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Celebrated conductor\nto hold contest auditions\nConductor Lorin Maazel will direct the North American auditions for a new international conducting competition at the School of Music this year.\nMaazel is known internationally for his conducting achievements during the past 30 years.\nPhilanthropist Alberto W. Vilar announced the $5 million competition and training program to assist in the development of gifted young conductors.\nThe IU School of Music, as well as schools in Tokyo; Cracow, Poland; London; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Sydney are the competition locations for conductors of all nationalities up to age 35. Each site will send one finalist to a week of rehearsals and concerts at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke's in Sept. 2002.\nMaazel will be in Bloomington for five days in December preparing the IU Philharmonic Orchestra for the competition and to direct the auditions.\nMaazel has appeared with the Boston, New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia symphony orchestras. He has served as music director of the renowned Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra of Munich since 1993.\nKelley School conference\nto be held in Indianapolis\nThe 55th annual conference of the Kelley School of Business will be held March 7 in Indianapolis. \nThe focus of the conference will be ways to revolutionize the way America does business.\nSpeakers at the conference include Sidney Taurel, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Eli Lilly and Co.; Edward J. Sanderson Jr., executive vice president of Oracle Corp.; and Lawrence Summers, former U.S. secretary of the treasury.\nPresenters will discuss the conference's theme, "'e' Is the Business: Revolutionizing the Value Chain."\nRegistration and networking will begin at 8 a.m., followed by a 9 a.m. presentation by Taurel, a 10:45 a.m. presentation by Sanderson and a luncheon presentation by Summers. All conference activities will be held at the Indiana Convention Center.\nThe individual registration fee for the conference is $110 and is encouraged before Feb. 20. The cost increases after that date to $120. Table registrations are $1,000 for 10 persons, or $525 for five persons. Table registrations include reserved seating at lunch and registration to the conference.\nCreole language taught\nthrough pilot project\nThe University had begun a pilot project using technology to teach Creole. The program might serve as a model for teaching less common courses at Big Ten universities.\nThe College of Arts and Sciences, Office of Distributed Education and Creole Institute have come together to offer two semesters of Haitian Creole. This year, the courses are available to Bloomington and IU-Purdue University at Indianapolis students via the Virtual Indiana Classroom network, IU's interactive video network that uses two-way video and audio to allow students and instructors to interact.