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Latin Love Songs Soprano Sylvia McNair teams up with IU's Latin American Music Center for an hour of conversation and musica del amor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When Sex And War Meet The new exhibit at the Kinsey Institute gallery looks at love and sex in wartime. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kaia Goes Far And Wide—And Deep—With “Freedom Land” Purists objected to Kaia's pairing of a shape note hymn and Radiohead. "What have you done to our music?" wrote Youtube viewers. "Who do you think you are?" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill W. And Dr. Bob: Review A pair of actors playing a slick New Yorker and a fuzzy Mid-Westerner hammer out a scene together. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – Discussing The 2012 Oscars Part 1 On this week's episode we've got James Paasche and Craig Simpson in the studio to talk about the Oscars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Boy In The Bathroom: Review The boy, the girl and a door that's not a door in Michael Lluberes's play! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Mama’s Boy Has A Wild Night Benjamin Britten's comic "Albert Herring" brings the bucolic to the Buskirk-Chumley. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cool and Swingin’ The Columbus Indiana Philharmonic presents a 'big band evening' with saxophonist Richie Cole and the vocal group Five by Design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Les Liaisons Dangereuses ‘more intrigue and deceit than a Hollywood marriage’ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Boy In The Bathroom The songs are surprising...they just sort of sneak up on you! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Artist In The Making: Introducing Kelsey Adams "There's some of me in every character I write--male, woman, no matter the age--there's a little bit of me in there." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Plus Ça Change: Fine Arts Faculty Show At Grunwald Gallery The work of three faculty members demonstrates the shifting boundaries among the disciplines, along with the endurance of certain themes and ways of working. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Founding Of Alcoholics Anonymous Friends of Bill. W. and Dr. Bob. No last names needed! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – David Copperfield With Live Orchestra On this week's episode, we've got Composer Ari Fisher, and Conductor Nick Hersch joining us to talk about the David Copperfield event at the Cinema. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amplifier: Asobi Seksu – C. Bradley – Carolina Choc. Drops Dream-pop with Asobi Seksu. The blues comes back to town with Charles Bradley. And, fresh-sounding old time music with the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘Like’ It If You Like It: Studio Cypher’s Share-Worthy Games The game designers at the Bloomington, Indiana tech company Studio Cypher are working to make fundraising online a bit more interactive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Artist in the Making: Roger Kalia In His Own Words This week, we meet Roger Kalia, a doctoral student in orchestral conducting at the Jacobs School of Music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website For 40 Years, He Put The Grand In Grand Opera Retiring after a four-decade career designing sets and costumes for the IU Opera Theater, David Higgins reflects on the past and future Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It All Started With a Footnote While Annie Levy was searching for her own heritage in Latvia, Latvia was searching too. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pride Film Festival Video Shoot Out First time filmmakers Anna Saraceno and Anna Vanderzee were last year's Pride Video Shoot Out winners with their comedy "The Lady Bunch." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IMPACT: A Trained Eye On The NYPD Photographer Antonio Bolfo seeks to offer a more nuanced portrait of the life of a police officer assigned to patrol a housing project in the South Bronx. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sweet Music of Healing As we worked through our grief and loss, we decided to do a special program in her honor. Voces Novae Conductor Sue Swaney Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julia Karr: The ‘Truth’ About Writing For Young Adults "Girls should have the ability and the education and the information to make logical choices themselves about what they want to do with their bodies." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – Discussing The City Lights Series On this week's episode, we invite the programmers of the City Lights series, James Paasche and Landon Palmer to the studio to discusss the series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phoenix: Review Sometimes an intense 'hook up' can lead to a worried 'disconnect!' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Contemporary Voices "We wanted to bring a 'here and now' approach...".Contemporary Dance Director Elizabeth Shea Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leaping Into A New Year Dances that bring a variety of influences and cultures to the feet.. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website French Impressions: Saint-Saëns, Franck, Ravel I would say that Josh and I are interested in the beauty of the sounds that come from our respective instruments....Jeremy Denk Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – Student Film Lester Kannon On this week's episode we're talking to Danielle Head and Graham Walsh about their fascinating student film Lester Kannon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phoenix Rises Emily Woodson and Gabe Gloden bring a bit of their own relationship into their roles in "Phoenix." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – 2011 Year In Review On this week's episode, we look back at 2011 at the Cinema and on the podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Artist In The Making: Jeweler’s Rigor, Tattoo Flash At semester's end, BFA metalsmith Katie Hayden displays a seriously playful portfolio and dares to contemplate the path ahead. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shuffle.Play.Listen The title does invite 'shuffle' play, but the creators think they've dealt a well sorted hand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – Discussing The Iris Film Festival On this week's episode, we invite the director of the Iris Film Festival Laura Ivins-Hulley to talk about the Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film Interview – Batman Producer Michael Uslan In this interview, I sit down with producer of the Batman films, Michael Uslan about his journey to becoming the man behind the Batman films. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kid Kazooey’s ‘Lullaby Christmas Carols’ Kid reveals a bit of his softer side on this (nearly) all-instrumental recording of seasonal favorites. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Indiana University Children’s Choir: A Winter Concert "Singing is a learned behavior. With the right experiences, the right opportunities, anyone can learn to sing." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mandolinist Solly Burton Local, state and international chapters in the education of a young musician. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Area Musicians Keep Christmas Music Fresh, Year In, Year Out Worship Minister Dan Wallace says putting together the music for the Christmas services at the First Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana is a group effort. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – Discussing The Spring 2012 Schedule On this week's episode, we invite the Director of the Cinema Jon Vickers to talk about the Spring 2012 Schedule Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Capricho Latino A tour of Latin-flavored music for solo violin that grew out of a cruise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website There’s No Place Like Home For The Holidays Quick. Think Christmas. Chances are it's not a pink plastic tree in a mid-century modern ranch that first comes to mind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Noon Concert Series Celebrates Hoagy Carmichael The annual Hoagy Carmichael birthday concert is an opportunity for local musicians to perform tunes beyond the greatest hits. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cardinal Stage Salutes Another Red Head The musical whose spirit conquers the hard knock life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film: December Recommendations On this week's episode, we're talking to Craig Simpson from the Lilly and recommending some movies in our Recommendation game. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do-It-Together Artists: Bloomington Print Collective The Bloomington Print Collective is a group of artists who pools finances and equipment to create a public art space. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Indiana Town ‘Where Heaven And Earth Are Close’ A new book tells in words and images the story of of the Indiana town where "Heaven and Earth are close together." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nothing Says Freedom Like Marks On A Wall: Cairo Street Art There was no street art in Cairo before January 25th. But afterwards, "they painted tree-trunks, they painted cars, they painted furniture in public." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lysistrata: Review From Ancient Greece to contemporary Iraq: the quintessential "Make Love Not War" play. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – The Fall 2011 3D Showcase On this week's episode, we're inviting Chris Eller and Dylan Cashbaugh to talk about the 3D Showcase at the Cinema on December 6th. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I Am Grock: Review Honesty, even "Brutal Honesty" can be pretty funny. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jacobs Student To Be Featured On ‘Performance Today’ Cellist Cicely Parnas was selected as one of a handful of Performance Today Young Artists in Residence and will appear in the program December 5-9. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bloomington Symphony Heads ‘To Infinity and Beyond’ A concert, yes. But before downbeat a chance for kids to get their own hands on the instruments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bloomington Symphony Heads ‘To Infinity and Beyond’ A concert, yes. But before downbeat a chance for kids to get their own hands on the instruments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Columbus Phil. Presents ‘Silver Bells’ "It's a real pleasure to work with her." David Bowden Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Best Of Jacobs On Display In ‘Holiday Celebration’ Holiday concert features big band, latin jazz, harp, guitar, and a whole lot more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lysistrata: Making Peace In The Bedroom “I don’t want to say it’s going to be really funny, but it’s going to be really funny.” director Fontaine Syer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeremy Sweet Fades To Black Sweet’s past work was bursting with color, but in deference to the coming winter, he has created his entire show in shades of gray. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shards Of The American Dream: Paul Smedberg’s ‘Ghosts’ "When a home is repossessed," Paul Smedberg observes, "objects--from toy parts to sofas--are left in a haphazard interior design of abandonment." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Celebrate The Holidays With The Terre Haute Symphony A concert with somethings old, somethings new and a curious premiere. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Artists In The Making: Bre’Anna Robinson’s Audio Diary "I’ve made time to listen to NPR every morning, hoping to hear his voice on the radio, so I can go over to the canvas still in the corner of my room and begin to paint." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reva Shiner Comedy Award Winner At The BPP A play that seeks some of its truths at gun point! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – Filmmaker Monika Treut On this week's episode, we invite filmmaker Monika Treut to talk about her work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gorillas In The Mix: Ned Fleetwood’s Fiberglass Sculptures Ned makes more than twenty different animals out of fiberglass. Lately, though, Ned’s been feeling a little negative about the future of this business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Meissner Legacy: A Preview Just like a plumber or any other crafts person you have to have tools. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – The Orson Welles Series On this week's episode we invite Orson Welles expert James Naremore on the show to talk about the famed director and actor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amplifier: Murder By Death – Paul Simon – Student Composers Murder By Death comes home, Paul Simon is super famous and IU Student Composers reach out to new ears. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Second Viennese School Returns! A faculty/student collaboration brings to life the music of Schoenberg and Berg alongside the paintings of Kandinsky. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website St. John Passion – Bach’s Emotional Masterpiece A drama thoughtfully translated from 18th century Germany to 21st century Indiana. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Graphics Of Revolution And War: Iranian Poster Arts The Iranian posters on view at the IU Art Museum reveal how "a democratic revolution was Islamized through a wide range of discursive and visual tools." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ukuleles Appearing On Laps Of Musicians Everywhere If you keep your ears open for it, for will hear ukuleles in music of all genres these days. It has also become a popular instrument for amateurs to pick up. But throw away whatever preconceived notions you may have about the uke -- it is not, and has never been, a toy instrument. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Three Musketeers: Review A colorful, energetic spectacle with plenty of flash and dash. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 13 Ways Of Looking At The Goldberg "Making the world safe for classical music, one note at a time." Lara Downes goal! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – Director Nicholas Ray On this week's episode we invite grad student Will Scheibel to talk about director Nicholas Ray, and his upcoming film noir class. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Stages Dumas Classic It's one for all and all for one on stage at the Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hiding In The Spotlight: Review An old Chinese saying has it that "the darkest place in a room is the spot under the lamp." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film Interviews – Funny Or Die Producers In this interview, we talk to the President of Production at Funny or Die, Mike Farah; and his brother and frequent Funny Or Die contributor Chris Farah. