The semester is winding down at IU Bloomington, but the Bloomington Ballet Ensemble has not slowed down their community engagement efforts one bit. The Bloomington Ballet Ensemble is a student organization at IUB made up of Ballet Majors from the Jacobs School of Music. With the leadership of Robin Allen, a respected professor in the… Read more »
Month: April 2021
New Morse Code to Visit Bloomington in the Fall
It is needless to say we all are excited for what will hopefully be a rush of in-person activity for the Fall of 2021. The Jacobs Community Engagement Initiative and The Jacobs Office of Entrepreneurship and Career Development are working together to bring New Morse Code, a highly innovative, prize-winning ensemble, to the IU Bloomington… Read more »
Choral Clinics in Huntingburg: Singing Hoosiers + Southridge High School
The Singing Hoosiers and Southridge High School Choir first started their relationship almost exactly a year ago, in the spring of 2020. Roughly 50 members of the IU Singing Hoosiers hopped aboard a charter bus and headed off to Huntingburg for an all-day collaboration with the Southridge High Choir. Erich Kendall, the choir director at… Read more »
Classical Connections Jumpstart Virtual Lessons with Paoli and Brown County
Student organization Classical Connections was one of the first groups to explore community engagement activity at the start of the Jacobs School – Center for Rural Engagement collaboration, all the way back in 2018. Classical Connections’ mission is to bring the joy of music to diverse areas of the greater Bloomington community through musical performance,… Read more »