The women's race, with seven new teams this year, will get under way at 4 p.m. on April 24, and the men's race will begin at 2 p.m. April 25. For the first time in 16 years, the men's Little 500 bicycle race will be broadcast live on television. The exhibit opening and concert reflect one of the museum's greatest assets, its ethnomusicology collection. The exhibit will include 190 instruments from one of the largest collections in the United States. It will explore the technological and physical aspects of creating instruments and making sound, as well as the political, religious, economic and social dimensions of music.
Admission is free.
Organized by the IU Asian Student Union, the IU Office of International Services and Bloomington Worldwide Friendship Inc., the event will include classical and jazz performances by some of the IU School of Music's top faculty musicians.