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Edition: July 25, 2008 - updated August 8
| THE BEAUX ARTS TRIO PERFORM THEIR FINAL U.S. CONCERT AUGUST 21 |
 Completing a historic 53-year run, the Beaux Arts Trio, led by IU Jacobs School of Music Distinguished Professor Menahem Pressler, will perform its final U.S. concert at the Tanglewood Festival— the very location where the venerable ensemble gave its first public concert on July 13, 1955. >> Click here for a resource page - including live audio from the concert and a chat room.
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| MAUREEN MCGOVERN SINGS AND SWINGS IN THE MUSICAL ARTS CENTER, AUGUST 8 |
 Maureen McGovern's 35-year career includes recordings, concerts, Broadway, theater, films, television, radio and composing, all with a voice that defies categorization. Her collaborations with Jacobs School of Music Professor Steve Houghton, faculty, students, and regional professionals will include a hard-swinging big band, followed by a studio orchestra playing the beautiful sounds of the Great American Songbook at 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8, in the Musical Arts Center. >>Click here for more. |
| WORLD PREMIERE ˇÚNNICAMENTE LA VERDAD! "VIDEOPERA" CLOSES SUMMER FESTIVAL |
Smuggling and betrayal. Myth and reality. Can fiction be truer than fact or reach a layer of truth that the usual facts don't make accessible? These intriguing issues and others will be explored in the final production of the 2008 IU Summer Festival, ¡Unicamente la Verdad! (Only the Truth!), at 8 p.m. in the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, downtown Bloomington, Aug. 8 and 9.
Two complementary events celebrate this World Premiere:
Composing the New Works for Voice
Workshop led by renowned composer Sven-David Sandstrom
29 July - 2nd August, 2008
Sweeney Hall and MA066
Borderland Imaginations: Contemporary Opera, Media, and New Artistic Expressions
Colloquium led by music theorist Marianne Kielian-Gilbert
8 - 9 August, 2008
1:30 - 4:30 pm. Sweeney Hall (Simon Music Building) >>Click here for more. |
| IU’S 2008 SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL WELCOMES CANADIAN BRASS AND CHANTICLEER |
 The Grammy Award-winning, all-male chorus Chanticleer and internationally renowned quintet Canadian Brass -- both of which have strong ties to Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music -- will play at IU's Summer Music Festival July 27 and Aug. 3, respectively. >>Click here for more.
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| IU OPERA THEATER PRESENTS ‘BEST MUSICAL COMEDY EVER WRITTEN’ |
 Vincent Liotta is well-known in the opera world for co-founding the renowned Utah Festival Opera and for his stage direction with companies ranging from the Chicago Lyric Opera to the Vienna Staatspoer. This summer, though, Liotta is most thrilled not about a classic opera, but about an uplifting musical comedy, She Loves Me, presented July 25, 26 and August 1, 2 by IU Opera Theater as part of the 2008 Indiana University Summer Music Festival. >>Click here for more.
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| ROBERT SPANO CONDUCTS FINAL 2008 FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CONCERT |
 On Thursday (July 31), Robert Spano will conduct this summer's final Festival Orchestra concert through a tour de force of pieces featuring Higdon's Blue Cathedral, Ravel's Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Spano, is internationally recognized as one of the brightest and most imaginative conductors of his generation. Concertmaster for the performance will be Jacobs School faculty member Alex Kerr, and newly appointed faculty member Eric Kim (presently principal cello of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra) will lead the cello section. >>Click here for more. |
| IU JACOBS SCHOOL OF MUSIC WELCOMES 42 STUDENTS FROM OVERSEAS |
 Indiana University Bloomington's Jacobs School of Music recently welcomed 42 talented international students for the second summer session. Besides intensive daily classes in English and their instrument of choice, these students will have a chance to shine in the series of choral and orchestra concerts traditionally held in the IU Summer Music Festival. >>Click here for more.
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| FACULTY, STUDENT, AND ALUMNI NEWS |
 This edition of Fanfare! cheers the achievements of Paul Kiesgen, Carol Vaness, Valerie Vinzant, Marcos Aguiar, Fernando Araujo, Vince Lee, Toby Oft, and more! >>Click here for more.
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| ARTICLES, PREVIEWS, AND REVIEWS |
|  Read the latest coverage about Sylvia McNair, the Beaux Arts Trio, and the IU Summer Music Festival, as well as many other Jacobs articles in The Herald-Times and beyond. We keep track of these articles and many more from around the globe for your information and convenience. >>Click here for more.
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NOTE: The next issue of Fanfare will be published July 25, 2008. Please e-mail submissions to musicpub@indiana.edu by July 22, 2008. Don't forget to include Web-quality photos! To ensure that the most accurate information is published, please proof materials before submitting. |
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