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The spring 2011 issue of the Jacobs School of Music's IU Music commemorates the school's beginnings with a bold new opera exploring the drama of Vincent van Gogh's private vision and the extremes to which it drove him. Go behind the scenes and discover the process that inspired the creation of this work in homage to one of the greatest artists of all time.
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Indiana University Auditorium's 2011-2012 season includes the most in-demand touring Broadway shows, classical and contemporary musical performances, dance, comedy and holiday traditions. The season begins in September and continues through April, with performances by Tony Award-winning actress Bernadette Peters, a rare stand-up comedy appearance by Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show," the family-friendly Broadway show Shrek the Musical and the comedic genius of Mel Brooks' musical Young Frankenstein.
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"Forever Free: Celebrating Our Freedom, Renewing Our Strength," is the theme of the 13th Annual Juneteenth Freedom Celebration sponsored by the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center at Indiana University Bloomington.
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Indiana University-Purdue University (IPFW) will host RiverFest 2011 on Saturday, June 25, with family friendly entertainment that includes art, music, history, sports, games, water activities and an evening fireworks display. Sponsored by Steel Dynamics, the day of festivities will celebrate Fort Wayne's rivers, one of the area's most prominent natural resources.
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The Indiana University Department of Theatre and Drama announces its upcoming 2011-2012 season at the Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center. Themed "Make Love, Not War," the season presents a series of plays and musicals that explore notions of war and peace, desire and ambition, oppression and liberation and love and sex. The fall semester opens in October with Hair, the original rock musical by Galt MacDermot depicting the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s.
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Two Indiana University Jacobs School of Music composition students, two alumni and one incoming student have been named winners in the 59th Annual BMI Student Composer Awards competition. The Jacobs-affiliated contingent captured five of the total 11 awards that went to young classical composers ranging in age from 14 to 27.
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Jazz pianist and IU Bloomington arts-management lecturer Monika Herzig continually goes the extra mile to develop an audience for her music through touring, recording and outreach. Her most recent project, Come with Me, includes not only a CD with 10 cuts recorded by Herzig and her band, but also a DVD featuring a professionally produced, 25-minute documentary film about the pianist and her music.
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The May 19, 2011 issue of Live at IU featured a top story on IU Bloomington's new Summer Festival of the Arts. In addition were stories on IU Ruth Halls and Distinguished Professor Emerita Susan Gubar's admission to the prestigious American Philosophical Society; the interactive multidisciplinary work PASSION with Tropes, by Jacobs School of Music composer Don Freund; recent IU grauduate Isak Osagyefo Nti Asare's Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship; jazz musician and Jacobs School alum David Sterner on his new CD; Indiana's new poet laureate, IUPUI professor Karen Kovacik; and a Q-and-A with Rick Desloge, a graduate of the Theatre and Drama program now on the touring cast of Wicked.
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Get involved in making IU Bloomington an "edible campus." This initiative demonstrates how sustainability, food security, and environmental quality can be linked through innovative urban design to produce food in a challenging urban setting, demonstrating ways to weave productive planting in urban spaces without diminishing their utility or functionality.
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