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Certain qualities are indispensable in making up a good maestro: extensive knowledge of the repertoire, sound artistic taste, and strong verbal and nonverbal communication skills, to name a few. But there is another trait that great conductors share, almost without exception: great hair.
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Mark Doerries would like you to know that his concert this weekend was an experiment — and a success.
Doerries, a doctoral candidate in choral conducting, along with the Luminescence Project Electro-Acoustic Orchestra, presented his interpretation of J.S. Bach’s ‘Johannes Passion...
I like a good time as much as anybody. You can call me “Good-Time Bruno.” And in this town, there’s no dearth of happy smiley arty good-timey-ness. There’s so much abundance, in fact, that the challenge isn’t in the finding. No…the rub is in our defining what, fo...
The Bible might state that Jesus was crucified on the cross in Golgotha. But this weekend, he’s going to be on trial with a little rock music to back him up.
The IU Art Museum will become a stage for the student-run production of “PASSIONate CONVICTions,” a re-envisioning of Johann...
Not to minimize the vast, if varying, contributions of the many musicians involved, the star of IU Opera Theater’s current production — Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” — is someone who doesn’t sing, play an instrument or wave a baton.
This is C. David Higgins...
“There is only one way to be an intellectual revolutionary, and that is to give up being an intellectual.” I laughed out loud the first time I heard those words from Jean-Luc Godard’s 1968 film, Sympathy for the Devil. I laughed at their pretense; then I whooped with joy at their h...
Q: What is the Luminescence Project? When and why did it initially begin?
A: The Luminescence Project unites people of differing artistic disciplines, not restricted to the arts, to create new forms of multi-sensory and multi-dimensional art. The project has a history of combining vocal music and l...
This winter, the IU Art Museum presents Dreaming in Darkness, a performance piece integrating the light display of the IU Art Museum’s Light Totem, choral music performed by an ensemble of IU Jacobs School of Music students and theatrical movement performed by students from the IU Theatre Depa...
A candle-lit First United Church proved an embracing locale for Wednesday evening's exquisitely atmospheric concert by IU's Pro-Arte singers and Baroque Orchestra, one inspired by Psalm 130, often referred to as "De Profundis," the first two words of its text in Latin.
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Grad student aims to enlighten new audiences with ‘Luminescence’ concert
Mark Doerries has ambitious goals.
He hopes to turn the world of classical music on its ear by changing the traditional repertoire, infusing it with a multi-sensory experience and developing younger, more diverse au...