Early musicians to perform at Festival\nThe annual Bloomington Early Music Festival will take place at 8 p.m. Saturday at Trinity Episcopal Church. The event will feature Ensemble Lipzodes, a five-member ensemble that specializes in the music of the 16th-century Guatemalan church. The ensemble consists of members from IU's Early Music Institute.\nThis exotic group is comprised of voice and early wind instruments, such as shawms and dulcians. The ensemble has recently been selected as a finalist in the Early Music America Medieval and Renaissance music competition and will travel later in the month of October to New York to compete.\nTickets for the event are $10 for regular admission and $8 for students and seniors. For more information, contact Martie Perry at 331-1263. Trinity Episcopal Church is located at 111 S. Grant St.
Cello and trumpet duo to play Saturday\nThe duo of internationally renowned avant improvising artists, Axel Dörner on trumpet and Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, at The Loving Heart Counseling Center, 111. E. Kirkwood Ave. (above Book Corner).\nThe duo is touring in support of their duo CD Object One. Dörner, who recently appeared in Down Beat magazine's Critics' Poll 2004 in the New Star-trumpet category, has performed and recorded on over 30 CDs with world renowned improvising artists. Fredrick Lonberg-Holm is a composer and member of the Guillermo Gregorio Trio, the Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet, XMARSX, and Witches and Devils.\nThe concert is presented by the Bloomington Improvising Artists Series and will open with a 30-minute acoustic and electro/acoustic improv set by the DMC Trio. The trio's members are David Miller on trumpet and electronics, Martin Belcheron on the sax and Chris Rall on the sax.\nAdmission for the BIAS concert is $6 and will start at 7:30 p.m.
Bank One awards BAAC $5,000\nBank One awarded the Bloomington Area Arts Council $5,000 in support of an after-school and weekend arts education program at the John Waldron Arts Center.\nParticipants of the program have to be referred to the BAAC by a classroom teacher, art teacher, school counselor, social worker, judge or probation officer. Course catalogs and applications will be distributed to individuals who work with at-risk youth. \nTuition for classes is $25, a reduction from the usual $100 tuition fee. Students unable to afford the fee will receive a waiver. For more information about the after-school program contact Diana Corrigan at 334-3100 ext. 109.
Famous New York DJ dies at 74\nNEW YORK -- Disc jockey Scott Muni, the gravelly-voiced radio host whose encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll made him "The Professor" to three generations of New York listeners, has died at 74.\nMuni, who spent nearly 50 years on air in the nation's No. 1 radio market, died Tuesday. He had suffered a stroke earlier this year, but the cause of his death was not immediately known. \nMuni's last gig was an hour-long afternoon show on New York's classic rock station Q104.3, where he landed in 1998. He also hosted many nationally syndicated programs during his career, including "Scott Muni's World of Rock" and the Beatles-oriented "Ticket to Ride." He was included in an exhibit on radio personalities at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
