world and bring a wealth of knowledge and talent to the stage.

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 The IU Art Museum hosts 2007 MFA exhibitions

Jeff Hanson

From oil paintings depicting dreamlike elements of Americana to sculptural spiders, the work of IU's Master of Fine Arts candidates reveals a variety of unique talent. The Indiana University Art Museum celebrates the flourishing talents of a new group of Master of Fine Arts candidates from IU Bloomington's Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts through a series of special exhibitions that are free and open to the public. Presented in three consecutive group shows, these events not only recognize these talented students' years of study, but also allow the Bloomington community one last opportunity to view their works before they embark on their professional careers.

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 Shakespeare Off the Page

Shakespeare - Kokomo

When Terri Bourus held one of the two extant copies of the original 1603 quarto of Hamlet for the first time, she cried. Her reaction, according to the curator at the British Library, was not unusual, but her journey to a career as a significant Shakespeare scholar has been anything but ordinary.

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 IU East Professor explores Richmond's downtown explosion story in film

Richmond explosion

At 1:47 in the afternoon on April 6, 1968, a spark triggered an explosion of natural gas under the Marting Amrs store at the corner of Sixth and Main streets in downtown Richmond, Ind. The explosion triggered a secondary explosion of gunpowder inside the store. Together, the explosions claimed the lives of 41 people, injured nearly 150, destroyed more than 120 buildings, and changed the face of downtown Richmond and the lives of nearly everyone in the closely knit community forever. The story has never been comprehensively captured in one place -- until now -- thanks in part to an IU East professor.

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 Inuzuka installs fantastic ceramic world at IU Kokomo Gallery

Inuzuka art

Shapes from animal and plant life, from nature and from fantasy, overlap in the art installations of Sadashi Inuzuka, the featured artist at the Indiana University Kokomo Art Gallery. The Japanese-born Inuzuka creates hundreds of individual earthenware forms and arranges them in large installations, expressing his "endless wonder at the world in which we live." His current works focus on ecological imbalance and the impact of pollution or invasive non-native species on local habitats.

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 Previous issue

Cat in the Hat

In the March 2, 2007, edition of Live at IU, celebrate the Cat in the Hat's birthday. Also highlighted in this issue are stories about: the art and technology of healing music, a look at the Jacobs School of Music's past year, a preview to the Ed Paschke exhibit at the Herron School of Art and Design, thoughts on the library of the future, and an IU professor's submission to the Society of Illustrators' 49th annual exhibition.

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