Music camp prepares students for auditions
High school students at Jacobs School of Music's College Audition Preparation Workshop take private lessons, attend classes with graduate students and learn how to combat audition-day jitters.
High school students at Jacobs School of Music's College Audition Preparation Workshop take private lessons, attend classes with graduate students and learn how to combat audition-day jitters.
The Different Drummer Belly Dancers of Bloomington add a new style to the art by combining the traditions of the dance with modern music styles.
Making a fetish out of dying young and turning the dead into some sort of martyr is one of the most loathsome aspects of rock ‘n’ roll mythology.
Jay-Z is a hip-hop style icon. Wiz Khalifa performs in skinny jeans. Lupe Fiasco films music videos wearing oversized sunglasses. And the three of them have all placed clothing orders at Bloomington street wear clothing boutiques.
The title for Bloomington’s Battle of the Bands is slightly misleading. While indeed there are bands competing every Tuesday night this summer at the Bluebird, the onstage rivalry takes a backseat to creating friendships with other bands.
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Andrew Crowley shares a bit of personal music wisdom.
The Jacobs School of Music’s summer Festival Orchestra series performs its second show of the summer this week under the direction of guest conductor Bramwell Tovey.
From Friday to Sunday, Chicago’s Union Park was engulfed in clouds of smoke and dust, home to three stages and a sea of booths that entertained festival-goers.
Kayleen Cohen lives her Chicago experience vicariously through literature.
This weekend’s production is “The Comedy of Errors” by William Shakespeare. The Festival Theatre program itself is brand new this summer, as these kinds of productions had previously been performed in Brown County.
In a recent study, IU assistant telecommunications professor Andrew Weaver discovered as the percentage of minority actors in a film went up, white interest in seeing the film went down.
Andrew Crowley pleads with Hollywood not to ruin the zombie.
Following “The Music Man,” which was the first show ever for IU’s Indiana Festival Theater, William Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors” will open July 13 as the theater’s second production of the summer.
It started with oranges, piles and piles of oranges pouring out of a fridge. At least, the name did. The Main Squeeze, recently one of Bloomington’s more buzzed-about bands, found its moniker in a dream, when the band’s now-former drummer had one that he was thirsty.
Kayleen Cohen vicariously chronicles her travels using some of her favorite literature.
Andrew Crowley breaks down the likelihood of the Beatles' frontman's potential Republican tendencies.