Congratulations to two Jacobs School of Music students, Hudson Maness and Miles Damaso, recipients of our 2023 Austin B. Caswell Awards. Maness received the award for his paper “The Tragedy of the Ospedali”. The committee also recently opened the award up to podcasts and Damaso’s “Recording Techniques in Early Jazz and How They Helped Shape… Read more »
Tag: Music History
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 »
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 hosts Dietmar Friesenegger
On Wednesday, March 31, the Indiana University Department of Musicology, along with the Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute, Borns Jewish Studies Program, and the Institute for European Studies will host Dietmar Friesenegger as he delivers his lecture, “Regional Identity, Conflict, and the Nation State: The Four Lives of a Borderland Cantata.” The… Read more »
Prof. Ayana Smith Receives Award for Racial Justice Research
In June of this year, IU announced the creation of a new Racial Justice Research Fund designed to provide start-up funding for race-related research, workshops, and to engage members of the university community. As of September 21, the fund was supporting 31 projects and continues to accept proposals on a rolling basis. Ayana Smith, associate… Read more »
American Handel Festival and Conference returns to the IU Jacobs School of Music in March 2021
We are looking forward to the return of the American Handel Festival and Conference to Bloomington in March 11-14, 2021, this time for a virtual gathering. This event is co-hosted by Indiana University and the American Handel Society. The society seeks to foster study of the life, works, and times of George Frideric Handel, and to… Read more »