Jacobs School of Music

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The Jacobs School of Music
Location
1201 E 3rd Street, Merrill Hall 003
United States Bloomington, IN
Information
Type Public
Established 1921
Dean Gwyn Richards
Enrollment Approximately 1,600
Campus Small City
Information 812-855-1583
Website http://music.indiana.edu

The Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, is an undergraduate and graduate institution for the study of music established in 1921. It has more than 1,600 students, approximately half of whom are undergraduates, with the second largest enrollment of all music schools accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.[1]

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[edit] History

In 1907, Charles Campbell arranged for a recital of the Schellschmidt Quartet of Indianapolis, the proceeds of which established a music fund, "to lead ultimately to the equipment of a school of music in the university." In 1909, he offered a series of noncredit lectures on the history of music, which eventually led to a full fledged music department. In 1919 Barzille Merrill took the position of department head and worked to create a separate school of music. He campaigned for a new music building as well, which was dedicated in 1937, and renamed Merril Hall in 1989. In 1921 the Department of Music officially became the School of Music.

In 1938 Robert L. Sanders was appointed Dean and remains the school's youngest-ever dean. Through his efforts, the school gained membership in the National Association of Schools of Music and built the Hall of Music (now known as the Indiana University Auditorium). In 1941 the Indiana University Auditorium was dedicated and offered 15 events including appearances by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and the San Carlo Opera Company.

In 1942 the school staged its first full opera. Cavalleria Rusticana. That year the Metropolitan Opera Company visited IU for the first time, performing Aida, and would return again for the next 15 years, presenting two operas each visit.

In 1982 Leonard Bernstein spent six weeks at the school to work on his final opera, A Quiet Place. In 1980, the School of Music launched a weekly radio chamber music series produced by WFIU. In its first year, the series featured student and faculty performers and was broadcast on six Indiana stations. By 1981 (and through 1984), "Music from Indiana" had achieved national syndication on American Public Radio, and in 1983, the number of stations carrying the program had jumped to 54.

In 2005 the school announced it had received a gift of $40.6 million from Barbara and David H. Jacobs for the school of music. [1] At the time, it was the largest single gift for a school of music at a public university and it is also the largest single gift ever given by individuals to IU. The school will use $20 million of the gift to endow graduate student fellowships and $10 million to endow undergraduate scholarships. The gift also establishes endowed faculty positions, including the Dean Charles H. Webb Chair in Music, the Henry A. Upper Chair in Music and the David H. Jacobs Chair in Music. The venerable Indiana University School of Music was renamed the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

In December 2007 the Lilly Endowment donated $44 million toward a new faculty studio building for the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. [2]

In 2009, the school received a gift from the family of Leonard Bernstein that included the entire contents of Bernstein's conducting studio. [3]

[edit] Academics and Programs

[edit] Admissions

Admission to the Jacobs School of Music is done by a live or recorded audition only. [4] The overall acceptance rate is generally about 25 percent for undergraduate students and about 30 percent for graduate students [5]. However, acceptance rates vary greatly between programs. Far more students apply to the vocal performance program each year than to any other program. Because of space constraints, admission to the Jacobs School tends to be especially selective for singers. Each freshman class contains about 200 new students.

[edit] Ensembles

Students in most degree programs at the Jacobs School are required to participate in an ensemble during every semester spent at the school. Depending on the student's degree program, he or she may be required to participate in specific ensembles. The majority of ensembles are auditioned.