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – Exploring The Grindhouse Series On this week's episode we invite grad student David Church to chat with us about the Grindhouse series of films at the Cinema. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Red Hot Patriot: Review Cardinal Stage brings "the kick ass wit of Molly Ivins" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hiding In The Spotlight the harrowing story of a Ukrainian Jewish girl’s escape from the Holocaust Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spoils Of War: Stories Behind The Art Of Nazi Germany McComas uncovered interesting stories and histories of a number of works. "This isn't the type of information you usually read on a label in the gallery," she says. "It's a reminder that these works haven't always hung on the walls of our museum." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Home Of Her Own: Reclaiming ‘A Latter-Day Frontier’ Nancy Hiller and Kendall Reeves' A Home of Her Own is an anthology of radical tales of female reinvention, disguised as a coffee table book for decorators. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Terre Haute Symphony Paul Walker will be moving those drums out to center stage for this concert. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – The Voice Of The Midwest In Film On this week's episode, we talk with local producer Sean Connolly about developing a voice for film specific to the midwest and Indiana. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – Heartland 2011: God In The Box In this interview, we talk to director Nathan Lang about his film God In The Box that played at the 2011 Heartland Film Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Red Hot Patriot The wit, the wisdom, the story telling, and the sheer exuberant joy of Molly Ivins! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “In The Next Room” Or “The Vibrator Play”: Review If talking about the vibrator makes you tense, you can always focus on that hat! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mother Courage And Her Children TOP's grim contribution to "Making War, Making Peace" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A View From The Bridge: Review A tragedy set in a 'little Italy' with a Greek touch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Soul Revue Celebrates 40 Years The IU Soul Revue prides itself on performing music from all eras of black popular music. The key is selecting tunes that are timeless. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Phantom Of The Opera I really wanted to play that organ, but I had to have a plan! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Public Remembering At The Altar Of Community The items left are meaningful to someone, giving others a tiny glimpse into the lives of those who have passed on. Anyone can leave a memento or note, just make sure it’s not a family heirloom, because the artists keep everything for the next year’s display. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – Heartland Film Festival in Review On this week's episode, Jason and Andy sit down to discuss the Heartland Film Festival, and the films they saw. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indiana State’s 45th Annual Contemporary Music Festival The composer George Crumb said that percussion is the basso continuo of twentieth century music. And he is so right. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reflections On “Reflection” "The energies that you get from mixing musical ages and accomplishments together is quite unique and special" Sulaiman Zai Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nine Plays In Twenty-Four Hours! "The audience gets to watch, enjoy a seventh inning stretch, complete with the singing of 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game,' and even vote for the winning team and the most valuable player." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Artist In The Making: Through The Fire Katie Hayden leads a tour past anvils, torches, and a centrifuge to reveal just how grueling it is to earn a BFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design at IU. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘In The Next Room’ Or ‘The Vibrator Play’ The challenge is to avoid simply being caught up in the flow and not looking into the intentio Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Puccini-esque ‘View From The Bridge’ "The words are largely Arthur Miller's, but if we didn't have some cuts along with some operatic expansions it'd be eight hours long!" Vincent Liotta Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sounds Of South Presents ‘West Side Story’ Sounds of South gets out its compass and heads east to the streets of New York for "West Side Story." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – The Comic Book Rises Series On this week's episode we sit down to talk about the upcoming Comic Book Rises Series at the Cinema with Chelsey McKrill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Living Newspaper “For this show, we’ve been able to do a collaboration that I’ve wanted for quite some time. We’re working with [traditional music and dance performers] Fiddlin’ Feet—Tamara Loewenthal, Jamie Gans and Chris Westhoff—and that’s been great.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Through The Woods To A Refuge Of The Mind Memories of childhood journeys in the South African Highveld underlie references to urban alleys and a moonlit lake in Tamar Kander's abstract paintings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Melchior Marionette Theatre: A DIY Success Story Peggy Melchior never thought her puppet theater would be celebrating 28 years in Nashville. If she had, perhaps she would have built a permanent roof. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Review: ‘Hair’ Opens IUT Season Patricia Wilcox’s direction and choreography for Hair put a premium on group energy, but with plenty of attention to small details and character development. Individual efforts were given nicely showcased settings that never hindered the show’s forward propulsion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – Heartland 2011: ‘Nathan And The Luthier’ In this interview we talk to Jacob Sherry and Jon Stante, the writer/director and producer of Nathan and the Luthier, showing at Heartland this October. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – Heartland 2011 – The Selling Interview In this interview, we talk to Gabe Diani, the writer, producer and lead actor of the comedy/horror film The Selling, showing at Heartland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Life Like This: Sallyann Murphey’s Bean Blossom Dreams Sallyann Murphey might be a Londoner by birth, but her writing about Brown County is part of the legacy of American transcendentalists like Thoreau and Emerson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunrise At The IU Cinema "Sunrise" is very much a romance and I’ll be leaning on all those exercises that I had to play and dipping into composers like Mendelssohn for much of what I’ll be playing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – The Dark Carnival Film Fest On this week's episode, we invite two members of the Dark Carnival Film Festival to discuss their event, happening October 21-23 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heartland Interview – ‘Somebody’s Hero’ On this interview, we sit down with Darin Beckstead and Guillermo Suescum, the filmmakers behind Somebody's Hero, showing at the Heartland Film Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Lesson Before Dying "The title of the play uses the word 'a' lesson instead of 'the' lesson because each of these men learns something." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IUPUI Prof’s New Book: ‘Becoming Ray Bradbury’ The development of science-fiction and fantasy author Ray Bradbury is chronicled in a new book by IUPUI professor Jonathan R. Eller. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘Hair’: A Time Capsule Of The 60s The great thing about "Hair" is that it encapsulates the 60s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Ballet: Steps In Time "...a feast of dance and choreographic entertainment..." Michael Vernon Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – Heartland Film Fest With Ray Mills In this interview episode, we're talking to Ray Mills, the Artistic Director of the Heartland Film Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cows That Type, Hens On Strike! “It’s part of Cardinal’s commitment to providing high quality artistic experiences for children” says Cardinal’s new director of communications and marketing Eleanor Berman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Columbus Symphony Orchestra’s 89th Season Bring Your Passport : For Music From Around The World Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – David Anspaugh Heartland Interview On this special interview, we're talking to David Anspaugh about his new film Little Red Wagon, premiering at the Heartland Film Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Artist In The Making: Bassoonist Meridith Wright “It's like I'm in school mode all the time. I'm always feeling like I should be working or doing something,” says freshman bassoon student Meridith Wright. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seeing Is Rediscovering What’s Hiding In Plain Sight Here, delight is camouflaged in the cloak of the everyday, whether you’re waiting for the elevator, trudging down the hall, or scanning a bulletin board. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bombshell: Review The most moving and enigmatic mime movement of the evening was Markus McClain, who comfortingly embraced himself through the arm of the marine dress jacket. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Columbus Indiana Philharmonic’s Living Legend Season Opener When you’ve practiced and played for audiences during most of your life. You do it because you enjoy it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Generation Looks At ‘Little Women’ I also like it that he leaves out Jo’s marriage to Professor Bhaer. It’s a part that Louisa May Alcott herself objected to. She didn’t think that marriage had to be the ending Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – Home Movie Day On this week's episode, we invite grad student James Paasche to talk about Home Movie Day, coming to the IU Cinema October 15th at 3:00pm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brasstissimo (Ma Non Troppo) Now each concert is built around a theme, but the actual titles come from our marketing committee and they like have fun with them! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unearthing Dracula Throughout the next hour, we will explore the evolution from the Dracula character in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel to the many movies featuring the Count, and the very real historical figure who is now inextricably linked to the father of all vampires, Vlad Tepes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosi Fan Tutte: Review Salieri actually set a couple of scenes before passing on the project and from reports on his music, we’re lucky that he gave up and Mozart got to do the job. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Shaw As Elvis: More Song, Less Schtick Robert Shaw certainly has an Elvis air about him: dark hair, coy smile and a deep voice. But whatever you do, don’t call him an impersonator. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Artist In The Making: Introducing Bre’Anna Robinson "You're taking something from your head that is you, you're putting it on paper and you're creating this world. People read that, and they know who you are." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Geeky Musical Version Of ‘Bones’ Also there were these catalogs of pieces by Weiss, so I had at least a sense of a taste preference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – The 2011 Toronto Film Fest On this week's episode, we invite the Director of the IU Cinema Jon Vickers back to talk about his time at the Toronto Film Fest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making Mozart Human Sopranos Sharon Harms and Katherine Polit discuss their roles in 'Così fan tutte,' and how the they came together as a cast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fagen Conducts ‘A Spectacular Funny Comedy’ in ‘Così’ Conductor Arthur Fagen discusses Mozart's final collaboration with librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte and why it's not as well-known as the others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘Catch A Rising Star’ With The Terre Haute Symphony Conductor Bowden is enthusiastic about the whole program and Daniel Power’s overture. “It’s a delightful airy piece that we played and that I’ve taken to share with other orchestras.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eilen Jewell: The World Needs More Americana Her brand of American roots music, with its blues, rockabilly, country and jazz influences, will fit right in at the Lotus World Music & Arts Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lotus Volunteers: Homegrown Citizens Of The World The magic dust that transforms Bloomington into a multicultural mecca for Lotus weekend also converts mere mortals into an elite corps of volunteers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amplifier: Lotus World Music & Arts Festival The 18th annual Lotus World Music & Arts Festival will feature performances by 26 groups, including the Creole Choir Of Cuba, Dikanda and the Orchid Ensemble. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘Così Fan Tutte:’ Fidelity, Sure!…Wanna Bet? The team of designer David Higgins and stage director Tomer Zvulun who brought you Die Zauberflute and La Boheme reunite for a new production of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Mesmerizing Effect: ‘Woven Treasures’ At The Waldron "Each one of these carpets has the effect of calming me. I just love to look at them. I'm sort of mesmerized by them." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – The Herrmann And Hitchcock Series On this week's episode we invite Professor James Naremore back to talk about the Hitchcock/Herrmann series, and we also extensively discuss Drive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Artist In The Making: Introducing Katie Hayden, Metalsmith Getting her parents' blessing to pursue a studio art major wasn’t an issue for Katie Hayden. “My mother is a jeweler, so she was encouraging about it." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Celebrating The Maker Spirit At The Indy Mini Maker Faire The most inventive art, craft, and technology of the present will be on display at the Indy Mini Maker Faire. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beethoven: Quartets With A Personal Appeal Although the group's repertoire is international, they're very much from the midwest. "Two of us went to Oberlin in Ohio. The cellist's parents taught at Oberlin and currently we're base in Illinois" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – Themester: Making War/Making Peace On this week's episode we sit down with Maria Bucur to talk about Themester and this year's topic: Making War/Making Peace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Concerto And A Violinist With “Elegance And Virtuosity” Music is a living and breathing thing and I’m a living and breathing person, so with those two elements you have something that’s always fluctuating. And it’s always different. