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Edition: October 9, 2009
| VIOLIN LEGEND JOSEF GINGOLD REMEMBERED IN 100TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION |
 A celebration befitting the centennial birthday of one of the greatest violinists and violin pedagogues of all time, Josef Gingold, will be presented Nov. 1 at 8 p.m. at the Indiana University Auditorium. Joshua Bell and Jaime Laredo will be among the featured artists. The concert is free and open to the public with reserved seating tickets available in person beginning Oct. 12 at noon from both the IU Auditorium and Musical Arts Center box offices. >>Click here for more.
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| FALL BALLET HONORS 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF DIAGHILEV'S BALLETS 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 Ballets 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 OPERA THEATER CONTINUES SEASON WITH TIMELESS ROMÉO ET JULIETTE |
 Indiana University Opera Theater continues its 2009-10 season with Charles Gounod's passionate, timeless Roméo et Juliette, opening Oct. 23, with additional performances Oct. 24, 30, and 31 at the Musical Arts Center. The company has produced this lush work only twice before, in 1966 and in 2005. >>Click here for more.
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| NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE APPEARS THIS WEEKEND IN UNIQUE COLLABORATION |
 In partnership with IU's New Frontiers Program in Annunciation + Visitation: Operatic projections of her sexual insight, the IU New Music Ensemble will perform George Crumb's "Ancient Voices of Children (1970)" Oct. 9 at 8 p.m. and Oct. 10 at 3 p.m. at Bloomington’s Buskirk-Chumley Theater. Annunciation + Visitation stretches the boundaries of what defines opera. >>Click here for more.
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| JACOBS SCHOOL STUDENT RECEIVES MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP, HEARD ON NATIONAL RADIO BROADCAST |
 Jingxuan Zhang, a 16-year-old piano student of Arnaldo Cohen, has been awarded a $10,000 Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award by From the Top. Zhang will be heard on a broadcast of From the Top which will air nationally the week of Oct. 19 and on Indianapolis’ WFYI 90.1 FM on Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. >>Click here for more.
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| ADDITIONAL EVENTS |
 In addition to the fall ballet, Diaghilev Tribute, this weekend only, the New Music Ensemble will perform in a unique collaboration, Annunciation + Visitation, tonight and tomorrow afternoon at the BCT. And don’t miss the free Inaugural President’s Concert featuring the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra with Alexander Kerr Sunday at 3 p.m. in the MAC! >>Click here for more.
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| FACULTY, STAFF, STUDENT, AND ALUMNI NEWS |
 This edition of Fanfare applauds Glenn Gass, Connie Glen, Aida Huseynova, Carlos Montané, Ji-Youn Hur, Véronique Mathieu, and many more! >>Click here for more.
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| ARTICLES, PREVIEWS, AND REVIEWS |
|   Read Peter Jacobi’s fascinating look backstage at the MAC and some of the people, including Thomas Wieligman and Jim Lile, who make it run, 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 23, 2009. Please e-mail submissions to musicpub@indiana.edu by October 20 , 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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