[edit] Choirs

There are thirteen choirs at the Jacobs School [6]:

  • University Singers: Oldest continuing choral ensemble at Indiana University. Virtuoso chamber choir with repertoire from the Renaissance through the 20th century. Approximately 24 - 32 members.
  • Pro Arte Singers: Associated with the Early Music Institute, this chamber choir performs medieval, renaissance and baroque choral repertory. Approximately 30 members.
  • Contemporary Vocal Ensemble: Performs 20th/21st-century and new choral works, with many commissions and premieres to its credit. Approximately 32 members.
  • University Chorale: Chamber choir performing a variety of repertoire from Baroque to contemporary periods. Approximately 30 members.
  • Singing Hoosiers: Concert Show choir performing both American classical and popular music as well as Broadway favorites with choreography. Approximately 100 members.
  • International Vocal Ensemble: Performs music from around the world in the native language. Approximately 45 members.
  • African American Choral Ensemble: Performs contemporary and traditional African American choral music. Approximately 80 members.
  • Symphonic Choir: An undergraduate choral ensemble, performs works for large choruses. Approximately 60 members.
  • Women's Chorus: Performs music for treble voices from all periods and styles, including the annual Christmas performances of Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker”.
  • Opera Chorus: Chorus for IU Opera Theater productions.
  • All-Campus Chorus: Non-auditioned chorus. Most members are not music majors. Approximately 90 members.
  • Morning Ensembles: Designed as laboratory choruses for the conducting students.

[edit] Bands

There are eight bands at the Jacobs School [7]:

  • Wind Ensemble: Performs major works of the traditional wind band repertoire as well as new compositions by leading composers. Approximately 50 members.
  • Symphonic Band: Performs major works of the traditional wind band repertoire as well as new compositions by leading composers. Approximately 55 members.
  • Concert Band: Performs traditional works from the band repertoire as well as recent compositions by leading composers. Approximately 55 members.
  • Marching Hundred: Performs at all home football games as well as some away games with occasional professional football game appearances. Approximately 250 members.
  • Big Red Basketball Band: Members of the Marching Hundred audition to perform at men’s and women’s home basketball games. Approximately 90 members.
  • Crabb Band: Conducted by a graduate student in the Department of Bands. Members of the Marching Hundred audition to perform for men’s soccer, women’s soccer, and women’s volleyball home games. Approximately 20 members.
  • All-Campus Band: Non-auditioned band comprised mostly of non-music majors.
  • Summer Band:Performs three summer concerts of light concert overtures, marches, Broadway tunes, and movie music. Approximately 65 members.

[edit] Orchestras

There are seven orchestras at the Jacobs School [8]:

  • Chamber Orchestra: The most selective orchestra.
  • Classical/Baroque Orchestra: Performed with period instruments, the orchestra rotates between Classical Literature and Baroque literature. Part of the Early Music Institute (EMI)
  • Concert Orchestra
  • Philharmonic Orchestra: The highest level of full orchestral playing offered. Each semester Leonard Slatkin, faculty conducts a concert.
  • Symphony Orchestra
  • University Orchestra
  • The Festival Orchestra: Each summer, during the IU Summer Music Festival, this orchestra has a 3 concert season. Led by famous conductors such as Leonard Slatkin, Michael Stern and Robert Spano, each principal player within the orchestra is a faculty member or a current professional musicians such as William Preucil [IU Alum], concermaster of The Cleveland Orchestra.
  • The Celebration Orchestra: Made on an ad hoc basis for special events, this orchestra consists of all the principal leaders of each of the orchestras.

[edit] Contemporary

The Jacobs School is home to one of the nation's premier contemporary music ensembles. [9]:

  • New Music Ensemble, currently directed by Prof. David Dzubay: Composed of the top musicians from the school of music, this group contains; 1 flute, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet, 1 bassoon, 1 horn, 1 trumpet, 1 trombone, 1 tuba, 2-3 percussionists, 2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello and 1 bass

[edit] Programs of Study

The following is a list of programs of study and degrees offered at the Jacobs School of Music, as it appears on the school's website[10]:

