WFIU Arts

Still Wearing Sneakers: The Canadian Brass Celebrate Forty Years

Annie Corrigan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:00:17 +0000

Few chamber groups can boast the accomplishments of the Canadian Brass. And even after forty years, the group isn't showing any signs of stopping now.

The Musical Arts Youth Orchestra and the Art of Practice

Megan Meyer — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:54:00 +0000

The Musical Arts Youth Orchestra, or MAYO, is an inter-school orchestra where kids of all ages come together to play a wide range of musical styles. For many of its members, MAYO is their first experience playing in a full orchestra.

Food Rules: A Conversation With Author Michael Pollan

Annie Corrigan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:50:16 +0000

Author Michael Pollan knows a thing or two about food. He hopes his new book "Food Rules" will to give you some rules of thumb when shopping for groceries.

IU President McRobbie Rocks Public Radio

Joe Bourne — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:47:48 +0000

Indiana University president Michael McRobbie guest hosted the WFIU radio program “Just You and Me with Joe Bourne” March 5, from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Cinderella by Rodgers and Hammerstein

George Walker — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:50:55 +0000

Bedford North Lawrence High School Choral Director Brian Samarzea's latest production is Cinderella - with his daughter as the lady with the glass slipper.

Fleet Irish Feet Grace the Auditorium Stage in “Lord of the Dance”

George Walker — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:35:12 +0000

Lord of the Dance featuring 2009 World Irish Dance champions Scott Doherty and Michael McHugh comes to the IU Auditorium for a single performance March 7.

Beauty and the Beast Comes To The IU Auditorium

George Walker — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:26:05 +0000

Beauty and the Beast opened Tuesday night, with seven additional songs and real actors playing all those cartoon characters from the film.

Improbable Kinship: Arthur Liou, Barry Gealt, Osamu James Nakagawa

Yaël Ksander — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:49:49 +0000

In the gallery where the triennial faculty show is on view at the Indiana University Art Museum, there’s a grouping that might not immediately seem interrelated. Although very disparate in terms of form, works by Arthur Liou, Barry Gealt, and Osamu James Nakagawa emerged from the artists’ philosophical and personal kinship.

Soprano Meghan Dewald As Magda In La Rondine

George Walker — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:30:17 +0000

Soprano Meghan Dewald, playing Magda, is a veteran of roles in operas that range from the stately Handel to the wild video piece of Osvaldo Golijov.

Review Of La Rondine At The IU Opera Theater

George Walker — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:15:30 +0000

La Rondine is Giacomo Puccini’s tale of a richly kept woman who falls in love with a young innocent and then is separated from him by her past.

MOSAIC Film Festival Puts A Spotlight On Homelessness

George Walker — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:16:08 +0000

Diversity Theatre, a program of the City of Bloomington Community and Family Resources Department, presents the 3rd MOSAIC Film Festival.

Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw

George Walker — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:06:04 +0000

In Major Barbara directed by Sabrina Lloyd at IU’s Ruth N. Halls Theatre everyone has a point, a position and a bit of a pulpit. Fortunately, they also have a character, a story and a good bit of humor about them.

Classical Music Highlights for March

David Wood — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:00:59 +0000

Thawing out with some fine classical music in March.

Voces Novae: The Proper Resolution of Dissonance

George Walker — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:23:45 +0000

The vocal ensemble Voces Novae has collaborated with the Community Justice and Mediation Center for a program titled “The Proper Resolution of Dissonance.”

The Luke Gillespie Trio: Live at the Station

David Brent Johnson — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:50:01 +0000

Sometimes in the arts, the best things happen when you’re not expecting them.

The Library To The Stage: Folklore/Ethnomusicology Coffeehouse

Annie Corrigan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:23:02 +0000

Folklore and Ethnomusicology Department cuts loose with an evening of musical performances that includes everything from folk songs to pop tune parodies.

Arts Writer Dianne Durante on Sculpture’s Forgotten Delights

Adam Schwartz — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:48:37 +0000

Arts historian Dianne Durante tells WFIU’s Adam Schwartz how to enjoy outdoor monuments, which she calls “forgotten delights.”

MOSAIC Film Festival Aims To Educate, Entertain

Josephine McRobbie — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:56:14 +0000

The 3rd annual MOSAIC Film Festival addresses issues of poverty, homelessness, and disability through a variety of short films for adults and children.

Swing Your Parents Round – The Family Dance Series Is For Everyone

Annie Corrigan — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:22:37 +0000

Abby Ladin grew up on the east coast and has been dancing her entire life. She teaches dance and music at festivals around the area. At one festival, she saw families dancing together for the first time, “and it was a revelation! I’ve been doing it all my life and I’ve never seen it done like this before. And this makes so much sense.”

The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey

George Walker — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:10:28 +0000

A fascinating family mystery, wrapped in a very funny city-meets-country comedy.

Fondly Do We Hope… Choreographer Bill T. Jones

George Walker — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:10:09 +0000

The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company brings Jones’ Fondly Do We Hope…Fervently Do We Pray to Bloomington February 25, 2010.

