Discussion

1. Why do millions of people in America buy albums with traditional music?

2. Is it necessary to modernize traditional music?

3. Speak on the importance of outreach activities for a good chorus.

Project Topics

1. Great performers of American traditional music.

2. Cultural services to the community by music collectives.

3. America as the centre of attraction for outstanding musicians.

Lesson 3. Music education. Pop & rock in the usa Quiz

1. Do you think that a university school with an opera theatre and 1,000 public student performances each year is a great school? Justify your answer.

2. Do you need university education to become a good musician?

3. Have you ever heard of Jim Morrison or any other bard or "protest rock" musicians?

A Welcome from Gwyn Richards, Dean, Indiana University School of Music

Welcome to the official web site of the School of Music at Indiana University. Through the pages available to you we hope you will find the information you need and learn more about this remarkable institution. The activities and experience of our 150 full-time faculty are readily accessible to you, as is the performance calendar and repertoire. The IU Opera Theater produces 8 main stage productions throughout the year, 6 during the fall and spring semesters and 2 in the summer. There are numerous jazz, band, choral, and orchestral performances in a very busy school year.

As you navigate the sea of information that is before you, a number of questions may arise. We ask you to be directly in touch with us by phone (812) 855–2435 or by e-mail. If time allows, I would suggest a personal visit to Bloomington to experience first hand the unique blend of performance and scholarship that exists in this university.

The Indiana University School of Music is widely respected as one of the world's most comprehensive institutions for musical studies. By providing the academic programs of a great university with the atmosphere of a conservatory, the school offers a coordinated program of study and performance.

Central to this program is a faculty of 140 teachers and scholars and a select student body. The quality of the School of Music is very high. Four times has IUSM been recognized number one in the nation among the country's music schools. More than 1,400 students from throughout the United States and from 35 foreign countries attend the School of Music during the school year.

Graduates are valued for their superior training and ability and are chosen for important positions in the nation's leading educational institutions, professional organizations and ensembles. Many achieve outstanding solo careers.

The facilities of the School of Music include four buildings housing more than 110 offices and studios, 180 practice rooms, choral and instrumental rehearsal rooms, 3 recital halls, and a music library with more than 380,000 books, scores, microfilms, and periodicals and nearly 160,000 recordings. There is also a performance practice building with 80 soundproofed rooms. The School of Music is proud of its Musical Arts Center, a complex featuring an acoustically refined auditorium and a stage with technical capabilities unequaled by any other U.S. university facility.

The recently completed Bess Meshulam Simon Music Library and Recital Center houses two excellent recital halls, a 300-seat classroom, and the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, which uses the newest digital technology. The 1,000 different public programs presented on the Bloomington campus each year indicate the school's level of activity. This figure includes numerous solo recitals given by students and faculty, concerts performed by various ensembles, and full-scale productions of opera and ballet.

The Opera Theater of the School of Music has given more than 1,000 performances of 250 different operas, including many premieres. Eight full-scale operas are presented in the Musical Arts Center each year. Indiana University School of Music offers degrees in Performance, Composition, Early Music, Jazz Studies, Audio Recording, Ballet, Music Education, Stagecraft or Costume Technology, String Instrument Technology, Musicology, Music Theory and Instrumental or Choral Conducting.

The mission of the Indiana University School of Music is to provide distinguished instruction and outstanding opportunities for performance, composition, research, and teacher training for music majors and non-music majors.

These opportunities are designed to meet the following purposes:

1. To prepare students for careers as performers, composers, scholars, teachers, church musicians, and music administrators in higher education, precollege education, the professional music world, and the private sector.

2. To provide music majors and non-music majors the opportunity to develop their knowledge, understanding, and ability in all aspects of music at a level appropriate to their needs and interests.

3. To broaden and deepen the knowledge and understanding of all aspects of music through research and publication.

4. To enrich the lives of students, faculty, community, the state, the nation, and the world with performances of a wide variety of music.

Reputation

Indiana University School of Music has always been ranked as one of the top music schools in the country. According to U.S. News' latest rankings of graduate schools, IU School of Music is in the top four for all of the disciplines of study.

Special Opportunities

• The School of Music presents over 1000 different programs annually.

• Our Opera Theater has given more than 1000 performances of 300 different operas, including 20 premieres.

• The ONLY School of Music invited to present a full opera at the Metropolitan Opera.

• Student performances at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall.

