Bloom Archives
Jacobs School of Music
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The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music: Making Beautiful Music for 100 Years
Over the past 100 years, the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music has become an illustrious force in American music education.
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Pacifica Quartet Wins Another Grammy
At the 2021 Grammy Awards, Indiana University’s quartet-in-residence, The Pacifica Quartet, was awarded Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for its album Contemporary Voices.
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Sylvia McNair Back at WFIU Hosting Classical Music Show
When Sylvia McNair began hosting a new program of classical music on WFIU-FM in January, it was a homecoming of sorts. McNair worked at…
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Local Composers Create Modern Operas for Kids
Kim Carballo, a voice coach at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, says that in the 1950s and ’60s, a slew of children’s…
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Hear Great Music the Way it Was at Bloomington Early Music Festival
Bach and his contemporaries would be surprised if they were to attend modern concerts of their works. The baroque style of performance was different,…
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Bloom’s Greatest Hits: Bernstein in Bloomington
The driver pulled up to the house on Lake Monroe where Henry Upper waited eagerly to welcome the legend. Upper, then associate dean of…
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Opera Star Peter Volpe Returns to Teach At ‘Best Music School in the World’—IU
As a teenager, Peter Volpe lived 18 miles from Juilliard, but as an aspiring opera singer, he chose to attend the Indiana University School…
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Jazz Vocalist Tierney Sutton Joins Jacobs School Faculty
Tierney Sutton, who joined the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music faculty this fall, was a singing cocktail waitress when she found her vocation.…
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The Virtuosi: Youngsters Making Beautiful Music
BY JANET MANDELSTAM These musical ambassadors from Indiana University have performed — and been cheered — all over the world, most recently in Argentina…