Kevin Karnes, Senior Associate Dean for the Arts at Emory University, will visit the IU Jacobs School of Music Thursday, Dec. 5, and Friday Dec. 6, to deliver the fourth installment of the Peter Burkholder Lecture Series. In addition to his public talk, he will participate in a presentation, Q&A, and film screening of The… Read more »
Guest Lecture
IU Musicology Hosting Series of Events on Kavalier and Clay
In one week, the IU Jacobs School of Music Opera Theater will present the world premiere of Mason Bates and Gene Scheer’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay., a new opera co-produced with the Metropolitan Opera. The show portrays two cousins in 1940s New York City—a refugee from wartime Prague and a closeted queer… Read more »
Musicology Department Hosts Dr William Gibbons for Peter Burkholder Lecture Series
The IU Musicology Department and Graduate Musicology Association are thrilled to welcome William Gibbons, Professor of Music History and Dean of the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. His talk, “Ode to Joysticks: Canonic Fantasies and the Beethoven of Game Music,” will be the third installment of the Peter Burkholder Lecture series. This event… Read more »
Birgit Lodes to Give Jacobs School of Music Distinguished Lecture
The Jacobs School of Music is thrilled to host Dr. Birgit Lodes in September. Prof. Lodes will deliver a talk as part of the IU Jacobs School of Music Distinguished Lecture Series and the Musicology Colloquium. She will also visit the Renaissance Studies Program while in Bloomington. Birgit Lodes (University of Vienna) Thursday, September 14… Read more »
Anne Frank Panel Discussion and Community School Presentations
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 »
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 »