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Internationally known horn player takes professorship at music school

From a pig farm in western Canada to the bright lights of Broadway, Jeff Nelsen's French horn talent has taken him all over the world. Now the internationally known horn virtuoso has taken a position as an associate professor of music at IU's Jacobs School of Music. Nelsen is currently a visiting associate professor in the school, and he said spending time in this role made the decision to take the faculty position easy.

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Police display fake art pieces at exhibition to warn London dealers

Hark, hear the guitars!

Noon Talks offer art museum insight

IU grad named director of Indiana Arts Commission

One of IU's own graduates has been appointed executive director of the Indiana Arts Commission, and he has big plans for making the commission more accessible.

I fought Black Friday, and I won

Everyone has a time of year that's special to them. For some, it's Restless Leg Syndrome Education & Awareness Week; for others, it's Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month. Well, this weekend was my special time.

Center may expand senior art options

Plans are in the works for a Bloomington center where senior citizens can stay active in the arts. On Nov. 19, the director for the National Center for Creative Aging, a New York-based initiative to create arts programming for older adults nationwide, Susan Perlstein, held a workshop at the John Waldron Arts Center to launch a local chapter of the Center for Creative Aging. She presented examples of work that senior citizens have done in creative aging centers around the country.

Jacobs School of Music makes 10 sound investments

The fingers of some of the finest piano students have new reason to tickle the ivories: The Jacobs School of Music has added 10 new Steinway & Sons pianos to its collection. Unlike years past, these pianos are not on loan but were purchased after the school's loan plan with Meridian Music fell through in July.

Music school offers podcasts of student performances in video, audio online

The IU Jacobs School of Music recently inaugurated a free podcasting service from the school's Web site.

Coats of injustice

In 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal. This was one of the most crucial elements of American democracy, created back when our nation was an emaciated baby with a big head. (But not cute like TomKat's or Brangelina's baby. Probably more like what I imagine Conan O'Brien and Calista Flockhart's pilgrim love-child would look like.)

'Un-skateable' artwork on display

Boxcar Books and Youth Mural Arts after-school program at Rhino's Youth Center & All-Ages Music Club are working together to put on an art display of old, unusable skateboards.

Despite rain, all ages turn out for Bread Fest

Rain did not keep people away from the Community Justice and Mediation Center's second annual Bread Fest at the Monroe County History Center Wednesday night. After all, it snowed last year, Community Justice & Mediation Center board member Wain Martin said.

Memorial service to honor former IU Art Museum director

To commemorate the life of Thomas T. Solley, the former director of the IU Art Museum, there will be a memorial service Friday at 4 p.m. in the IU Art Museum's Thomas T. Solley Atrium. The event is an open memorial service for Solley, who died at his home in Switzerland on April 8 of this year.

Trio hoping 'True Story' will be success

When describing his band's method of writing new music, junior Zach "Teddy" Jones said they just "noodle" with it. Jones, a saxophonist, is part of the trio True Story, along with guitarist and vocalist Owen Stevenson, a junior, and drummer Eric Mannweiler, a sophomore.

Courbet exhibit in Maryland spotlights painter's innovations

BALTIMORE -- When Gustave Courbet painted "The Stream of the Puits Noir," or black well, he emphasized the noir. The picture is drenched in black to the point of near-abstraction. It offers a primordial view of nature, yet it's more seductive than foreboding. "Courbet and the Modern Landscape," an exhibition on display at the Walters Art Museum, makes the case for Courbet (1819-1877) as a radical. Best known for his realist, figural pictures such as "Burial at Ornans," Courbet churned out countless landscapes in his late career, but many of them were painted by assistants with only a brief touchup by the master.

Famed conductor will join Jacobs faculty in fall 2007

The IU Jacobs School of Music recently confirmed the appointment of renowned conductor Leonard Slatkin to the School of Music faculty, continuing its long tradition of attracting the music world's greatest talent to teach its students. Though the announcement was made last month, the excitement has yet to die down. "We're overjoyed," conducting professor David Effron said. "He's done so much for American repertoire, and he's a terrific teacher."

In it for kicks

Iuri Santos pulled back his long dreadlocks and wordlessly chose a partner from the row of performers playing a lively beat on several instruments. He silently delegated the switching of instruments from the chosen opponent to another member still playing music, then, along with his partner, knelt in front of the others and performed a set of synchronized prayer-like movements. Santos and his partner faced each other and touched palms before breaking away and beginning their competition.