From the opening notes Saturday night it was clear that conductor Fagen was going for color and contrast in Donizetti’s orchestration. Lucia’s accompaniment in her first act aria was beautifully played by harpist Shih-Yun and the famous duet with the flute in her mad scene was flexibly partnered by flutist Jiyoun Hur.
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Come to the Cabaret with the Columbus (IN) PhilharmonicI teach my students in the Jacobs School of Music to work from the text. And I do it even with songs in English. I still start with the words, learn the poem or the phrases and then come to the music. And I do have to say that one of the joys of singing in English...is the connection with the audience through the meaning of the common language.”
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Woody Guthrie’s American SongAs we thought about the project it just seemed so right for these times. The songs are such a document of our history. They were difficult times but there’s also a good bit of fun and humor in them. At least one of Woody’s collections was called Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People and that’s a pretty good fit.
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Marat/Sade by Peter WeissWith individuals strapping themselves with explosives and walking into crowds and killing drones flying over Afghanistan the issue of political assassination is very much in the news and in our consciousness
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IU Opera Theatre’s Tale of Scottish Horror “Lucia di Lammermoor’Unlike a straight stage play where a character can say something like ‘I love you,’ in a dozen different ways, the opera has come up with a much more focused approach.
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Creating Beyond Borders: Wonderlab’s Art and Science of ColorIn our culture of specialization and compartmentalization, it’s easy to think of art and science as mutually exclusive categories. At Bloomington’s hands-on science museum, however, the distinctions between learning and playing, science and art, are blurred.
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Classical Music Highlights for FebruarySpreading a little love of classical music in the month of February.
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‘Cadillac’ at the Bloomington Playwrights ProjectIn a gesture toward conservation, the power is off for a week right through a candle lit Thursday night performance of Cadillac on February 4th.
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IU’s Archives of Traditional Music Races Against TimeIU's Archive of Traditional Music is preserving as much of its decaying media as it can, but there’s only so much time and money to do it in.
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2010 PRIDE Film Festival Highlights Rural LGBTQ LifeSince 2004, thousands have converged annually in Bloomington for the PRIDE Film Festival, a celebration and exploration of the LGBTQ community.
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Black Film Center And ArchiveThe Black Film Center and Archive is one of the world's most comprehensive collections of films by black filmmakers. Among its stacks are films that were thought disappeared, destroyed, or too dangerous for distribution.
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Third Annual Percussive Dance Extravaganza at the WaldronWe’ll also have two sword dances. Most of the moves are traditional, but I’ve actually created a new one, a ‘wall scrape.’ These can be quite beautiful and even a bit dangerous.
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Theatre of the People’s ‘The Josef K Files’The central figure Josef K, played by Nicholas Maudlin, is an apparently blameless bank functionary who’s suddenly charged with a nameless crime by a nameless authority.
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Project K: The Josef K FilesThe text is a great read and Kafka’s language has a uniquely attractive rhythm and style. I found myself wondering about how it would work and even seeing it in my mind on stage.
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Violinist Leila JosefowiczProfessor Josef Gingold was a wonderful warm man with a great depth of knowledge and also quite a sweet tooth.
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IU Dance Faculty Celebrate ‘The Legacy of Graham’The IU students had such enthusiasm and energy combined with body awareness, that it was a delight to work with them. They’ve really been taught to be thinking dancers.
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Classical Music Highlights for JanuaryHighlighting the featured recordings at the beginning of the year.
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Decoding The Dude: Academics Tackle “The Big Lebowski” In New BookProfessor Ed Comentale is co-editor of the IU Press book “The Year’s Work In Lebowski Studies”, a collection of essays analyzing the 1998 cult film The Big Lebowski.
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Cardinal Stage Company’s ‘The Sound of Music’Director Randy White with choreographer Esther Widlanski have put together a tight show. There is the almost “Marge and Gower Champion” dancing of Rolf and Liesl, the tight Broadway numbers for Max and Elsa, folkie dancing of the children, and the magical moments on the dance floor when the Captain and Maria realize their love.
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