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inter:Facing On The Margins Of Perception Dolinsky's immersive environments emerge from a cognitive no man's land. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Harry Geduld’s Comically Surreal Stories WFIU's Adam Schwartz attends a reading of IU professor emeritus Harry Geduld, who reads a selection of his strange, funny, savage tales. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nigel North From Apache To Lady Hunsdon’s Puff “ It’s hard to imagine now, but then it was magic, it was something simply divine, the quality of his sound, and the way that he wrote his pieces were just thought to be from God.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All My Sons: Review The War... was just a matter of nickels and dimes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – Recommendations On this week's episode we play the Recommendation game with Betsy Fippinger. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spoken Word Stage Adds New Wrinkle To Fourth Street Fest Will the crowd at the Fourth Street Festival be interested in slowing down, pulling up a chair and taking a listen to the performers at the Spoken Word Stage? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Program Readies Music Students For Life On The Outside Project Jumpstart enters its second year of creating well-rounded music entrepreneurs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – The Midnight Movie Series On this week's episode, we invite grad student David Church to talk with us about the upcoming Midnight Movie series at the IU Cinema. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Actor And A Designer Look At ‘All My Sons’ Yes, I am possessed of a secret and ‘possessed’ is a good word.” actor Maureen Gallagher about her role as Kate Keller. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happily Ever Chloe: Review The story has a fairy tale quality as it touches on a story of a child finding out that she is in fact a princess, but it also touches potently on questions of identity—who we are-- and the resonance of the word ‘home.’ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Reconstructed Life: To Be Young And Rich In Bedford, 1908 The view through Mary Lemon's eyes is a privileged perspective of Bedford in its heyday, a time when it was known as the Limestone Capital of the World. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Alums Workshop Musical I’d always sung and done some theatre in high school, but when it comes to college parents can be pretty cautious. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reflections On ‘Fanfare, Capriccio And Rhapsody’ We didn’t get Doc Seversen, but we had a young man named Vincent DiMartino and he’s gone on to become the famous Vincent DiMartino of the trumpet world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – Cold War Cinema On this week's episode, we invite Professor Barb Klinger about the upcoming Cold War Cinema series at the IU Cinema. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elaine Doenges’ Mid-Century Modern Legacy Despite Doenges' machine-age design style, the appeal for her clients--during the post-WW2 tract house era--lay in the way she personalized each home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Break Away Books: The Literary Memory Of The Midwest "Writers are tenders of the necropolis—people who take care of the city of the dead." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Break Away Books: The Literary Memory Of The Midwest "Writers are tenders of the necropolis—people who take care of the city of the dead." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cardinal’s Season Of American Dreams All in all it’s quite a night before the day of ‘I do.’..."Batchlorette" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – John Sayles Interview On this week's episode, we're talking to Independent film director John Sayles, who's coming to the IU Cinema from Sept 8-10. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tig Notaro: Stand-Up Comedy Rock Star Tig Notaro is the only comedian signed by the indie music label Secretly Canadian, and she loves being part of the scene. She will be performing in Bloomington to celebrate the release of her first album on the label, "Good One." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kokomo Civic ‘Steps Out’ Playing a woman, especially a funny one gives me a whole new set of opportunities. It’s kind of a blast. (mailman Doug Harvey) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Square Dance Caller Michael Ismerio Do-Sa-Dos With Tradition Michael Ismerio has dedicated his life to the mastery of old time music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film: The IU Cinema Fall 2011 Schedule On this week's episode, Jon Vickers, the Director of the IU Cinema joins us to discuss the Fall 2011 Schedule. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Tuneful Parable There’s a sort of mysterious wisdom figure from the East that I call The Traveler, Arimat—a kind of villainous villain, and Rebecca a compassionate servant girl. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Made Him: Raymond Leppard’s New Memoir WFIU’s Adam Schwartz speaks with acclaimed conductor Raymond Leppard about his new memoir, Music Made Me. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Happy Benefits To Writing Their Lives "You see this incredible blossoming in these young women, as writers and as girls who are really thoughtful, and who have something to say about the world." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Prom Queen Stands By Her Zombie! A motorcycle accident with local nuclear power plant has not deterred him from the love of his high school sweetheart, but it has left him with a distinctive glow Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sculpture Trails: Solsberry’s International Melting Pot If you’re an artist who makes cast iron sculpture, you can’t just do it anywhere. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place for Film: The Indy Film Fest in Review On this week's episode we're reviewing our experience at the Indy Film Fest. Hear about all the movies we saw. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jacobs School Of Music At The Workshop The traditional Vietnamese music drama doesn't have a chorus, but western audiences expect one, so I invented a tradition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Festival Orchestra: Standards In Finale This summer we’ll play Respighi's “The Pines of Rome.” I think that anyone who’s been to that great city will hear echoes in the music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indiana Realities: Darkness On The Edge Of Town Everyday life in the 1930s wasn’t a day at the beach, as these paintings bear out. We see train wrecks, shot gun shacks, and alleys draped with telephone wire. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Abby Gitlitz And The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch sample text sample text sample text sample text sample text Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nate Powell Builds His Graphic Novel “Empire” Bloomington was represented at this year's Comic-Con International by award winning graphic novel author Nate Powell who was peddling his new book "Any Empire." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Patrick Barlow’s ‘The 39 Steps’ At Shawnee It’s really part of a sort of love letter to the Hitchcock original. (director Brandon Bruce) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Comedy Of Errors: Review The Comedy of Errors is very physical, pfarsical, pfunny, and pfast! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film: Our Most Hated Movies On this week's episode, we have a bit of fun talking about our most hated movies. Did we pick a favorite or a least favorite of yours? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Review: ‘Ah, Wilderness!’ Throughout Ah, Wilderness! the family balance between Abby Rowald and Henry Woronicz as Essie and Nat Miller is a key to the show’s success. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sean Dickinson Represents For Singer-Songerwriters A veteran of the New York City busking scene, Sean Dickinson enjoys the smiles and spare change shared by Bloomington passers-by. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matteo Ricci: Map And Music Our production offers words and music from both his Italian and his Chinese world: the world that he came from and the world that he went to. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Plush Tomatoes For This Scary Thriller We’re not going to have a big green creature with bolts sticking out of his neck Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bramwell Tovey Conducts The IU Festival Orchestra Actually, the tuba was a convenient instrument in college because it wasn’t included in all the rehearsals and that gave me more time for score study. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O’Neill’s ‘Ah, Wilderness!’ At Indiana Festival Theatre Really switching characters is easier than we’d like people to think. The characters are so different and I’ve worked very hard on the differences, so the change is pretty automatic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place for Film: The Indiana Filmmakers Network On this week's episode, we sit down with Chris Eller and Sean Connolly to discuss the new Bloomington chapter of the Indiana Filmmakers Network. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Challenges Don’t Faze Group Even when a group of like minded individuals agree to come together to play music, there can be difficult, even divisive decisions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place for Film: Indy Film Fest We sit down with the Managing Director of the Indy Film Fest to give a little taste of what's coming up in the next week at the festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Through The Ages, One Crank At A Time Early Music in Motion presents singer and hurdy-gurdy player Tomás Lozano at the T.C. Steele State Historic Site. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Smedberg’s Extended Re-Mix Of Reality Paul Smedberg's photo-remixes combine a true fondness for quotidian imagery with a yearning to burst through simple appearances to a value-added reality. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amplifier: Steven Earle – Junior Brown – Unknown Mortal Orch Steve Earle will never get out of this world alive. Junior Brown plays the guit-steel. And, see the Unknown Mortal Orchestra before they hit it big. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wylie House: A ‘Slice Of Life’ Lived Long Ago Many of the artifacts provide clues as to how the Wileys lived. If the toothbrush is a hint at their private lives, some of the more beautiful pieces on display are glimmers of a more public existence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Festival Theatre Pairs Characters And Plays "Communicating Shakespeare takes the whole body." Molly Casey Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film: Exploring The Black Film Center Archive On this week's episode we invite Archivist Mary Huelsbeck from the Black Film Center Archive to discuss the mission and holdings of the BFCA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fantasticks: Review Throughout The Fantasticks one of the most eloquent characters was the wordless mute played by Nigel Brown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Evening, Two Arabian Nights Having a cast that mostly fresh from "Godspell" has had its effects on our production. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wonder In The Details: A Stroll Down The Limestone Trail How is the campus limestone tour like mushroom hunting? Once you “get your eyes on,” previously camouflaged details start to pop out everywhere. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Director Goes Back In Time To A Timeless Show The characters echo vaudeville and old time romance. The story has that sort of illogical but emotionally solid feel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ladyes Delight, Children’s Fun And A Gentleman’s Pleasure The instruments are so interesting and the music is both tuneful and rhythmic so we always have a good time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film: Fall 2011 City Lights Series On this week's episode we invite James Paasche and Landon Palmer to talk about the Fall 2011 City Lights Series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Actor/Director: The Crossover At Crossroads Directing is very rewarding, but it’s very exhausting. I have much more fun and a lot less stress as an actor just because it’s the mindset that I’ve always been in. Brandon Wentz Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wending A Stony Way Through Campus By the end of the tour, visitors will know what is and what is not a gargoyle, and the only decorative aspect of Ballantine Hall. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First Dates? Yes, But Speed Dating…? No! I do have a bit of the educator in me and so I’m especially grateful to have the chance to work with this mix of experienced and younger players.' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mavis Staples To Headline Lotus Festival 2011 Staples is a legendary performer who's received Grammy nominations in blues, gospel, folk and pop alike. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Freedia The Queen Diva: You Better Bounce Big Freedia and her bounce music dance party bring a little bit of New Orleans to Bloomington. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Realism Reigns At Shawnee It’s about family. It’s about how poisoning lies and guilt can be, and it’s about patriotism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Music Man: Review Along with the variety and mix of music "the Music Man" is full of varied and extended dance pieces. In some shows they verge on the fantastic and mystical. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film: Angelo Pizzo On this week's episode, Angelo Pizzo, writer of Hoosiers and Rudy joins us to talk about his screenwriting process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Review: Picasso At The Lapin Agile Picasso at the Lapin Agile is a very funny show. Every character is interesting and has something to say. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Man Opens Summer Theatre At IU When Robert Preston auditioned for the role of Professor Harold Hill, Meredith Willson had him sing “Ya Got Trouble” saying that if he could handle that song, he’d be fine for the part. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Black-And-White World In Color: The Cushman Collection Artworks' Adam Schwartz visits an IU photo archive that shows what a black-and-white past looked like in vivid Kodachrome color. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film: In The News On this week's episode, we invite Cinema staffer Matthew Kerchner to discuss some recent news stories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Columbus Architecture: North Christian Church The story of architecture in Columbus, Indiana seems to always come back to industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller. It’s fitting then that the final installment of Artworks tour of the Columbus architecture series ends at the church Miller attended, the same church that also hosted his funeral: the North Christian Church. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Godspell: Review According to the Gospel of Mathew, Judas then departs and hangs himself. But in this production as the lights dimmed and the music became more frantic, it was Judas who nailed Jesus to the wall despite his anguished cries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 44th Indianapolis Early Music Festival Each year for the festival we seek to balance music from the baroque and the renaissance with an occasional entry written during the medieval period. This summer we’re at three and thre Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Fair Lady: A ‘Delightful Production’ From top to bottom, the cast is an exceptionally attractive, strong and disciplined. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website At The Dawn Of The 20th Century, Art Meets Science "There’s actually a serious discussion of what an artist brings to his creation, and then a humorously presented—but very interesting—discussion of ways in which Einstein’s science and Picasso’s art are really much closer than we might think." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer Theater At IU: New Name, New Digs It’s our hope that after the work this summer, our guests will go back and work some more and next year we’ll have a fully finished piece to bring back for audiences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Speak The Speech, I Pray Thee George Bernard Shaw was one of our greatest playwrights and really the speeches that he gives Higgins and Liza is word music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursdays At Third Street: Something For Everyone Thursdays at Third Street is a series that honors both the creativity of the Bloomington community and the loyalty of Bloomington audiences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music With A Spanish, Portuguese, And English Accent "I wanted to appeal to the audience that still has affection for the music that Andres Segovia made so much a part of the repertoire." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Men At Work—And On View—At Pictura Gallery The new photo exhibition at Bloomington’s pictura gallery shows us just how hard it is to be a man. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Columbus Architecture: Avenue Of Architects 1942 marked the beginning of the architectural movement in Columbus, Indiana with the building of the First Christian Church. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place for Film – Film Criticism On this week's episode we invite Craig Simpson from the Lilly to discuss the current state of film criticism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Review: My Name Is Asher Lev It’s a nice feature of the play that at the same time that Asher is seeking to grow and develop, his mother too is expanding her horizon beyond the home and community to study, travel and work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Designing Woman: Clair Hummel in “Godspell” In high school there was never much of a budget, so once I’d come up with designs my mom and I would scour every store within a hundred miles that had bargain fabrics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Darkness To Light: Crossroads Repertory Theatre 2011 Stories like "Aladin and the Lamp" and "The Two Sisters" are the tales that the young harem girl tells the sultan to stay alive…pretty definitely a ‘darkness to light’ effort" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website For The Pleasure Of Looking: The 2011 Kinsey Juried Art Show The broad array of contemporary media represented in this year's juried show extends to saucy neon signs, video of mating moths, and a rhinestone football. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘Women Inspire’ A Festival Of Art, Business And Community A six-year-old nonprofit dedicated to connecting and empowering women sponsors a lively annual festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When Words Do Not Suffice: Literary Sketches At The Lilly Quirky artifacts—from Sylvia Plath's childhood sketches to Amiri Baraka’s decorated agenda book—offer alternate routes inside the minds of literary giants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Bean Blossom Bloomed: A History Of The Festival The tale of the world's longest-running bluegrass music festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place for Film: Summer Comedies On this week's episode of A Place for Film, Andy and Jason sit down with Chelsey McKrill again and talk about comedies coming out this summer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bloomington Peace Choir: Life After ‘A Magical Year’ To "help foster peace and joy in the community and the world at large" is "just a really great thing." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘My Name Is Asher Lev,’ In Bloomington The cast: "It’s very exciting. I was gifted with these three people!" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Columbus Architecture: First Financial Bank It’s a collaboration between the three designers who were also responsible for the Miller House And Gardens: architect Eero Saarinen, textile artist Alexander Girard, and landscape designer Dan Kiley. In fact, the allée of honey locust trees lining the sidewalks by the bank is a match to the backyard of the Miller house. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Place For Film – Manny Knowles On this week's episode, we meet Manny Knowles, Technical Director of the Cinema. We talk about the state of movie theater projection across the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two New Leaders For Shawnee 2011 I've acted, sung, played, directed and even designed sets, but this job has been doing a lot of things that I've never done before. producing director, Kevin Guthridge Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Young Composer Chosen To Score A Classic Coming-Of-Age Tale "David Copperfield's stepfather, Mr. Murdstone, is represented by low, grumbling bass, because he's... well, he's just mean." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BloomingtonKatmandu: From Cornfields To Ricefields The center's connection to a religion and government in exile makes it the ideal site for artworks exploring the concept that home is a portable feeling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Enduring Relevance Of The Pastoral Tradition “I knew as a child that something had happened in my family that severed something vital,” the poet explains. “It was that my parents’ parents, who were born on farms, had to leave them, in order to participate in a money-based economy. I’ve always felt it was my obligation to repair that in some way.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Review: Still The River Runs ‘A Modest Play’ There are dramatic, sad, ironic and downright funny moments of insight and sharing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer Festival Of The Arts: 113 Days Of Art The 113-days-long Summer Festival of the Arts includes events in music, theater, film and visual art, and is hosted by seven different venues in Bloomington. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Drawing On Experience: The Art Of A Certain Age After retiring from careers in arts-related fields, two exhibitors agree that making art now allows them to connect with something essential at their core. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Psychology And Law Bow To Theatre "Perhaps you're one of the people who have long lamented, "If only Weekend at Bernie's had been funnier.' Your wait is over." New York Times. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Local Songwriter’s Work In Hollywood Movie Peter made a couple of suggestions, minor ones but they really added to the flow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Miller House And Gardens: A Gem Of Modernism A jewel in the crown of Columbus, Indiana’s architecture scene is now open to the public. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roman Nights: Music By Scarlatti And Handel "The undisputed European star in instrumental composition then was Arcangelo Corelli, who ran with the same Roman circle of partrons as Scarlatti and Handel. " Richard Stone Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Year With Frog And Toad: Review I think that it was the adults who’ve suffered with children’s’ “are we there yet” syndrome who most enjoyed the episode of Toad’s disappointment with the slow progress of his garden Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Come Rain Or Come Shine: The Festival Of Flowers Paint Out The tradition of painting outdoors on this particular hilltop dates back to 1906, when a well-known American Impressionist purchased the abandoned farmstead. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indy Opera’s ‘La Traviata’: Young Singers, Old Roles Your life offers you new experiences, you change and the role changes a bit as well. It’s a very human thing. (Soprano Maureen O'Flynn" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Volta Glassblowing Studio And Gallery Opens To The Public The experience of watching the artisans at work and then developing a piece of one's own is as unique as the art that's sure to result from it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live From Indiana Avenue, 1957: A Young Jazz Super Group A tape of a group featuring the young Freddie Hubbard offers a rare chance to hear the world of live jazz in mid-20th century Indianapolis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cardinal Production Features An Old Frog And A New Bird "I get to play a whole menagerie: a chatty bird, a squirrel, a mole and a couple of other critters. For each I have to come up with a physical and a vocal language. It a fun challenge and really and Alexandra Morphet's costumes help a lot" Hana Slevin Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Restoring The Gleam To The IUAM’s ‘Shining Space’ The 110-foot high triangular, sky-lit atrium is the signature of the I.M. Pei structure, completed in 1982. Adding to the dramatic impact of the museum's glass ceiling is the dynamic shadow pattern its support grid casts across the atrium’s angular interior over the course of the day. But the ceiling has had maintenance issues for years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amplifier: David Vandervelde – Vivian Girls – The Donkeys David Vandervelde revels in old school rock, Vivian Girls prefers lo-fi surfer rock, and The Donkeys make infectious pop tunes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First Annual Creative Aging Festival Celebrates Seniors’ Art "Just having the courage to put yourself out there is a pretty amazing thing. So I personally am excited about that." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dancers Wake Up The Earth For Spring The Bloomington Quarry Morris Dancers are the only group of their kind in Indiana. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shape Shift: MacLeish Turns Experience Into Gesture It's not a translation of form that MacLeish seeks—rather, an expression of energy. Many of her pieces have verbs for names—wobble, shrug, somersault. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Commons: Building Into The Future In Columbus After four years of planning and construction, the Columbus, Indiana community eagerly awaits the opening of its new downtown mall and community center. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In The Limelight For April 28, 2011: National Arts News A look at what's in the headlines this week in national arts news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two Estranged Brothers and an Attic of Old Grievances The Jewish Theatre of Bloomington's production of Arthur Miller’s 1968 play The Price features a cast that includes actors from Indianapolis and San Francisco. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spamalot: Not Quite Your Typical Musical All the delightfully accomplished and captivating singing and dancing of a Broadway musical spiced with that off-kilter critical stance of those wacky Brits from “Monty Python" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In The Limelight For April 26, 2011: Local Arts News A look at what's in the headlines this week in local arts news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April Showers IU Faculty With Guggenheims, Pulitzer A neuroscientist, a literary scholar, and a poet at Indiana University have received Guggenheim Fellowships; the latter tapped as Pulitzer finalist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Perspective On Miller Time "The pain of both loving an older brother and being bitterly disappointed with him is a very complicated burden." Actor Richard Massery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Four Horns Front And Center Talking about Professor Nelsen in a few words is very hard. But one thing that I can say is that he helps students to be able to perform in any situation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘On Cold Mountain’ “I just casually looked at them and then as I read they simply did more than poems had ever done." Roy Whelden Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In The Limelight For April 21, 2011: National Arts News A look at what's in the limelight this week in national arts news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Representing Oneself In The Congo Giving Back to Africa is dedicated to making a long-term investment in educating young people in the central African country, formerly known as Zaire. Giving cameras to the children at PAID was a youth-empowerment initiative directly in line with the organization's mission. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In The Limelight For April 19, 2011: Local Arts News A look at what's going on this week in local arts news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Graffiti In The Round: Malcolm M. Smith’s Evolution In Clay The clay vessels and sculpture in Inner City Inspiration manifest Smith’s lifelong fascination with the interplay between shallow and deep space. These are ceramic funhouses, where letter forms derived from graffiti conventions explode into volume, and seemingly volumetric elements collapse into flat design, like cubist collages in the round. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two Young Artists: Two Paths William Angulo and Ethan Carpenter are both together as part of the team for "Anything Goes." They have different roles and the paths that brought them to the show are different as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pinocchio And Little Red It’s a chance to work with people my own age and older in a very supportive environment Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘Anything Goes’: Review IU director George Pinney went back to the 1962 version as the one that tells the story best. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAYO’s Musical Legends II I do believe that life is more colorful and exciting when music is part of its fabric. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Modern Art Is Alive And Well In Greencastle, Indiana Low Road Gallery is proving that small Midwestern towns are hungry for modern art. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In The Limelight For April 12, 2011: Local Arts News A look at what’s in the limelight for the week of April 11, 2011 in local arts news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vincent: Review Bernard Rands' music touches nicely on severe hymn sounds, affecting café songs, and even chant, but it always does it from its own perspective. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wandering Book Artists Come to Bloomington king handmade books for 35 years. Now they’re touring the country showing their books and single-sheet broadsides and giving classes in the book arts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amplifier: Davila 666 – Budos Band – WIUX Culture Shock Davila 666 gives punks a reason to shout in Spanish. Elder statesman Charles Bradley rocks with Budos Band. A spring tradition is back - WIUX's Culture Shock. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe Materoff’s ‘Cabaret’ I think everyone has a little bit of Sally Bowles in them, it’s that desire to sort of deny the outside world when it hurts you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Get Shot, Live Forever: Warhol’s Photographs Whether partying or walking down the street, Andy negotiated his entire existence through the lens. Having shot over 150,000 black-and-white negatives between 1976 and his death in 1987, Andy’s pictures serve as a visual diary of each day, whether the subject is a movie star, a hockey game, or a trashcan—all of which turn up here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In The Limelight For April 5, 2011: Local Arts News A look at what's in the headlines this week in local arts news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Tale Of Two Vincents The life of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh becomes a role of monumental proportions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friendship Makes For Beautiful Art At Restaurant Tallent The show of paintings and prints celebrates not only the spirit of collaboration across disciplines, but also the friendship between two couples - Tallent and her husband Dave and Fosberg and her girlfriend Sara Minard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unforgettable: Great American Songs Kate Hamilton will reprise her park performance of Dan’s arrangement of “I’m Gonna float My Boat Right Back to Terre Haute." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bach: A Strange Beauty In some pieces I have to think about organ sounds and effects and of course with the orchestra I’m always reminded of the expressive qualities of bowing Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In The Limelight March 31, 2011: National Arts News A look at what's in the limelight this week in national arts news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Upcycle, Hark Back: Bloomington Handmade Market The alternative crafts scene breathes new life into traditional materials and techniques, while renegotiating the contemporary commercial transaction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In The Limelight For March 29, 2011: Local Arts News A look at what's in the limelight this week in local arts news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Butler Basketball And The Big Dance Of Life As the Butler men's basketball team makes a return trip to the NCAA Final Four this weekend, a new book by a Butler creative-writing professor takes a look back at the profound excitement that surrounded last year's remarkable run. "It seemed to be about the stories we tell ourselves," says author Susan Neville, "and stories coming to life." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Review: Martin McDonagh’s ‘The Lonesome West’ Kudos to set designer Shane Cinal for cleverly incorporating the firebay’s original brickwork into the Connor’s beat-up living room. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Award Winner ‘Miles Away’ Takes A Cue From ‘The Hustler’ I think that life is sort of looking for your voice and I seem to have found mine in the writing Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Review: Language Of Angels Time slows, speeds and is cut and pasted in Naomi Iizuka's "Language of Angels." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In The Limelight For March 24, 2011: National Arts News A look at what's going on this week in national arts news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin McDonagh’s ‘The Lonesome West’ I’m kind of a shot of estrogen in the play. I think that the playwright just figured that he had to have a bit of a woman’s perspective with all the testosterone being flouted about. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shalom Center Annual Gala The Shalom Center advocates for the most vulnerable among us and promotes activities that empower persons to develop their assets to the fullest extent possible. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TEDxBloomington: The Wisdom Of Play A group of folks in Bloomington thinks is has some ideas worth spreading. They have organized an event in the spirit of TED that will bring together local, national, an international speakers for one day. TEDxBloomington: The Wisdom Of Play is the first such event in the state of Indiana. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New York, New York! Although it’s danced to Ernest Chausson’s Poem for Violin and Orchestra, it feels as if the music were written for the dance and not visa versa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tropical Brigadoon: A Photographic Mystery Tour Found photographs of an unidentified coastal community tweak the usual photojournalistic equation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Romeo And Juliet: A Shakepearian Music Drama We’re kind of working on a ‘summer stock’ model with individual meetings and then an intense couple of weeks prior to the opening. It’s tough, but it’s going to be good Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When Art Aspires Towards The Condition Of Everyday Life For T.C. Steele, lifestyle prevailed over stuff. “It has seemed to me,” wrote the Indiana Impressionist, “that the greatest of all arts is the art of living.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown I’ve done a little of everything, but I think that I really like directing the best. It’s a treat to work on a show and put all the pieces together Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Pellerite’s Love Affair With The Native American Flute Former classical flutist James Pellerite is on a mission to redefine the Native American flute and expand its repertoire. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Extraordinaires: The Sound Of Street Music The Extraordinaires will be back in Bloomington for a show at the Bishop on Saturday, March 5. If the weather is nice, consider taking a stroll downtown that afternoon. Perhaps you’ll catch the band performing another informal set on an unsuspecting street corner. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mosaic Diversity Film Festival "I would like to encourage residents to take the time to attend one or more of these events to celebrate diversity in Bloomington." Mayor Mark Kruzan Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amplifier: Hip-Hop Benefit – Papercuts – Wanda Jackson Rock legend Wanda Jackson and San Francisco-based Papercuts visit Bloomington venues, while area hip-hop artists perform a benefit for Rhino's All-Ages Club. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Story Telling: Something For Old And Young Alike I've wanted to play the Arutiunian Concerto since I first heard it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In The Limelight For February 22, 2011: Local Arts News A look at what's in the limelight for the week of February 21 in local arts news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fanning The Flames That Forge Art And Science WonderLab takes the coldest time of the year to fire up the imagination about the art-science connection. This year, the ignition concept went literal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kodo: Children Of The Drum Kodo's performances grow out of Japanese traditional arts, but its younger members are challenging the group and its limits. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monika Herzig’s Indiana Jazz For Kids Jazz educator Monika Herzig and other musicians and educators are bringing Indiana jazz to life for area school children. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TAG! You’re Part Of A Public Art Project Maintaining the students' continuous interest wasn’t the original mission. “My intention," Joe LaMantia recalled, "was to get them to participate” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Juliet And Romeo’s “Modern Takes” I’m convinced that it is important that my Romeo be a bit more dynamic and decisive than some I’ve seen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Angels In America In a cast of strong supporting figures, Nicole Bruce made the most of her scenes as a demented homeless woman and a quite coherent vision of Ethel Rosenberg. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Review: Suor Angelica And Gianni Schicchi C. David Higgins' costumes were a pleasure to see and the cleverly simple use of the same basic set for a convent drama and a bedroom farce was neatly handled. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Review: Kissing Frogs "Kissing Frogs" has a bit of kissing, but there's not an amphibian in sight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In The Limelight For The Week Of Feb. 7, 2011 A look at what's going on this week in local arts news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Review: Variety With Death, Comedy And Strings The key word to describe Theatre of the People’s latest offerings is 'variety.' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tragedy And Comedy, Puccini Style My assignment was to play for voice lessons and opera coachings. It was great training in learning the things singers need to be at their most successful. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Angels In America "It’s great to be back in Bloomington. I have actually come back to direct a couple of shows at Brown County, but this is my first time directing on campus." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Student Writes A ‘Gateway Drug’ Novel When her Mexican-American students told Ashley Hope Pérez they couldn't find a novel that told their story, she wrote it. The IU doctoral student speaks to Adam Schwartz about her soon to be published novel What Can't Wait. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hoosier Short-Play Showcase “We’re very pleased with the works. The eight plays are all very different. There are some dramatic moments, a few scary ones and quite a few funny ones. “ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website To See Life Steadily And See It Whole: Picturing The News The photographic representation of a happy middle-class family sits at opposite end of the social documentary tradition from the portrayal of urban blight or racial strife, but Cookman has bookended his recent scholarship by examining both extremes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Putting The ‘Art’ Into The Art Of Chocolate This is the first year The Art of Chocolate has included a juried art show and online auction. Thirty-four local artists have contributed their works to the event. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cleveland Orchestra Makes IU Auditorium Appearance "Professor Gingold had all those stories of his days as the concert master for Toscanini and later, with Cleveland, under George Szell. He made it seem a very nice sort of thing to do." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website And Yet The Object Persists: Contemporary Showcase At SoFA Just when you thought contemporary art was all about digital media and installation, three shows concede the persistence of the objet d'art. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “Bloomington” Flaunts Its Indiana Connections Cardoso explains that “Bloomington’s” connection to Indiana goes deeper than just the title. The movie was shot entirely in Carmel and Columbus in April of 2009 thanks to a suggestion from Indiana native and Indiana University alum producer Jason Shumway. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “The Dick Van Dyke Show” Opera “I always felt that Carl Reiner’s characters in 'The Dick Van Show' episodes were truly the twentieth century offspring, descendents, of commedia characters.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘Contemporary Masters’ Reinvisions Master Works "It requires a tremendous amount of core strength and an attention to space, to sculpting space. I think that [working on this dance] has added to these students' palate of abilities. There’s a ‘lyricness’ about the piece that has challenged them as well." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On The Sash-And-Gown Circuit With Miss Indiana “We don’t want a beauty queen,” one official insists. “That’s not what we’re about. We stay involved because we see young women’s lives changed and enhanced." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pride Film Festival: Which Movies Will Make The Cut In its 8th year, Bloomington's Pride Film Festival will bring 23 LGBTQ-themed movies to the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. But, who decides which movies make the cut? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 4th Annual Dance Extravaganza The first time we did this, we called it the “First Annual…,” not knowing if there would ever be another. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jubilant Sykes Sings Copland and Spirituals We recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra and it sounded so great that it was inspiring. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clay Times Three: A Tale Of Art, Craft, And Resourcefulness “Brown County was the great leveler," says Kathy McKimmie, whose new book unearths the story of and the connections among three Nashville potteries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fourth Wall Embraces Silliness The Fourth Wall are on the forefront of this exciting movement that is blurring the artistic boundaries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Favorite From Christmas Past "Actually, I've been offered the part a couple of times and wasn't able to take it. I'm glad that it came around again," admits Rick Peeples (Scrooge). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anne Flanagan’s ‘Artifice’ If you liked Agatha Christie's "Ten LIttle Indianas," but wished that it was funnier and nobody had to die, this is the play for you! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Extra Helping Of ‘Bah, Humbug!’ In ‘Scrooge Variations’ The Monroe County Civic Theatre introduces local candy maker and creator of “Uncle Bob’s Peanut Brittle,” Robert Shull, to Bloomington audiences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matteo Ricci: 16th-Century Priest Still Bridging Cultures ¡Sacabuché! to perform “Matteo Ricci: His Map and Music” in Beijing, China as part of a tour of Chinese concert venues and educational institutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Sweany: Twentieth-Century Renaissance Man Paul Sweany’s watercolors evince the vigilance of his inquiry into the world around him. “Paul was so intellectually curious,” lifelong friend Earl Snellenberger recalled. “If there was a subject he wanted to know about--say astronomy--he would just throw himself into that wholeheartedly.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sex/Death: Ladies Night Sex/Death: Ladies Night puts the ladies in charge with the production acted and directed entirely by women. Diane Kondrat directs a talented female cast will be tackling the roles of both sexes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel Uncle Peck was upright and loving in so much of his character, sobered up by virtue of his desire for Li’l Bit, but always the victim of the passion that he feels for the young gir Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dreams Come True In Kokomo Civic Theatre’s ‘White Christmas’ People enjoyed the tapping, and they were a little surprised at how much exercise it was. Some found that they were pretty sore after the first few classes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Krista Detor’s Holiday Celebration Singer-songwriter Krista Detor talks about her homegrown tribute to the season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Focus: The 20-Somethings at Paper Crane Gallery What might look like a lot of tomfoolery has proven to be a creative crucible and a professional incubator for each year’s crop of emerging artists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How I Learned To Drive by Paula Vogel As a professional I won't have a chance to play a forty year old for another twenty years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Four Years Dancing With The Nutcracker Friday night, I'm the energetic Sugar Plum Fairy. Saturday evening, I'm the elegant Snow Queen. For the matinees...look for me among the Chinese Dancers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bloomington Sparkles: The Canopy of Lights By the time the Oscar-winning motion picture Breaking Away was shot in Bloomington in 1979, downtown looked somewhat weary. At a time when historic preservation was still in its nascent stage, even the 1907 courthouse—the square’s crown jewel-- stared down the wrecking ball. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hoosier Writers Gone Wild Artworks’ Adam Schwartz speaks with Bill Peschel, author of Writers Gone Wild, a collection of anecdotes of great writers at their worst behavior. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reva Shiner Award Winner ‘Artifice’ Opens At BPP With Anne Flanagan as the award winning playwright and step daughter Amelia Vanderbilt the assistant stage manager, the BPP production of Artifice is a family affair. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Al Cobine And The Singing Hoosiers Saxophonist and composer Al Cobine donned many hats in his working career as a musician, including a close relationship with IU's Singing Hoosiers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indiana New Play Festival (INPlay) Since we work together so much on this project, we try to avoid taking it home. Dinner conversation has to be on other topics Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website By The Glow Of A Yak-Butter Lamp: Arts Of Mongolia And Tibet The show links two distinct places through the spirituality that permeates daily life in both lands. On view are the spoon-like utensils with which women in Mongolia throw aspersions of milk to the four directions every morning. The thangkas on display often show smoke damage from having been hung in tents lit with yak-butter lamps. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Organist Cameron Carpenter Has Some Suggestions For The King Cameron Carpenter is not a religious guy, but he plays the instrument that most people would associate with the church. "I always thought it completely ridiculous," he says, "that an instrument as lascivious and sensual and violent and banal as the organ would be stereotyped as having anything to do with church." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Easy Decisions in ‘Twelve Angry Men’ Elisabeth Addleman, the director for the Edgewood High School’s Masqued Crafter’s production has no such scruples. Although all the actors are wearing jackets and ties, there’s a mix of males and females. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Noel Coward’s ‘Hay Fever’ An awkward parallel and a tired quote led to two ‘whiffs.’ And it was only a conservative final swing that took the ball a bit out of the infield. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Back In The Studio With Sylvia McNair Soprano Sylvia McNair returned to the WFIU on-air studio for a candid conversation about her time as an announcer and her career as a musician. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Revenge Comes To Those Who Wait In ‘Die Fledermaus’ " Actually, it’s been kind of fun learning a bit about how to be a guy!" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don’t Let Public Radio Become An Archelogical Artifact! Get out of the stone age and support WFIU during our annual Fund Drive! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WFIU Time Capsule: 1959 What were the top news stories of 1959, how about movies and notable deaths? Listen here as WFIU goes back in time to 1959... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘The Forbidden Show’ Nell Weatherwax does her own special brand of on-the-edge storytelling in the first act of The Forbidden Show. Act two? “Assholes and Aureoles.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Di Wu Plays Tchaikovsky Tchiakovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 , "I think it is a very uplifting work with an opening few chords that really will stick in people’s minds. And there’s also a lovely sense of playfulness as well that I think people will enjoy." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ghost Storytelling Series: “Voodoo” Told By Stephanie Holman "Mr. and Mrs. Decker had had marital spats for a number of months, and a little cooling off time was needed..." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ghost Storytelling: “Monster In The Forest” By Mary Frasier "Once long ago, human beings wandered through the great forest and gathered food. Until one day – a monster came and began to prey upon the human beings..." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ghost Storytelling Series: “An Easy Gig,” Told By Josh Wolf "Gabe thought that the baby was pretty good. In fact, as babysitting gigs went, this was a really easy one..." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Queen Of Carnegie Hall Returns In ‘Souvenir’ Florence Foster Jenkins was a New York socialite with independent financial means and an equally independent belief in her vocal talent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Professor Todd: Pop’s Maverick Rocks Campus Gig Continually drawing from that seemingly bottomless well of pop perfection that produced such hits as “Hello It’s Me”, “I Saw the Light” and “Can We Still Be Friends” was clearly not what Rundgren wanted to do. “By the time I got to Something/Anything,” Rundgren has explained, “I was getting formulaic. ‘I Saw the Light’ I wrote into 15 minutes.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Ebbinghouse: Bringing Art Down To Earth Like processed foods in their eye-catching packages, Ebbinghouse’s commentary about our culture of consumption is delivered in an appealing way. It’s easy to connect with his art, since we have an quotidian relationship with the materials he uses—candy wrappers, egg cartons, pull-tabs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Forbidden Show: Trashy Fun For Smart People With the risqué subject matter, this project seemed to be the best fit for an on-stage collaboration. “I’ve always felt that I needed to not be too shocking, too graphic, too out there, or intense, especially about sex,” says Weatherwax. “And oh, I so don’t feel that now! I feel that in conjunction with this show, I cannot be too outrageous.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indiana University Opera Theater’s ‘Little Women’ Adamo skillfully winds the strands of the family life together often with contrasting emotions and paths forming a musical and verbal counterpoint. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Traditions Are Made To Be Broken In ‘Fiddler On The Roof’ "My character is Hodel, one of the wild daughters. I shock the family and the whole town when I agree to dance with a man in public." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘Project M – Madhouse And Mayhem’ Just what an actor is, and what a script represents, become quite unsettling in the play. A thoughtful audience member can come away with a lot to think about. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘Little Women’: Mark Adamo’s Classic American Opera Adamo has chosen to write in two styles. One is a lush romantic style for the arias. It’s a bit like Copland or Barber or Floyd, but really has Adamo’s special mark. The second is the music of the background the movement of the story and it’s actually atonal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘Legally Blonde’ The Musical One dance highlight is a hilarious River Dance parody with such a variety of costumes on the dance line that it drew immediate and prolonged laughter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sounds Of Rumi David Haberman is a faculty member in IU’s Department of Religious Studies although he has actually taught about the verses of Rumi, his connection with the concert is musical. “I heard my son play guitar in one of Sulai’s concerts and that hooked me." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What’s Old Is New: Reinvention In Martinsville The show was conceived as an explicitly didactic effort, one with a clear message. But is the conscience the best watering hole for art? “I had several artists say, ‘I really wanted to do something, but I couldn’t think of what to do,’” Ten Eyck Hunt admitted. “They were stumped. ‘What materials am I going to use…what is my inspiration?’" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bloomington’s Fiendish Festival of Fright Picking a story that really speaks to you is first and foremost for being a successful storyteller. Wolf adds that ghost stories are the hardest of all stories to find. “If it’s not really scary, it’s going to be funny! But, how far can you push it?" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making Sense Of Life In ‘The Rabbit Hole’ There’s an attractive, though a bit fragile resilience to Howie's character. I’d have to say that the audience will probably sympathize with his effort, but they’re going to also get a pretty good laugh out of some of his efforts in the romantic department. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opera from a Sistah’s Point of View I was auditioning to perform “I’m a Little Tea Pot.” The singing and the words were there, but I messed up the hand motions. Although, I didn’t get the part, I resolved right then that I was always going to try my best and I have. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website African Reinventions: Reused Materials In Popular Culture African Reinventions: Reused Materials in Popular Culture presents strictly defined art objects—such as jewelry, sculpture and painting—fashioned from discarded materials, while demonstrating how artistry, in combination with resourcefulness, can bring new life to utilitarian objects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bringing The Garden Into The Gallery 'Tending a Difficult Hope' is the new edible exhibit at the School of Fine Arts SoFA gallery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Freedom and Marriage in ‘The House of Bernarda Alba’ Although the play’s all female cast would seem to make it an ideal fit for Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, it has some special opportunities and challenges. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adam Langer’s New Book: Conning The NYC Publishing World WFIU’s Adam Schwartz speaks with Bloomington author Adam Langer about his fourth novel, The Thieves of Manhattan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rent by Jonathan Larson The fervent singing is so on pitch that it’s eerie and every consonant and vowel in the libretto is right there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AwareFest: A Green World We’ve pulled together some of the best playwrights in the country along with talented local playwrights to show that art can have a powerful impact on society Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Choreographer’s Evening I’m very pleased that the music we've picked covers a broad spectrum of David Baker’s work and he’s very much involved. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bach Cantata Project Of the Bach Cantata Project, Daniel Melamed says, "One of the exciting things is that this is a chance to hear a piece maybe you don’t know.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rocking The Canvas: The Artwork Of Joel Washington Joel Washington is a Bloomington-based artist whose colorful style has earned him recognition both home and abroad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Classics: “That’s SO Last Century!” Actually, although we did like the sound of “That’s SO Last Century,” and the music does come from what we now call the 1900s, American music doesn’t pigeon hole itself by date. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art Impacts Society At AwareFest The oil spill was just such a great target and so well suited to the themes of the AwareFest project. I just couldn’t resist! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Il Barbiere Di Siviglia Dramatic styles ranged all the way from stand up and sing to a very complicated tour de farce for all involved to close the first act. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nature And Nurture: Picturing The Last Taboo Although pornography has become pervasive in mainstream media, images of nudity in the context of pregnancy, birth and lactation are still considered taboo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fearless Performance Fearlessness is not necessarily the lack of fear. It’s the choice that there are things more important than fear. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Symphony And The Serpent Yeo has become a bit of an evangelist for the serpent. He’s even written a journal article about the novelist Thomas Hardy’s fascination with the instrument. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Opera Opens With Rossini’s ‘Barber of Seville’ As costume designer I continue the concern for contrast as I manipulate color, texture and style to fit and even describe characters Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Slatkin And McTee Team Up To Present “Double Play” McTee says winning competitions is one way for composer’s to get their foot in the door, and it was certainly helpful in getting "Double Play" performed, "but even more important than competitions is to connect to a performer," she says. Slatkin agrees, saying music survives by its proponents: the people who believe in it and enjoy playing it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Reform To Renaissance At Fairview Elementary In past years, Fairview missed some Adequate Yearly Progress targets. Elementary students who lived in the Fairview district had the option of attending another school. Enrollment numbers went down, and there was talk of closing the school. But the school board chose instead to invest in the only elementary school in downtown Bloomington. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sax In The City I was not just writing a romantic piece, I was writing a Russian romantic piece. I didn’t know if today’s saxophonists would embrace it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Direction For An Old Building: The John Waldron Arts Center Artworks profiled the ins and outs of the Waldron Arts Center last year, and a few changes have taken place since then. You may have already heard the rumors... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When Fear Stops the Music Artworks' Adam Schwartz speaks with a violinist/psychologist who works with musicians afflicted with performance anxiety, and with two of her clients. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Columbus Symphony Orchestra The Columbus Symphony is a volunteer community orchestra. Everyone who’s there is there because they want to be. It’s a very friendly group and the best word that I can use to describe the atmosphere is ‘camaraderie Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Grapes Of Wrath Sometimes listeners say that they wish I would simply say what I think about a play. They don't want to have to read between the lines. Well, the answer is this... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Business Of Music: Perspectives On The Struggling Economy Alice Curry, Mary Moran, and Krista Weiss discuss how hard economic times have affected their budgets, their music making, and their plans for the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Night Of 1000 Words We’re drawing on performances from the past by our roster of artists and by community leaders as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Grapes of Wrath In a single scene we may have part of the cast in the truck, part of the cast playing and even part of the cast taking a swim. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘The Wizard Of Wall Street’ By Jonathan Goldberg " I have to say that working with a script in progress is pretty new for me." actor Sean McNall who plays Jay Gould Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Land, The Author: The Rachel Peden Revival A Bloomington farm wife's mid-20th century books are coming back into print and popularity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Damage Control: Restoring Thomas Hart Benton’s Indiana Murals Originally commissioned for the Indiana Hall at the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1933, Thomas Hart Benton's murals depicted the history of Indiana from mound builders to steel workers over the course of two hundred linear feet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indiana Memorial Union: An Unlikely Art Gallery If you think you’ve seen all the art galleries in Bloomington, you might be missing one: The Indiana Memorial Union. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Deathly Reputation: Violist Michael Strauss Strauss laments that many notable composers throughout music history, such as Bartok and Shostakovich, wrote viola pieces immediately before they died. "In fact, Prokofiev was commissioned to write a viola concerto by Sergei Koussevitzky and William Primrose. Before he could put pen to paper, he passed away. Just the thought of it!" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Beethoven Had ‘Big Guns Aimed At The Future’ I think Beethoven was distilling everything that he was, everything that he had within himself, as a human being and as an artist, and giving them to us, to posterity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The View From The Back Of The Orchestra: Timpanist John Tafoya Annie Corrigan talks to timpanist John Tafoya for the third and final installment in our Festival Orchestra Principals series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Waldron Welcomes New Artistic Director I’m hoping to get back to being directly involved with theatre when I meet with Ivy Tech's drama club to see about forming a performing group that might perform in the Center.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry The Freitag-Levy’s were very assimilated German Jews with scarcely a remnant of culture. Joe is ‘the other kind,’ a more recent immigrant from Russia or Eastern Europe. To them, he’s too Jewish. To him they don’t seem Jewish at all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Soul Of The Orchestra: Bassoonist Kathleen McLean “It seems like there is a Russian tradition to use a lot of bassoon in their works,” Kathleen McLean comments. “Perhaps it’s the gloomy sound that the bassoon can produce. People have always said the bassoon to them sounds like the human soul.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Embroiderers of Ninhue: Stitching Community in Chile In the midst of the volatility rocking her native Chile in the early 1970s, Carmen Benavente sought to create community, with a few simple stitches. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jefferson Street Parade Band Makes a Joyful Noise The members of Jefferson Street Parade Band are bringing some fanfare flair to Bloomington. With drums and horns and crowds following them like the Pied Piper, they have pulled music out of the dark, stuffy venues and into the light of day – because this band is a marching band. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brown County Playhouse Presents “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” It is Jewish society, but the focus is on fitting in, on being practically indistinguishable from Christian neighbors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Camp SOUL Provides A History Of African-American Music Traditions Camp SOUL educates teens about the evolution of African-American musical styles, from traditional gospel, to 1960s jazz, to modern soul and hip-hop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dee Stewart: Sports, Pinwheels, and Bass Trombone Dee Stewart says the trombone section prides itself in the section as a whole. The principal trombonist is the leader while the bass trombonist provides the low foundation for the section and really the entire orchestra. He calls the second trombone “the meat of the sandwich." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shawnee Theatre Ends Season With ‘The Man Who Came To Dinner’ Sheridan Whitesides, theater critic, columnist and radio personality, is a perfect role for Josh Carroll: acerbic, curmudgeonly, and magnetic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure’ Playwright Stephen Dietz has full grasp of the Holmes canon and he adds little gems from other stories as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Raging Grannies: Not Your Grandmother’s Protest Songs It’s been said that “well-behaved women rarely make history.” In Bloomington, a group of female singers “of a certain age” is putting that adage to the test. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ensemble Caprice, Vivaldi And The Baroque Gypsies Actually preparing the pieces for performance is quite an adventure. We try to recreate the spirit of what we think must have been. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Review: Crossroads Repertory Theater’s Frankenstein Berchild’s stage is bare, but the production is rich. Even in its many intimate scenes, Frankenstein never feels like a small play. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arvo Pärt: Portrait There are the tubular bells in the Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten. Part has even called his style ‘tintinnabulum.’ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Many Musical Styles of The Mirari Brass Quintet “We had a quote, when we played our concert at Cornell,” said Jessie Thoman, the group’s horn player. “It was like someone put my iPod on shuffle and played all my favorite songs.” Alex Noppe, one of the two trumpet players commented, "But to be honest, I don’t know if we’ve ever thought of ourselves as a classical group." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Larry Shue’s ‘The Nerd’ Self-centered and socially unaware, the nerd is a walking, talking irritant. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music From The Time of Vlad Dracula When we look at a scrap of music or even a written out piece that was played in Vlad’s time, it’s almost just a set of hints as to how it sounded. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Summer Music Festival: The Afiara String Quartet I think that cellists, like bass players are kind of the gregarious types among string players. And I don’t deny that. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website !Zarzuela Y Mas!: An Evening Of Spanish Baroque Opera The early music of Spain and Latin America was an area that was largely unrepresented in performances and recordings -- before El Mundo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shawnee Theatre: The Curse Of The Doom Mine "I’ll be encouraging the audience to boo the villain, cheer the hero and sympathize with the plight of the heroine." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Piffaro: A Renaissance Town Band As you might guess from our name, ‘Piffaro,’ it began with the wind bands of Italy. But since then we’ve looked at the traditions and ensembles of France, of Germany and of Spain as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crossroads Repertory Theatre’s Frankenstein: A Sort of Gadget "Frankenstein is the most complicated show that we’re doing this season, so it is getting a lot of attention. But at the same time, it is a four show season so our efforts do need to be pretty carefully balanced." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Guy With A Pearl Earring The work titled "Girl With A Pearl Earring" is showing at the Kinsey Institute's 5th annual Jurried Art Show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Summer Music Festival: Sarah Kapustin And The Rubens Quartet There are many young and established quartets playing today; Sarah Kapustin has given some thought to how the Rubens Quartet can carve out its own niche. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charles M. Schulz In His Own Words An interview with the editor of a new collection of writings by Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz brings together his articles, speeches, and essays. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias At The Shawnee Theatre Robert Harling’s play Steel Magnolias at the Shawnee Theatre in Bloomfield is set in Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘Pixies, Kings And Magical Things’ At The Crossroads Theatre You do have to appeal to the kids and that comes first. But, you also have to have something for the adults. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Edmund White’s “Terre Haute” At Crossroads Repertory Theatre The two characters are modeled on Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City Bomber and the writer and critic Gore Vidal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Home For Buddhist Art In Indiana While it’s a frequent pit stop for His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Bloomington is also home to a fair share of Buddhist art. Megan Meyer spent some time with the director of the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center to learn more about the stories Buddhist art tells. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reclaiming Summer: Thursdays At Boxcar Events Series “We like to think of ourselves as a bookstore but with a mission," said Steven Stothard, one of the events coordinators at Boxcar. He referred to Boxcar Books as Bloomington’s only non-profit, volunteer-powered, collectively-run bookstore and community space. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer Quest: A Safari In One’s Own Backyard Ahhh… summer! A time when life in a college town slows down a little, and year-round residents might be open to something different. Add to that equation a group of arts organizations looking to gain traction with locals and summer visitors and voilà! It’s the Alliance of Bloomington Museums’ Summer Quest, now in its second year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website If You Give A Mouse A Cookie Sarah Sandberg’s set for If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is colorful and imaginative. Her crazily-sized props include a glass of milk the size of a bucket with a straw that’s about six feet long, and a set a crayons the size of fence posts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Daniels’ “Escanaba In Da Moonlight” At Shawnee Theatre I play a character who’s been abducted by aliens and returned to earth with a curious perspective and a very peculiar way of talking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All IU’s A Stage At Midsummer Theatre Program In early June, 16 teens from around the country came together for Indiana University’s Midsummer Theatre Program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website True Tales From The Bloomington Storytelling Project Laura Grover: “I think storytelling reaches across all walks of life because everyone has stories. There’s nothing specific that you need to go to school for or be trained in to have a life worth telling stories about.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website If You Give a Mouse a Cookie I was actually quite happy when we decided to do this show, because it offers a lot of opportunities for physical acting Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Ground to Skyline: Celebrating Limestone’s Storied Legacy During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a strong, durable, fine-grained stone made its way from the quarries of south central Indiana to the nation’s most significant landmarks. A consortium of interests in Monroe and Lawrence Counties is dedicated to celebrating Indiana’s limestone heritage, while also raising its profile. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Ground to Skyline: Celebrating Limestone’s Storied Legacy During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a strong, durable, fine-grained stone made its way from the quarries of south central Indiana to the nation’s most significant landmarks. A consortium of interests in Monroe and Lawrence Counties is dedicated to celebrating Indiana’s limestone heritage, while also raising its profile. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Mathew Martin’s spelling looked a bit like a graceful soft-shoe. He traced the letters of each word with his foot. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ted Swindley’s “Honky Tonk Angels” I do enjoy my features, but a real part of the fun in this show for me and for the audience is when the three of us get to sing together Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Pearce: Inspired By Indiana’s Changing Seasons Indiana ambient musician Jeff Pearce plays the Chapman Stick to evoke Indiana’s four distinct seasons. His music is often heard on WFIU's Hearts of Space. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Uslan: The Value of Comic Books Best known for producing the Batman movies, you can see 30,000 items from Michael Uslan's comic book collection on display at IU's Lilly Library. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Museum of Broken Relationships Showcases Souvenirs Of Heartbreak Croatian artist Drazen Grubisic started the Museum of Broken Relationships as his personal relationship with fellow artist Olinka Vistica was ending. Unsure about how to dispose of a few sentimental items the couple had acquired, they decided “it would be nice to have a museum to store all these objects that have emotional pressure on us.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shawnee 2010: The 51st Season "My role was as a scene stealing pig in a version of Cinderella. I think that parts of that pig’s role are still part of me on stage." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hollywood Shrink Dennis Palumbo On The Inner Lives Of Artists Dennis Palumbo helps Hollywood creative types get sane. He's seen the creative process from both sides of the couch--as a former TV and screenwriter, and now as a licensed psychotherapist is private practice. His clients are mostly Hollywood above-the-line talent struggling with creative issues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BloomingPlays 2010 At The Bloomington Playwrights Project BloomingPlays 2010 is the result of both a winnowing and a nurturing process, from selection through staged readings, revisions, revisions and more revisions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Honing A Heritage With The African American Arts Institute The African American Arts Institute, located just off the Arts Quad on the IU campus, has been bringing music and dance to Bloomington for over 30 years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Laurie R. King: A 20th Century Feminist Marries Sherlock Holmes What if Sherlock Holmes married a woman of equal wit and intelligence, and they solved crimes as a team? That’s the premise of Laurie R. King’s popular series of suspense novels featuring Holmes and Mary Russell. King has just had published the tenth installment in her Mary Russell series, The God of the Hive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Birth Of Venus: A Long Labor Of Love Since 1961, Robert Laurent’s Birth of Venus fountain has been the centerpiece of Showalter Plaza, the artistic core of Indiana University’s Bloomington campus. It’s a celebratory, modernist take on a classical subject that brings to mind Paul Manship’s Prometheus at New York’s Rockefeller Center skating rink. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings Of Drag: The Gender Studs Challenge And Entertain Audiences Drag kings put in a lot of time and energy into their performances. From the clothing to the body language and facial expressions, Katie Schweighofer explained, "it all has to have meaning behind it – in the context of the song, in the context of the club – what does that complete package signify and what is that suggesting to our audience.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2010 BloomingPlays Festival “Playwriting is my passion. I actually feel as if my play is my baby. At the same time, dealing with a character who’s kind of a terrible person is a struggle." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Great Jordini, IU’s First Magic Grad “Now, before we talk any further,” Goldklang asked, “would you please change the card that you have in your mind. That way, there will be absolutely no way that I could know what you’ve picked.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Local Musicians Present “Next Best Thing” Lady Gaga Tribute Show Not everyone is a fan of glossy pop music. But Lady Gaga is special – why else would a group of Bloomington punk musicians choose to put on a Gaga tribute show? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Little Shop Of Horrors Cardinal's Artistic Director Randy White has said that directing "Little Shop" is the culmination of a twenty-year dream, and a dream of a production it is. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “The Women” By Clare Booth Luce "As Olga the manicurist, I’m kind of the character who sets the whole drama moving. In addition, I’m a nanny, an upper class lady, a model and even a cigarette girl. Fortunately, I get to take on the parts just one at a time!" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Puppets Play Adult Roles In “Avenue Q” The most 'adult' thing about Avenue Q is the fact that its characters, even in success, never ride off into the glow of sunset. As they sing in the final song, any given moment is “Only For Now” – and that’s a real adult evaluation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bloomington Symphony Concert To Feature Youth Concerto Winner "People hearing this work have very strong feelings. Some will love it, some may actually hate it. There doesn’t seem to be much middle ground." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evelyn Glennie: Listening To The Future Of Classical Music Evelyn Glennie: Our whole problem has been about categorization. We’re determined to use “classical” even for today’s composers. Of course, it’s too early to categorize the music that’s written today. It hasn’t had a chance to breath yet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Reference City to No-Man’s-Land: IU’s MFA Printmakers In Jeremy Sweet’s carnivalesque work, Mayan masks brush shoulders with King Kong and Annie Oakley. Sweet’s freewheeling vernacular stands in stark contrast to the cryptic language spoken in William McMahan's work. McMahan’s “Figure Studies” inhabit the mysterious interstices between flora and fauna, figure and ground. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website They’re Keeping Alive the Lost Art of Letter Writing With e-mail and text messaging, is paper correspondence obsolete? A quiet underground of letter writers don't think so. They claim that those of us who have been seduced by the speed and convenience of instantaneous communication are missing out on one of life’s pleasures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gala Concerts To Dedicate New IU Seward Organ The organ can both offer the music of Bach and bring out the big broad sounds of the French romantics like Widor or Messiaen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Columbus Indiana Philharmonic: Music Of The Masters "An April concert wouldn’t be complete without a nod to the season. We’re making a full bow." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In “Leipzig,” Alzheimer’s Disease Reveals A Hidden Heritage Although it is a choreographed reading, the books seldom got in the way and in some scenes were even neatly used as props. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen Sondheim’s ‘A Little Night Music’ Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music was by a book by Hugh Wheeler, which in turn was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s film Smiles of a Summer Night. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project P: The Property Line Punch Out A classic antiwar play written in 1920 meets a contemporary piece about the complexity of property rights. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Drawing On Tradition, In Search Of Oneself Although their work looks nothing alike, photographer June Yong Lee and painter Nishiki Tayui are both expatriates from the Far East, who have lived in the US for about a decade. Both have spent their time in Bloomington making art that grapples with cultural and ethnic identity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leipzig by Wendy Graf What this play can do is to allow the audience a sense of catharsis and a faith that honesty indeed is a very liberating and positive experience Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘West Side Story’ Marks A Department’s Improvement Over The Years West Side Story offers a curious, teenagers' world, with only the occasional adult. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Composers and Dancers Collaborate in ‘Hammer and Nail’ No one that I interviewed knews where the name "Hammer and Nail" came from, but this year it's more than four times bigger than when it started out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Art Museum Hosts Middle Eastern Poetry Series The IU and Bloomington communities have a rare opportunity this month to hear Middle Eastern poetry the way they were meant to be heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Theater of the People’s “Project P: The Property Line Punch Out” “'Project P: The Property-Line Punch Out’ was actually inspired by an outdoor production that we saw of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Aria da Capo," David says. "We have a weakness for 'two-fers,' and paired it with A Sand Castle in the Sky, a play that I began in a class at Indiana University.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meet A Girl Named Maria At The IU Opera Theater The dramatic challenge of Maria is the incredible emotional change and growth from the young innocent at the beginning to the tragic survivor at the end. In addition, it pretty ‘rangy!’ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Review: Bloomington Playwrights Project 80s Shorts 80s Shorts at the Bloomington Playwrights Project is a set of five ten-minute-plays evoking the 80s with a stage set of brightly colored Rubik’s cubes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Classical Music Highlights for April Welcoming Spring with a bouquet of fine recordings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jump, Spin, And Twirl With The Windfall Dancers The Windfall Dancers provides a space for young and old alike to get active. Their studio includes two sprung dance floors, which is unique to Bloomington. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Experience the ’80s with the Bloomington Playwrights Project It turned out to be lots more interesting than I expected. And then we got six really neat plays, it got to be even more fun.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg Jaysen Wright was a charmer as the all star player who comes out. He gracefully took on the role of a character so blessed that he innocently doesn’t believe that normal rules apply to him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Epitome, The Camerata Orchestra Series Tchaikovsky has written a gorgeous piece that really shows off the cello, but it also has some lovely moments for the orchestra with the transitions between the variations and even a couple of duets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boxcar Books Fundraiser Doubles As “Rock N Roll” Prom Boxcar Books and the Pages to Prisoners Project present the 6th Rock N Roll Prom benefit, featuring cover bands, a photo booth, and rather lenient dress code. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Private Eyes: Stolen Glances of Homemade Pornography The Kinsey Institute’s art collection contains around 100,000 objects, including forays into erotica by such heavy-hitters as Picasso and Chagall. But Private Eyes: Amateur Works from the Kinsey Collection culls mostly anonymous work, whose makers had little to no artistic training or professional experience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Ballet Theater presents ‘An American Evening’ It’s great to see the light come on in a kid’s eyes when they get it. When the training and the practice that they done come together. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Columbus, IN Philharmonic Brings Words of “Rogue Monks” To Life I think that underlying the whole piece is a sense from Orff of what he thought was crucial and what he thought was trivia Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zero Hour Tango Fest What I’m trying to do this time is to put it all together: music, dance, poetry, visual elements, even a bit of music and drink. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘Take Me Out’ by Richard Greenberg I guess I’m moving from the Shakespearean classics of drama to play set in America’s classic Game. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Guitar Festival and Competition Finds Home in Bloomington "We'll have several concerts on that weekend. It's an opportunity for the competitors to get to know Bloomington and the School of Music." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Social worker teaches values with hammer and chisel As Binford Elementary’s social worker, Terence Lankford spends his days helping students cope with problems like bullying, poor academic performance, and parental abuse. But each weekday for a half-hour, he has a different way of working with kids. He teaches them the ancient art of carving words and pictures into stone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Still Wearing Sneakers: The Canadian Brass Celebrate Forty Years Few chamber groups can boast the accomplishments of the Canadian Brass. And even after forty years, the group isn't showing any signs of stopping now. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MAYO and the Art of Practice The Musical Arts Youth Orchestra, or MAYO, is an inter-school orchestra where kids of all ages come together to play a wide range of musical styles. For many of its members, MAYO is their first experience playing in a full orchestra. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Food Rules: A Conversation With Author Michael Pollan Author Michael Pollan knows a thing or two about food. He hopes his new book "Food Rules" will to give you some rules of thumb when shopping for groceries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU President McRobbie Rocks Public Radio Indiana University president Michael McRobbie guest hosted the WFIU radio program “Just You and Me with Joe Bourne” March 5, from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cinderella by Rodgers and Hammerstein Bedford North Lawrence High School Choral Director Brian Samarzea's latest production is Cinderella - with his daughter as the lady with the glass slipper. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fleet Irish Feet Grace the Auditorium Stage in “Lord of the Dance” Lord of the Dance featuring 2009 World Irish Dance champions Scott Doherty and Michael McHugh comes to the IU Auditorium for a single performance March 7. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beauty and the Beast Comes To The IU Auditorium Beauty and the Beast opened Tuesday night, with seven additional songs and real actors playing all those cartoon characters from the film. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Improbable Kinship: Liou, Gealt, and Nakagawa In the gallery where the triennial faculty show is on view at the Indiana University Art Museum, there’s a grouping that might not immediately seem interrelated. 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