"You are all permitted and encouraged to laugh!" This is the declaration of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom, who warns audiences attending his latest opera, A Wedding, not to take it too seriously. The collegiate premiere by IU Opera Theater, which opens Feb. 1 at Indiana University's Musical Arts Center, is a witty adult comedy portraying an all-American train wreck of a wedding during which everything that can go wrong does. >>Click here for more.

Three-time Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell and acclaimed pianist Jeremy Denk, two of classical music's brightest stars, with common student and faculty ties to the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, will perform a recital together at IU's Musical Arts Center on Feb. 10 at 4 p.m. This will be their first performance together in Bloomington and Bell's first local concert as an incoming IU faculty member. >>Click here for more.

JENNA SHERRY NAMED MARSHALL SCHOLAR

Jenna Sherry, a senior in the IU Jacobs School of Music, has been selected as a Marshall Scholar for 2008 by the British government. Sherry is from New Orleans and is completing a bachelor's of music in violin performance with Mark Kaplan, professor of music in the Jacobs School. As a Marshall Scholar, she will study at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama with violinist David Takeno starting in September 2008. >>Click here for more.

DAVID CONSTANTINE AWARDED AT INTERNATIONAL TIMPANI COMPETITION

IU Jacobs School of Music student David Constantine was recently awarded second place at the Rendez-vous Internationaux de la Timbale (2nd International Timpani Competition of Lyon) in Lyon, France. >>Click here for more.

Enjoy a musical weekend at the Jacobs School with the Living Composers Forum (with William Bolcom and Joan Morris) this Saturday, and A Celebration of Spirituals (with Marietta Simpson and friends), Music from Spain and Latin America, and a Hungarian Concert, all this Sunday. The Chamber Orchestra starts its performance semester Jan. 30, while an Audition Eve Recital precedes the collegiate premiere of William Bolcom’s opera A Wedding on Feb. 1. Get your tickets now, then fasten your seat belts for this clever adult comedy! >>Click here for more.

This edition of Fanfare sends kudos to Carolina Castells, Alan Dunbar, Eileen Jennings, Angela Mannino, Kevin Murphy, Betsy Uschkrat, Jihye Chang, Derek Johnson, and many others! >>Click here for more.

Read reviews of the recent Computer Music Recital, directed by Jeffrey Haas and John Gibson. Also, link directly to all of Peter Jacobi’s previews and reviews, as well as other Jacobs articles in The Herald-Times; no password needed. We keep track of these articles and many more from around the globe for your information and convenience. >>Click here for more.