• Our students are performing and teaching all over the world.

• More than 100 former IU students appear on opera house bills throughout the US and Europe, including at least 17 students on the 2000–2001 bill of the Metropolitan Opera.

• At least 100 students in 32 major orchestras of the United States.

• 98% placement of our undergraduate music education students for the last ten years.

• Performance study in all instruments as well as degrees in ballet, composition, jazz, early music, theory, musicology, conducting, and music education.

• The facilities of the School of Music include six buildings housing more than 100 offices and studios, 200 practice rooms, rehearsal rooms, three recital halls, a practice building with 80, soundproofed rooms, and a library collection containing 170,700 Book and Scores, 18,000 microforms, 126,800 records, tapes and CDs, 1,500 videos, 218,000 orchestral and choral parts.

• The new grand concert hall and chamber recital hall accommodate musical performances of all types from solo student recitals to large ensemble events with orchestra and chorus. This year, the concert hall will feature a new organ for solo concerts as well as choral and orchestral events.

• The School has one of the ten most beautiful university campuses in the United States.

Recent Guest Faculty and Performers

Beaux Arts Trio

Robert Bernhardt, Music/Artistic Director and Conductor, Chattanooga Symphony and Opera

Franz Grundheber, Baritone

Gary Hoffman, Cello

Raymond Leppard, Music Director, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

Catherine Malfitano, Soprano

Kurt Masur, Conductor, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Kevin McKenzie, Artistic Director, American Ballet Theatre

Mstislav Rostropovich, Cellist and Conductor

Gunther Schuller, Artistic Director, Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho

Joseph Silverstein, Former Concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Utah Symphony

Augusta Read Thomas, Composer-in-residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Alumni

Sylvia McNair, Soprano

Since her graduation from IU in 1983, soprano Sylvia McNair has become a frequent guest performer with major opera houses and symphony orchestras throughout Europe and the Unites States. She is a regular guest soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Salzburg Festival, and the Metropolitan Opera. She has made more than 70 recordings and won two Grammy Awards. While at the IU School of Music, Sylvia McNair performed in seven productions of the IU Opera Theater. McNair says, "IU prepared me extremely well for being a professional in the world of music".

Joshua Bell, Violinist

Joshua Bell began studying violin at the age of four. When he was 12 years old, he became a student of Josef Gingold, IU Distinguished Professor of Music. By age 14, Bell had gained national acclaim, winning a major violin competition and making his orchestral debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Today, he is an internationally renowned violinist, playing extensively with major orchestras and giving concerts throughout the world. He has an interest in exploring new and different music in addition to the mainstream classical repertoire, and he has recorded in numerous areas of music. Bell has made many television appearances and has been featured in a number of documentaries and new programs.

Kenny Aronoff, Percussionist

IU music graduate Kenny Aronoff is widely recognized as on of the world's top rock 'n' roll drummers. Before graduating from IU in 1976, he performed in music festivals under such conductors as Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and Seiji Ozawa. Aronoff played with the John Mellencamp band from 1980 to 1996, while developing a highly successful career as a studio musician. Since 1996, he has played in major tours with artists such as Bob Seger, Melissa Etheridge, the Smashing Pumpkins, and Joe Cocker. As a top session drummer, he has recorded with hundreds of artists, including Jon Bon Jovi, Elton John, Bob Dylan, B. B. King, the Rolling Stones, Ricky Martin, and Celine Dion. The Aronoff Percussion Scholarship established in 1996 is awarded annually to a percussion student in the IU School of Music.

Robert Dodson, Dean

Dean of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Professor of Cello Robert Dodson holds two Indiana University degrees: the Bachelor of Music and the Master of Music. At IU, he studies with famed cellist Janos Starker, IU Distinguished Professor of Music, whom he calls his "beloved Teacher." "I owe my professional life and much more to many people at IU," Dean Dodson says.

Dodson was recently named dean at Oberlin after more than three decades of music performance, teaching, and administration. He previously served as dean of the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Wisconsin; principal of the Royal Conservatory of Music at the University of Toronto; founding and managing director of the Chamber Music Institute, Friends of Chamber Music, Inc. (Toronto, Canada); associate professor at Queen's University in Ontario; and cellist with the Vaghy String Quartet for 12 years. Dean Dodson advises young musicians to "follow the wisdom of your heart" and to "serve music passionately." (www.music.indiana.edu/)