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 »
“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 »
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 »
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 »
Announcing The Peter Burkholder and Doug McKinney Fund for Musicology
The Musicology department is overjoyed to announce that Distinguished Professor Emeritus Peter Burkholder and his husband, Doug McKinney, have established a legacy gift for the Musicology Department. The Chair of the Musicology Department, Professor Halina Goldberg, announced the news following Peter Burkholder’s opening lecture for the GMA/GTA Research Symposium on Friday, March 31. After… 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 »
IU Musicology at AMS-SEM-SMT 2022
November 10-13, 2022 2022 Joint Annual Meeting Website Hilton New Orleans Riverside | New Orleans, Louisiana Conference Schedule Wednesday, November 9 3:00 pm Patrick Domico, “Composing Refuge: Medtner as Theorist” (Identity in Music Theory and History Pre-Conference) Thursday, November 10 8:00 am Christopher J. Smith (Texas Tech University, chair) “Reclaiming the Commons: Scottish and Irish… Read more »
IU Musicology Collaboration – The Violin Sonatas of Johannes Brahms: Concert and Symposium
On Saturday, September 10, 2022, the IU Jacobs School of Music Departments of Piano, Strings, Music Theory, and Musicology, will join forces to present a concert and symposium focusing on the violin sonatas of Johannes Brahms. The day will begin at 10:00 am with opening remarks from Abra Bush, David Henry Jacobs Bicentennial Dean, and… Read more »