Students have a chance to see Butler University’s student composers perform their own pieces this Thursday. The Jordan College of the Arts Composer’s Orchestra presents a concert about once a month, and over fifty percent of the music is composed by the students. Brice Johnson, a graduate composer who plays in the orchestra, said being…
New IMA exhibit informative, overwhelming
Walking into the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s new special exhibit “Beauty and Belief,” the first thing that caught my eye was a projected image of a phrase written in Arabic calligraphy. “God is the Creator of Everything.” Below the image, an almost 30-foot-long scroll stretched the length of the first room. On it, legal statements,…
Butler student’s band to compete in finals of radio competition
Junior Brad DiCarlo takes the stage with his three other band members, and with blinding lights shining on their anticipation filled faces, they prepare to play the first notes of an original song. The band’s future rests on this performance. They need our help. Hailing from Kokomo, Ind., DiCarlo is part of a band called…
Time capsule holds secrets from past
Think “Indiana Jones” on Nov. 14, when the Butler University Student Foundation opens an ancient(ish) relic unearthed from the depths of Jordan Hall during recent renovations. Junior Julie Robinson, BUSF co-director of student relations, said construction staff recently discovered a date stone containing a time capsule deep within the bricks of the building. The exact…
Street Corner Symphony brings variety, melody
It doesn’t take a drum set, a piano, some guitar and a bass to play Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World.” All it takes is a few voices and a mind for creativity. While these criteria sometimes yield the likes of singers found on “American Idol” audition bloopers, they occasionally produce some…
South African leader to speak
Students have the chance to hear an anti-aparteid activist and internationally-recognized leader as part of Butler University’s Celebration of Diversity Distinguished Lecture Series on Nov. 12. Rev. Allan Boesak is an established theologian and author and spoke out against the South African apartheid as a patron of the United Democratic Front from 1983 to 1991.…
The man behind the bells
Published Nov. 6, 2012 From a small room tucked away at the bottom of the hill in Holcomb Gardens, a smiling man delicately strokes the keys of a converted organ console, as he has done for over forty years. The sounds of bells ring from a cabinet in front of him, and the music falls…
Geneva Stunts bring song, dance
Geneva Stunts returns to Butler University this Friday for its 95th year of singing, dancing and fundraising after last year’s break in tradition. Geneva Stunts is a singing and dancing competition among residents on campus. It was originally started as a fundraiser for the YMCA to help raise money for campus mission trips like Spring…
‘Seminar’ is busy, but still funny and meaningful
To judge a book by its cover is indecent, according to the old adage. To tear apart a novel six years in the making after reading the first five words while in a drug-induced daze, however, is ridiculously and hilariously out of line. This is but a snippet of Theresa Rebeck’s “Seminar,” a comedy playing…
New sculpture draws on the community, and vice versa
A 17-by-19-foot, more than 3,000-pound whale-like sculpture with 7,000 answers to the question “What have you discovered?” now stands in the ArtsPark at the Indianapolis Art Center. The piece, called “Crescendo,” was commissioned by the center as a community initiative. The IAC brought in artist Beth Nybeck from Kansas City earlier this month through a…