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Take a look back at the excitement of 2007 at the Jacobs School of Music with the latest edition of IU Music.
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Light Totem at the IU Art Museum extended through May 2008
Now through May, in front of the Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington -- Heidi Gealt, director of the Indiana University Art Museum, announced that Light Totem, the outdoor light sculpture that splashes waves of color onto the museum's massive exterior wall, will remain active through May 2008. The Light Totem comes to life every evening at dark in front of the Indiana University Art Museum, 1133 E. 7th Street. The Indiana University Art Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., and Sunday from noon until 5 p.m. The Art Museum is closed on Mondays and major holidays. All exhibits are free and open to the public.
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You are all permitted and encouraged to laugh!
"You are all permitted and encouraged to laugh!" This is the declaration of Pulitzer-prize winning composer William Bolcom, who warns audiences attending his latest opera, A Wedding, not to take it too seriously. The opera, which opens Feb. 1 at Indiana University's Musical Arts Center, portrays an all-American train wreck of a wedding in which everything that can go wrong, does. Sung in English with English supertitles, it is the third of Bolcom's operas to have its collegiate premier at Indiana University.
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More than 100 works of art by renowned artist Karl Wirsum will be on exhibit at the Eleanor Prest Reese and Robert B. Berkshire Galleries now through March 1. Karl Wirsum: winsome works(some) opened recently at the Herron School of Art and Design. The exhibit celebrates the work of one of the most revered artists in Chicago.
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This year's Middle Eastern Arts Festival again will feature a vivid array of music and dance from the region, as well as exhibits, museum events and presentations by artists and scholars. Most festival events, which run from Feb. 4 through April 20, require no admission fee. All are open to the public.
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When playwright Mary Zimmerman's award-winning Metamorphoses opens at the Indiana University Bloomington Wells-Metz Theatre on Feb. 1, some of Ovid's greatest myths will be transformed for the stage. Zimmerman's gifts for storytelling and theatricality shine in this deeply affective retelling of, among others, Midas, Eros and Psyche, Narcissus, and Phaeton and his therapist.
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Adorned in full dress uniform, complete with kilt and bearskin cap, The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and The Band of the Coldstream Guards will bring the music, pomp and pageantry of the Scottish Highlands to the IU Auditorium on Jan. 31 at 8 p.m.
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In the African American Dance Company, dancers don't just learn history, they embody it. African American Dance Company performers turn their bodies into a medium for expressing emotions, spiritual states, and social and historical conditions.
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In The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd, IU Professor Emeritus of History Alexander Rabinowitch shows how the hardening of authoritarian rule in Russia in 1917-18 resulted from struggles to defend the October 1917 Revolution against continual crises, not primarily from hard-line ideology.
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The Jan. 3, 2008, issue of Live at IU reviewed a modern dance performance at Indiana University Bloomington. Also highlighted in this issue were stories about a collection of rare harps at IU, 10 tips on becoming "fearless," a Q&A with IU Press Director Janet Rabinowitch, updates on the restoration of IU's stabiles, a discussion with IU Distinguished Professor Scott Russell Sanders, and a new book that marks the 60th anniversary of India's democracy.
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Join fellow Hoosiers for the annual Higher Education Statehouse Visit and Life Science Day on Wednesday, Feb. 13, in Indianapolis. Visit with legislators, view exhibits from IU's life-science disciplines, and hear remarks from IU President Michael A. McRobbie and IU Executive Vice President and Bloomington Provost Karen Hanson.
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