The OECD is thrilled to feature embedded entrepreneur Nikki Pet and her sister Kaitlin Pet as our October Entrepreneurs of the Month! A clarinetist and multimedia artist, Nikki is developing innovative projects throughout the year with mentorship from the OECD, IU Innovates, and other collaborators across IU Bloomington. Her creative work focuses on using animation to visually… Read more »
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WEEKLY DIGEST: Public Radio cuts and classical music, AI will change how we listen, JSoM’s Danqi Zeng wins international Bach competition, Josh Bell is now MBE, and more
FEATURE Public Radio Cuts Could Silence Classical Music in America The Washington Post: Michael Andor Brodeur Back in July, the Trump administration clawed back some $1.1 billion in funding for public broadcasting, effectively shuttering the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which for nearly 60 years appropriated federal funds to organizations such as PBS, NPR and other… Read more »
Weekly Digest: Modern Music Ruined?, people with ADHD may be more creative, Cristian Macelaru leads the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Taylor Swift’s marketing prowess, and more.
FEATURE Did a Single Generation Ruin Modern Music for Everyone Else? NY Times: Joshua Barone The avant-garde works that emerged from World War II continue to influence how audiences view contemporary music decades later. Why, in the popular imagination, does this style of iconoclastic avant-gardism endure as contemporary music writ large? Especially when the music… Read more »
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FEATURE TikTok Partners With London’s Southbank Centre to Launch New Classical Music Initiative The Violin Channel The Southbank Centre and TikTok have announced the launch of Crescendo, a new six-month program to support and promote emerging classical music digital content creators in the UK. RESEARCH AND OPINION JSoM Alert! Too Many Dings and Beeps? Try… Read more »
September Entrepreneur of the Month: Flutist Jasmine Choi
Our Entrepreneur of the Month for September is recently appointed Jacobs School of Music faculty member, Jasmine Choi! An innovator in the classical music world, Choi is widely recognized for her artistry, teaching, and groundbreaking use of digital platforms to reach new audiences. Her YouTube channel, with more than 30 million views, exemplifies her commitment… Read more »
Weekly Digest: AI Artist is signed a multi-million record deal, summer music festival in the Moab, updates on national orgs, tension in the arts with Israel, and more.
FEATURE Al Singer Xania Monet Just Charted On Billboard, Signed $3M Deal. Is This The Future Of Music? Forbes: Doug Melvills Seventeen million streams in two months. A multimillion-dollar record deal. A Billboard-charting single. These are the kinds of stats that typically belong to breakout human stars. But today they belong to Xania Monet —… Read more »
WEEKLY DIGEST: Mason Bates bring Symphonic Electronica to Kavalier & Clay, Jazz Education and AI, trends in programming in an increasingly politicized world, orchestra updates, and more.
FEATURE JSoM Alert! The Composer Bringing ‘Symphonic Electronica’ to the Met NY Times: Adam Nagourney With “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” Mason Bates, a.k.a. DJ Masonic, expands the sound world of the Metropolitan Opera. The work was premiered by IU Opera Theater during the 2024-25 season and had its Met premiere this past… Read more »
WEEKLY DIGEST: The Rise of AI and Opera, The Machine and Created American Pop, Teddy Abrams appointed to Ojai Music Festival, and more.
FEATURE The Royal Ballet and Opera Confronts the Rise of A.I. With a New Festival NY Times: Farah Nayeri As an art form, opera has not typically been associated with cutting-edge technology. Born four centuries ago, it traditionally involves singers swaddled in corsets, tailcoats or togas acting out stories of courtly intrigue and mythological doom…. Read more »
WEEKLY DIGEST: Shaping the 20th Century through Jazz, Deborah Rutter interview, Esa-Pekka Salonen goes to LA while SF musicians strike, the Met turns to Saudi Arabia, new AI music label turns things upside down, and more.
FEATURE Jazz Corner: How 20th-Century Jazz Shaped Popular Music Rolling Stone India: Sunil Sampat From ragtime and the Jazz Age to Bollywood and hip-hop, jazz has been a constant force in influencing music across cultures and generations. As the great and wise Duke Ellington always maintained, “If you want to know where you are going,… Read more »
WEEKLY DIGEST: 300 years of Classical Music in a TED talk, what’s happening in progressive jazz, Tanglewood’s focus on children, Beethoven.ai launch and why it’s groundbreaking, and more
FEATURE JSoM Alert! Joshua Bell: 300 Years of Classical Music in 18 Minutes TED: Classical music innovation at work! Does the world still need classical music? What about orchestras? In this gorgeous talk and performance, violinist Joshua Bell (JSoM alumnus, born in Bloomington!) and the Chamber Orchestra of America play selections of classical music masterpieces… Read more »