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Director of Iraqi orchestra to join ArtsWeek panel on diplomacy and the arts
Karim Wasfi, director of the Iraq National Symphony Orchestra, will join Jacobs Dean Emeritus Charles H. Webb, Jacobs conductor Cliff Colnot and international arts advocate Cathy Barbash on Sunday, Feb. 22, in Bloomington for a panel discussion titled "U.S.A., Diplomacy, and the Arts." The event will take place in Sweeney Hall at 1 p.m.
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IU's 25th annual ArtsWeek culminates with Women in Jazz performance, discussion
Indiana University's Arts Week 2009 will close March 1 with a free, open to the public tribute to Women's History Month, "Women in Jazz." In this spotlight event, Bloomington artists Janiece Jaffe and Monika Herzig team up with regional artists Vickie Daniel, Jennifer Kirk and Shawn Plonski, as well as some up-and-coming young female jazz artists, to celebrate three generations of women in jazz.
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A string of first-place wins for IU student guitarist
Classical guitarist Nemanja Ostojic, a master's student at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, won first place in the prestigious Southwest Guitar Festival in San Antonio Sunday (Feb. 8). The win marks Ostojic's fourth first-place international competition finish since he began studying at the Jacobs School last year.
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IU Opera Theater to stage politically charged love story 'Giulio Cesare' during ArtsWeek 2009
In a perfect complement to ArtsWeek 2009's "Politics and the Arts" theme, the political power struggles of ancient Egypt -- and the passionate love affair between the iconic figures Cleopatra and Cesare -- will come to life on the stage of Indiana University's Musical Arts Center when the Jacobs School of Music stages Giulio Cesare, one of George Frideric Handel's most popular operas.
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IU Jacobs School of Music offers more than 50 events during ArtsWeek 2009
The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music celebrates ArtsWeek 2009 (Feb. 19 through March 1) with a rich variety of events that includes an international panel discussion; a conversation about the influence of politics on the music of the Beatles; and Handel's high-intrigue, politically charged opera Guilio Cesare. A host of orchestral, chamber, solo and ensemble performances by a wide array of guests, faculty members and students completes the schedule during Bloomington's 11-day arts immersion extravaganza.
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IU Baroque Orchestra to perform 're-discovered' work last staged in 1741
In a unique collaboration between the IU Jacobs School of Music's Early Music Institute and musicology professor Lawrence Bennett at Wabash College, Ind., the IU Baroque Orchestra and singers from the Jacobs School will offer two semi-staged performances of Ignaz Holzbauer's dramatic opera Hypermnestra.
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IU Jacobs Professor Violette Verdy awarded France’s highest decoration
Violette Verdy, a distinguished professor in the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, has been named a Chevalier (Knight) in France's National Order of the Legion of Honor, an award from President M. Nicolas Sarkozy. The order is France's highest decoration.
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IU Jacobs School students to perform at Kennedy Center
Eight students from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music will perform a concert on Feb. 17 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., for an audience of aspiring young artists and music connoisseurs.
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Concerto Palatino to perform at the IU Jacobs School of Music
For more than a decade and a half, Concerto Palatino, under the direction of Bruce Dickey and Charles Toet, has led the way in the revival of the cornetto and Baroque trombone.
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IU, city of Bloomington to celebrate 25th annual ArtsWeek
Starting Feb. 19 and continuing through March 1, Indiana University will present the 25th annual ArtsWeek, a winter festival showcasing an array of arts, entertainment and discussion surrounding the theme "Politics and the Arts."
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