Esprit, the Camerata Orchestra

George Walker — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:00:09 +0000

Former IU student and long time Bloomington resident Corey Cerovsek comes to plays the concerto. “Actually, Corey and I have some history,” said Lipsky. He soloed in a piece by Max Bruch with an orchestra that I conducted.”

Painting Today: Other Criteria

Yaël Ksander — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:48:44 +0000

When you wander into an exhibition of contemporary art these days, it might occur to you to ask, where have all the paintings gone? The dearth of the longtime mainstay of the visual arts in the current scene prompted a recent discussion at the IU Art Museum. The triennial show of faculty art set the stage for "Painting: Dead or Alive?"

Fondly Do We Hope… Composer Christopher Lancaster

George Walker — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:00:25 +0000

Christopher Antonio William Lancaster is the man that choreographer Bill T. Jones calls his “band leader.”

The Welcome Table Returns to the Buskirk-Chumley

George Walker — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:00:07 +0000

We’ll be singing ‘Pie R Pie’ and leading a raucous vocal march down to the B-Town Trail and the Farmer’s Market area.

Artsweek Event Gives Insight Into ‘The Composer’s Perception’

David Wood — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:50:59 +0000

On February 20th, Connie Cook Glen, professor at the Jacobs School of Music, will give an Artsweek presentation which seeks to reveal some of the methods composers have used in their efforts to capture the world around them.

‘The Drawer Boy’ by Michael Healey

George Walker — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:00:51 +0000

Actually, we’re thinking about some expansions in the coming year. We’ve had great success with children’s shows like Frog and Toad and we’re thinking about a series that focuses on that audience.

Urinetown, the Musical

George Walker — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:00:04 +0000

I particularly enjoy working with our cast on this one because the authors have incorporated parodies of a number of Broadways styles. Along the way, afficianados will recognize mini-tributes to West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, and Les Misearables .

Powerful Music Delivered in ‘Letters from Lincoln’

David Wood — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:00:03 +0000

For the Lincoln bicentennial, the Spokane Symphony commissioned American composer Michael Daugherty to write Letters from Lincoln for baritone and orchestra.

ISU Prof: Mark Twain’s ‘White Period’ More Wild Than We Think

Adam Schwartz — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:48:48 +0000

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, spent the last years of his life bitter and depressed—or so goes the conventional wisdom. A new biography by Michael Shelden, a professor of English at Indiana State University, challenges that view.

Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss

George Walker — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:59:55 +0000

As we sat waiting for the show to start a warm female answering machine voice kept telling us that “At Charenton art and therapy go hand in hand, we’re modern.”

Perlman, Ax and Ma collaborate on Mendelssohn Trios

David Wood — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:24:15 +0000

With the Super Bowl recently passed, and the Olympics gearing up, I started trying to put together a sort of classical music “dream team.”

Comedian Maria Bamford Visits Bloomington

Josephine McRobbie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:40:13 +0000

One of the stars of "The Comedians of Comedy" comes to town, outfitted with an arsenal of surreal vignettes and wicked impersonations.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the Terre Haute Symphony

George Walker — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:00:31 +0000

The Erard and Pleyel companies were vying in the development of the harp. And Claude Debussy was commissioned to create the Danses Sacree et Profane for a new chromatic harp. It’s a case of the piece persisting and the harp itself disappearing.

Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti

George Walker — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:37:58 +0000

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.

Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss

George Walker — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:21:18 +0000

With 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

Woody Guthrie’s American Song

George Walker — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:26:33 +0000

As 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.

Creating Beyond Borders: Wonderlab’s Art and Science of Color

Yaël Ksander — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:38:35 +0000

In 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.

Come to the Cabaret with the Columbus (IN) Philharmonic

George Walker — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:00:40 +0000

I 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.”

IU Opera Theatre’s Tale of Scottish Horror “Lucia di Lammermoor’

George Walker — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:00:14 +0000

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.

‘Cadillac’ at the Bloomington Playwrights Project

George Walker — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:22:30 +0000

In a gesture toward conservation, the power is off for a week right through a candle lit Thursday night performance of Cadillac on February 4th.

Classical Music Highlights for February

David Wood — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:00:49 +0000

Spreading a little love of classical music in the month of February.

IU’s Archives of Traditional Music Races Against Time

Adam Schwartz — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:16:57 +0000

IU'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.

Black Film Center And Archive

Megan Meyer — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:08:09 +0000

The 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.

2010 PRIDE Film Festival Highlights Rural LGBTQ Life

Josephine McRobbie — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:35:20 +0000

Since 2004, thousands have converged annually in Bloomington for the PRIDE Film Festival, a celebration and exploration of the LGBTQ community.

Theatre of the People’s ‘The Josef K Files’

George Walker — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:49:51 +0000

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.

Third Annual Percussive Dance Extravaganza at the Waldron

George Walker — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:58 +0000

We’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.

Project K: The Josef K Files

George Walker — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:00:19 +0000

The 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.

Violinist Leila Josefowicz

George Walker — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:00:15 +0000

Professor Josef Gingold was a wonderful warm man with a great depth of knowledge and also quite a sweet tooth.

IU Dance Faculty Celebrate ‘The Legacy of Graham’

George Walker — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:00:33 +0000

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.