Arts and Humanities
The Indiana University Marching Hundred will be the first college marching band to perform at the new Lucas Oil Stadium when the Indianapolis Colts play their first regular season game this Sunday (Sept. 7) at 8:15 p.m. on national television. The band will take the field during the Colts season opener against the Chicago Bears.
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After a whirlwind tour across Indiana this summer, the bronze sculpture depicting Bloomington's famous jazz composer and songwriter Hoagy Carmichael will come home to rest in a permanent location on Indiana University's campus. The Hoagy Carmichael Landmark Sculpture will be dedicated with a public ceremony at 5 p.m., Sept. 18, in the grand foyer of the IU Auditorium. The dedication coincides with a meeting of the Trustees of Indiana University and is hosted by IU President Michael McRobbie and IU Provost and Executive Vice President Karen Hanson. The 700- to 800-pound sculpture of the Bloomington native, who died in 1981, will rest outside the northeast side of the IU Auditorium, along Jordan Avenue.
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The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature has selected Bloomington resident Scott Russell Sanders, a distinguished professor of creative writing at Indiana University's College of Arts and Sciences, to receive the 2009 Mark Twain Award for his "distinguished contributions to Midwestern literature." Previous winners include Toni Morrison, Ray Bradbury, Jim Harrison, William Maxwell, Wright Morris, Harriet Monroe, Gwendolyn Brooks and Jonis Agee. The award ceremony will take place at the society's annual meeting in East Lansing, Mich., on May 8, 2009, and will feature a panel devoted to Sanders' work.
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Many of the globe's most prominent music figures have chosen the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music as their academic home, amounting to what has been called the single greatest gathering of music faculty anywhere. The Jacobs School is pleased to welcome the latest appointees to this elite roster.
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The Board of Trustees of Indiana University has selected the architects for the internationally acclaimed Jacobs School of Music's new North Studio Building. The building is funded by a $44 million gift from the Lilly Endowment. The North Studio Building, to be built north of the current Music Building Addition (also known as "the round building") on Third Street, will be designed by Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf (BDMD) Architects of Indianapolis and Flad Architects of Madison, Wis. It will accommodate faculty teaching studios as well as music practice rooms, classrooms, offices, rehearsal rooms and graduate student spaces.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas French has accepted an offer to serve on the faculty in the Indiana University School of Journalism, beginning in fall 2009.
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