On Friday, March 3rd, the IU Jacobs School of Music Opera Theater presents the world premiere of the opera Anne Frank by Shulamit Ran and Charles Kondek. In anticipation of the event, the Jacobs School of Music has collaborated with the Eskenazi Museum of Art and the Borns Jewish Studies Program to present a series… Read more »
Month: February 2023
Weird Studies Podcast Receives Stand Out Review in London Times
Congratulations to Professor Philip Ford and his podcasting partner JF Martel on the latest review of their podcast Weird Studies in the London Times, receiving 4 stars from critic James Marriott. This review comes on the tail of another recent write-up in The New York Times this past summer, which similarly recommended the podcast to… Read more »
CFP: 2023 Caswell Award for Undergraduate Projects in Music History
ELIGIBILITY Students may nominate their own projects. Alternatively, students’ projects may be nominated or encouraged by faculty members, associate instructors, and classmates. To be eligible for this year’s award, a project must have been submitted in fulfillment of course requirements for a music history class during the 2022 calendar year. You may revise the project… Read more »
Musicology Department Hosts Mark Burford for Peter Burkholder Lecture Series
The IU Musicology Department and Graduate Musicology Association are pleased to welcome Mark Burford, R.P. Wollenberg Professor of Music at Reed College. His talk, “‘A Good Musical Education’: Mahalia Jackson and the Legibility of Black Women’s Voices,” is the second in the Peter Burkholder Lecture series, established in 2019 in honor of Distinguished Professor Emeritus… Read more »
Hearing Postcolonial Theory through African Choralism with Dr. Oladele Ayorinde
The department welcomed Dr. Oladele Ayorinde, Visiting Assistant Professor in Ethnomusicology, on Friday, January 27th for his lecture “Hearing Postcolonial Theory through African Choralism: Themes, Topics and Aesthetics in Modern African Choral Music”. The talk traced the development of choral practices in post-colonial Africa with a focus on Nigeria and South Africa. Dr. Ayorinde wove… Read more »