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IU Auditorium announces its 2007-2008 season

STOMP The 2007-2008 season at IU Auditorium is set and will be exciting from start to finish. The upcoming season includes an exciting mix of comedy, musicals, dance and family-friendly events. With 15 events and 23 performances, the IU Auditorium season was developed with today's audiences in mind. "We've mixed tradition with imagination, classic with contemporary, while enhancing the world-class programming quality that our audience expects," explains Doug Booher, director of IU Auditorium. The new season will be ushered in with comedian Dennis Miller, and other exciting events including Evita, Movin' Out, Riverdance and David Sedaris.  Full Story

 Joshua Bell to join IU Jacobs School of Music faculty

Grammy Award-winning violin virtuoso, newly-crowned winner of the coveted Avery Fisher Prize and Indiana University's favorite son Joshua Bell will return to his alma mater to join the faculty of the IU Jacobs School of Music, school officials announced last week.

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 IU Archives of Traditional Music awarded second NEH grant

The Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music (ATM) and the Archive of World Music at Harvard University have been awarded a $349,910 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue their collaborative research and development project that will digitally preserve critically endangered sound recordings.

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 2007 BLEMF presents world-class performances and educational offerings

Bloomington Early Music Festival

Now in its fourteenth year, the Bloomington Early Music Festival (BLEMF), an annual celebration of music from Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Classical times, will take place May 18-28 at a variety of venues in the Bloomington community, including two performance spaces on the Indiana University Bloomington campus.

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 Mini U equals maximum learning

Mini University Conversations

Each June, hundreds of IU alumni -- and hundreds of others who didn't attend IU but want to experience a week of intellectual stimulation -- descend on the Bloomington campus for Mini University, or "Mini U," as it is known to its devotees. Winner of 2006 Pride of CASE V Awards for best practices in alumni relations and best collaborative program, this stimulating vacation college offers nearly 100 noncredit classes led by IU's finest teaching faculty.

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 JSOM’s Erick Carballo wins Esther L. Kinsley Award for research on Latin American composer

For the first time, a student at the IU Jacobs School of Music has won the highest honor for a research document that Indiana University annually bestows upon a doctoral student -- the 2006-2007 Esther L. Kinsley Ph.D. Dissertation Award. The accolade -- a single prize considered across all academic fields -- was garnered by Erick Carballo for his highly original work that broadens an understanding of composer Alberto Ginastera.

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 IU Jacobs School of Music honors centenarian employee Helen Clouse

Helen Clouse

What becomes a legend most? How about prime real estate in the heart of the Indiana University campus? On May 1, the Jacobs School of Music dedicated the "Helen Clouse Plaza" in front of the Music Practice Building on Third Street, between Ballantine and Hawthorne. Clouse, who has assisted IU music students since 1960, turned 100 that day.

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Josh Bell

The April 19, 2007, issue of Live at IU features IU alumnus Joshua Bell who was recently awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in a ceremony at Lincoln Center. This issue also highlights the spring performance of the IU Soul Revue, a preview of the Singing Hoosiers' summer Greek tour, a preview of the 2007 Big Band Extravaganza, details about the Tony Award winning musical, Nine, information about the Herron School of Art & Design's Indiana eugenics project, and classical music for beginners.

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