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 »
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IU Musicology at AMS 2024
November 14–17, 2024 2024 Annual Meeting Website Palmer House Hilton Hotel | Chicago, Illinois Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Networking Reception Saturday, Nov. 16 | 9:30–11:30 PM | Clark 5 (7th floor, Palmer House Hilton Hotel) Conference Schedule View the Searchable Online Program Wednesday, November 13 Tenth New Beethoven Research Conference… Read more »
Doctoral Research Trips to Germany and Austria, and Martinique
Each year, students in the IU Department of Musicology have the opportunity to apply for grants and fellowships that support travel, research, and study abroad. These funds, generously provided by donors and departmental supporters, help students access archives, participate in language programs, and engage with primary sources and cultural contexts crucial to their research. This… Read more »
Recent Ph.D. graduate Nicolette van den Bogerd awarded AWSS Graduate Essay Prize
The Jacobs School of Music Department of Musicology is proud to announce that Dr. Nicolette van den Bogerd (Ph.D., 2024), currently a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University, Bloomington, has been awarded the 2024 Graduate Essay Prize from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies… Read more »
“La conquista discográfica de América Latina”, a new book by Sergio Ospina Romero
Between 1903 and 1926 the Victor Talking Machine Company deployed more than twenty sound recording expeditions to all over Latin America and the Caribbean. Sergio Ospina Romero new book, La conquista discográfica de América Latina, is the first comprehensive cultural history of those expeditions and, by way of them, of the dawn of the… Read more »
Doctoral Research and Language-Learning Trips to Germany and Austria, the Netherlands, and Italy
Students in the IU Department of Musicology have the opportunity to apply for grants and fellowships that support travel, research, and study abroad. These funds, generously provided by donors and department supporters, help students access archives, participate in language programs, and engage with primary sources and cultural contexts crucial to their research. Learn more about… Read more »
Ives Festival Awarded IU Public Arts and Humanities Project Grant
In an effort spearheaded by Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Research, and Creative Activity Professor Judah Cohen and Distinguished Professor Emeritus J. Peter Burkholder, the IU Jacobs School of Music has secured a $25,000 IU Public Arts and Humanities Project grant. This funding will make the upcoming Charles Ives at 150 festival accessible for Indiana… Read more »
Jack Szczuka and Olivia Woodrow Awarded 2024 Caswell Award for Undergraduate Projects in Music History
Two Jacobs School of Music students, Jack Szczuka and Olivia Woodrow, have been named recipients of the 2024 Austin B. Caswell Awards. The awards were given to Szczuka’s paper, “Soviet Musical Orientalism: The Role of the Symphonic Works of Reinhold Glière,” and Woodrow’s paper, “An Argument On the Female Musicianship and Sexual Morality of Barbara Strozzi.”… Read more »
Sergio Ospina Romero receives Trustees Teaching Award
IU Musicology Assistant Professor Sergio Ospina Romero was one of only eleven IU Jacobs School of Music faculty, both tenure-track and non-tenure-track, to receive the prestigious 2024 Trustees Teaching Award. Selected by a five-member ad hoc committee appointed by the Jacobs School’s Faculty Issues Committee, this award recognizes Ospina Romero’s outstanding contributions in the classroom… Read more »
Music, Connection, and Being Human, with Professors Phil Ford, Daniel R. Melamed, and Javier F. León
IU Musicology Profs. Phil Ford, Daniel R. Melamed, and affiliate faculty member Javier F. León were interviewed recently for the Engage IUB Newsletter, produced by the IU Office of the Provost & Executive Vice President. In the Q&A, they discuss the origins of each of their projects — the Weird Studies podcast, Bloomington Bach Cantata Project,… Read more »