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Edition: October 1, 2009
| FALL BALLET HONORS 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF DIAGHILEV'S BALLET RUSSES |
Around the world, ballet companies from the Kirov to the Royal Ballet are planning performances that will honor the 100th anniversary of the first performance by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russes. Joining the celebration, IU Ballet Theater will present its fall ballet program, Diaghilev Tribute. The evening features the work of two choreographers from the Diaghilev era, George Balanchine and Bronislava Nijinska, and new choreography from Michael Vernon, chair of the Jacobs School Department of Ballet. >>Click here for more. |
| IU PRESIDENT'S CONCERT TO FEATURE THE INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND VIOLINIST ALEXANDER KERR |
 The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra returns to Bloomington on Sunday, Oct. 11, at 3:00 p.m. for the inaugural Indiana University President's Concert in the Musical Arts Center. The concert, offered free by the university to the campus and Bloomington community, will be conducted by renowned maestro Juanjo Mena and will feature Jacobs Professor Alexander Kerr in a performance of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. Kerr is also the principal guest concertmaster of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Additional works on the program include Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 5 and IU composer and Jacobs Professor Claude Baker's "Aus Schwanengesang." >>Click here for more.
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| REGIONAL EMMY RECOGNIZES PROGRAM FEATURING SYLVIA MCNAIR |
 Jacobs faculty member and two-time Grammy Award-winner Sylvia McNair is used to winning recognition for her singing. But her latest honor is something a little different. Mickey's Corner, a television series hosted by her friend Michael S. "Mickey" Maurer, won a regional 2009 Emmy Award for a program that featured McNair talking about her life as well as performing music. >>Click here for more.
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| STUDENT COMPOSER HONORED WITH PRESTIGIOUS 2009 ASCAP FOUNDATION AWARD |
 Composer Clint Needham finds endless inspiration in the world around him. Needham's award-winning classical compositions have come to him as the result of everything from last year's Presidential election to his experiences with nature. A doctoral fellow in composition at Jacobs, Needham was recently the recipient of a 2009 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Concert Music Composer Award, his second honor from ASCAP (in addition, he was twice nominated for honorable mentions by the organization). >>Click here for more.
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| ADDITIONAL EVENTS |
 Fall semester is in full gear with the New Music Ensemble in concert tonight and the last chance to catch L’Italiana in Algeri this weekend. Don Freund concludes his series on J. S. Bach, presenting the same recital program on Friday and Saturday nights, and a lecture on Sunday. Later on Sunday, don’t miss the Brass Choir and Chamber Orchestra back-to-back in Auer Hall! >>Click here for more.
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| FACULTY, STAFF, STUDENT, AND ALUMNI NEWS |
 This edition of Fanfare applauds Robert Harrison, Robert Hatten, Sylvia McNair, Will Reno, James Bagwell, Melanie Diener, Robert Dodson, Matthew Klink, and many more! >>Click here for more.
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| ARTICLES, PREVIEWS, AND REVIEWS |
|  Read the Washington Post article about alumnus tenor Lawrence Brownlee and the New York Times article about alumnus conductor James Bagwell, as well as all the other Jacobs coverage in the Bloomington Herald-Times and beyond!
>>Click here for more.
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NOTE: The next issue of Fanfare will be published October 9, 2009. Please e-mail submissions to musicpub@indiana.edu by October 6 , 2009. 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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