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(04/09/24 3:35pm)
Welcome to the third episode of "Asking the Artist," the podcast that does what its title astutely states: asks the artist. This week, host Gino Diminich sits down with Courage Barda, an IU sophomore and composition major in the Jacobs School of Music, to discuss their latest composition, tackling serious issues through music and the evolving classical music landscape.
(03/25/24 6:19pm)
The Jacobs School of Music, in partnership with various schools of IU and community organizations, will host “AlgoRhythms: The World of Music and AI,” at various times March 29-30 at seven different locations on and off IU’s campus like Auer Hall and the FAR Center for the Contemporary Arts. The full list of locations can be found on the Jacobs School of Music Innovation website. The event is a two-day summit exploring the changing musical landscape in relation to use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
(03/20/24 9:15pm)
Welcome to the second episode of "Asking the Artist" — the podcast that does what it's title strongly implies — asks the artist. This week, host Gino Diminich sits down with Phil Chan and Doug Fullington. Chan and Fullington are working with the Jacobs School of Music Ballet Theater department to bring a reimagined version of "La Bayadere," a classic yet controversial ballet, to life.
(01/08/24 7:51pm)
As the temperature drops, voices rise, orchestras crescendo and dancers leap across the stage at the Jacobs School of Music. With the new year beginning, those in the IU community can explore the many events the Jacobs School of Music has to offer.
(12/15/23 7:05pm)
Atop a large metal freezer on four wheels sit two small plastic boxes: a red one for napkins and a green one labeled “tips.” Each box shares the same logo: “RASTA POPS,” in bold black lettering, and below it in smaller white lettering, “Brazilian Fusion Ice Pops.” A symbolic Black pride power fist holding a popsicle separates “Rasta” from “Pops”
(12/04/23 8:58pm)
With each changing projection, the audience audibly gasped. With each pirouette, they applauded enthusiastically. For each moment of magic, the adults in the room became children again, awed and enraptured by the beauty brought to life by the Jacobs School of Music Ballet Theater department.
(11/29/23 9:41pm)
As the all too familiar overture begins to swell, the unfamiliar strips of white light framing the stage glow as the purple curtain rises to reveal a swirling snowstorm projected against a sheer curtain. While the snow whips around the large house set in the background, a white owl flies past. The scene is set for a reimagining of perhaps the most well-known title in ballet, “The Nutcracker.”
(11/28/23 7:00pm)
The Bloomington Alternative Media Festival will have their annual festival celebrating independent publishing from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 2 at the Harmony School. The festival is made up of local artists and will feature comics, books and zines.
(11/15/23 10:51pm)
IU senior Louise Kern-Kensler was one of four winners of the 2023-24 Jacobs School of Music Innovation Grant Competition. Kensler was awarded a grant for her in-progress documentary entitled “Breaking the Brass Ceiling.” The project combines her passion for film with her passion for the trombone, exploring the lives, struggles and triumphs of female brass musicians from all walks of life.
(11/14/23 6:43pm)
The Jacobs School of Music will host a concert event featuring the Concert Band, Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble at 8 p.m. Nov. 14 at the Musical Arts Center. The performance will also be streamed on IUMusicLive!
(11/09/23 5:44pm)
Against a dark backdrop beset with stars, the famous balcony scene between Romeo and Juliet unfolds. A scene of love blossoming told in a thousand stories is made transcendently poetic once more on the stage, this time through Charles Gounod’s music.
(11/05/23 9:52pm)
The Jacobs School of Music Opera and Ballet Theater department will present its final opera of the fall season, “Romeo et Juliette,” at 7:30 p.m. with two different casts Nov. 10 and 11 at the Musical Arts Center.
(10/31/23 11:03pm)
“Why” is the question at the center of Freda Love Smith’s newest book, “I Quit Everything”— a difficult question which she acknowledges has no real answer. Smith’s book explores her struggles with addictive behavior, intoxication, and her past musical career.
(10/26/23 11:57pm)
The Jacobs School of Music, in collaboration with the Oratorio Chorus, IU Children’s Choir and Concert Orchestra will present a performance of “Carmina Burana.”
(10/25/23 10:21pm)
As the tuning of the instrumentalists faded, silence fell on Auer Hall. The silence was cut by the raised hands of the conductor, Dominick DiOrio, drawing the elegant harmonies of the chorus from the air, guiding them out to the fixed gazes of audience members that had come to watch NOTUS’ first concert of the semester.
(10/17/23 11:36pm)
A regal count in classical dress swaggers onto stage, posing in a floral archway. He smugly smirks, slyly adjusting the shades on his head, framed with a powdered wig — a comedy of farcical love is underway at the Musical Arts Center.
(10/17/23 9:48pm)
The Jacobs School of Music will present a recital with a new, state-of-the-art technologically innovative piano from instrument manufacturers Steinway & Sons at 7 p.m. Oct. 18 in Ford-Crawford Hall. There will also be a guest performance by acclaimed alumnus Jeremy Denk.
(10/12/23 11:52pm)
A theater building rivaling the Metropolitan Opera, three performance halls, more than three dozen ensembles and over a thousand performances a year — yes that’s all at the Jacobs School of Music.
(10/10/23 8:59pm)
The Jacobs School of Music will present a faculty and guest recital featuring professor of music, Atar Arad and celebrated Jacobs alumni Yuval Gotlibovich, Duncan Steele, Melia Watras and Rose Wollman.
(10/10/23 6:13pm)
The Hoosier Hills Food Bank will host the Bloomington Community Book Fair starting at 9 a.m. and ending at 7 p.m. Oct. 12-13 and 6 p.m. Oct. 14-17 at the Monroe County Fair Grounds. The book fair is made up of community donations and will offer over 100,000 items ranging from rare and collectible books to children's books. It will also sell DVDs, CDs and other forms of media, all for affordable prices.