  • Audio Technology (see Recording Arts)
  • Ballet, B.S., B.S.O.F.
  • Bassoon, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Brass Pedagogy, D.M.
  • Cello, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Clarinet, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Composition, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Computer Music Composition, M.M.
  • Conducting—Choral, M.M., D.M.
  • Conducting—Instrumental, M.M., D.M.
  • Conducting—Wind, M.M., D.M.
  • Double Bass, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Early Music, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Euphonium, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Flute, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Guitar, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Harp, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Horn, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Jazz Studies, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M.
  • Music Education, M.M.E., M.S., D.M.E.
  • Music Education—Choral Emphasis, B.M.E.
  • Music Education—General Music Emphasis, B.M.E.
  • Music Education—Instrumental, Band, B.M.E.
  • Music Education—Instrumental, String, B.M.E.
  • Music in General Studies
  • Music Literature and Pedagogy (brass only), D.M.
  • Music Theory, M.M./M.L.S., Ph.D.
  • Musicology, M.A., Ph.D.
  • Oboe, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Organ, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Organ and Church Music, M.M., D.M.
  • Percussion, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Piano, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Recording Arts, A.S., B.S.
  • Saxophone, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Stage Direction for Opera, M.S.
  • String Instrument Technology, A.S.
  • Trombone, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Trumpet, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Tuba, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Viola, B.M., M.M., B.S.O.F., D.M.
  • Violin, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Violoncello, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.
  • Voice, B.M., B.S.O.F., M.M., D.M.

[edit] Awards and honors for the Jacobs School of Music

Honors for the school include being ranked first in the nation by Change magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and U.S. News and World Report. U.S. News & World Report has consistently showered the school with praise and acclaim. The IU School of Music as a whole was recently listed first among the "Top Ten Voice Schools in America" by Classical Singer. IU Jacobs School of Music voice students are frequent winners in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in New York City each spring. The school has had five grand winners in the last five years and 33 grand winners overall. An unparalleled twenty students and alumni have received BMI Student Composer Awards. In April of 1981, the opera program became the first non-professional company to stage an opera at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City,

Rankings in various categories.

[edit] Faculty

The school has more than 170 full-time faculty members that include performers, scholars, and teachers of international renown. In addition, many top musicians and scholars come to the school each year to give master classes and guest lectures or to serve as visiting artistic directors, conductors, and faculty. Over the last few years the school has hired pianists André Watts and Arnaldo Cohen, violinist Jaime Laredo, and sopranos Sylvia McNair and Carol Vaness as faculty members. Violinist Joshua Bell and conductor Leonard Slatkin recently joined the Jacobs faculty.

Other notable faculty members both past and present include:

[edit] Facilities

The school's facilities, including five buildings located in the heart of the IU Bloomington campus, comprise outstanding recital halls, more than 170 practice rooms, choral and instrumental rehearsal rooms, and more than 100 offices and studios.

[edit] Musical Arts Center

The Musical Arts Center, known as the MAC, is the school's largest performance facility. It was was completed in 1972, on the former site of the Theta Chi Fraternity house, at a cost of $11.2 million. It is equipped with an opera theater with European-style seating for 1,460 and room for a 100-piece orchestra, as well as studios, classrooms, and rehearsal facilities for music and ballet, with the backstage area occupying more than half of the building. The 90x60 foot stage is often compared to that of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.

Peau Rouge Indiana, a large sculpture by Alexander Calder, sits on the lawn in front of the MAC. It was renovated over the course of two months during the Fall 2007 semester. [15]

[edit] Simon Music Center

The Simon Music Center (pictured at the top of the page) opened after an extensive renovation in 1995 and houses the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Auer Hall, Ford-Crawford Hall, Sweeney Lecture Hall, the Latin American Music Center, classrooms, and administrative and faculty offices.

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] References & Notes

  1. ^ HEADS Data – Special Report, 2008-09, National Association of Schools of Music Note: For more than 30 years, Indiana School of Music enrollment has tracked closely to that of the University of North Texas College of Music. Institutions that include Berklee, Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music are not among the 627 NASM members. Only one non-NASM music school (in North America) is known to have a student enrollment larger than North Texas and Indiana: Berklee.
    North Texas Jacobs School of Music|Indiana
    2006-07 1,649 1,638
    2007-08 1,659 1,633
    2008-09 1,608 1,554

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