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Masqued Crafters’ Performance Benefits Edgewood Graduate Edgewood High School’s drama group, the Masqued Crafters presents S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders in a production to benefit Josh Owens, an EHS 2008 graduate who is undergoing cancer treatment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website William Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’ In this production the cross casting lets us see familiar characters in a new light. We have the opportunity to hear famous speeches in a different key. And we can examine some of the conflicts through the lens of estrogen instead of testosterone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Before and After: Photographs of Rural America in the Depression News about the way the economic downturn is affecting our fellow citizens can seem abstract if it’s not happening in our own backyard. In the 1930s, policy makers facing the same challenge found a way to tackle it—through photography. Depression-era photographs in the IU Art Museum's collection were created intentionally to unsettle the viewer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’ “The Magic Flute,” Die Zauberflote is a wonderfully colorful evening of cleverness, wit and whimsy that doesn’t sacrifice a note of the music, the weighty messages that the Masonic Mozart include, or the humanity of his characters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clarinetist James Campbell Gets ‘Eclectic’ With Camerata Orchestra It’s simply the best piece that we have and both students and professionals fight to have the opportunity to play it Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As You Like It by William Shakespeare As You like It, like many of the comedies ends with weddings and for this one we have two conventional couples, one same-sex male couple and one same-sex female couple getting married. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As You Like It by William Shakespeare As You like It, like many of the comedies ends with weddings and for this one we have two conventional couples, one same-sex male couple and one same-sex female couple getting married. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Wild New Production of Mozart’s ‘Magic Flute’ With the set, and it’s a very active unit set, we try to have magical, lyrical and even comic moments to go with the drama. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lynd Martens’ ‘Naked in the Kitchen’ If this were a room in TV’s House Hunters, you’d probably hear the couple and the realtor agreeing that this has to be totally redone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Celtic Woman Bring Their ‘Isle of Hope’ to IU Auditorium I think from being in musicals and learning not just to sing a song, but to tell a story—is something that I bring to the shows. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A ‘Small Box’ At The Buskirk-Chumley To me Herman's music sounds like Puccini with spare lean vocal lines that contrast with lush orchestral writing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Local Clay Potters’ Showcase Their Talents In some places, it seems you find a studio around every corner. But many of those artists find themselves isolated, hard at work inside their studios. A few years ago a handful of ceramics artists decided to do something about that and formed the Local Clay Potter’s Guild. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Secret Stars of Morton C. Bradley As the beneficiaries of abstract artist Morton C. Bradley's entire body of work, arts administrators at Indiana University face the task of reconstructing Bradley’s position in the scope of 20th-century art and ideas. "He was a true original," reflected IU Art Museum director Heidi Gealt, "in the sense that he just followed his own path." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘Twelve’ by Sulaiman Zai Part of our ensemble is a group of young violinists. In the past when I’ve written for them, I’ve made their music kind of rhythmic and lively. But, one of the older players suggested that I give them something with a little more meat, more opportunity to draw sound from their instruments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘Boom’ by Peter Sinn Nactrieb The audience is left to wonder about who those characters who seemed so real really are and then what we are as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sarasate: Virtuoso Violin Works Playwright and music critic George Bernard Shaw wrote of Pablo de Sarasate that he “left criticism miles behind him,” and by all contemporary accounts the Spanish violin virtuoso was unique. In this week’s featured recording violinists Gil Shaham and Adele Anthony pay homage to the great Sarasate with a collection of his most outstanding works. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘The Clean House’ by Sarah Ruhdl In the story there are a couple of hard working married doctors played by Molly Casey and Alex McCausland. They’ve hired a Brazilian maid, Stephanie Feeley, who hates to clean. She dreams of becoming a standup comedian. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Play Offs 09 at the Bloomington Playwrights Project scientists from the future cope with a world view shaken by the bat as an impossibly out of time artifact somehow related to a black hole in the head of one of our most recent Vice Presidents. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘Romeo et Juliette’ Opens At IU Opera The IU Opera Theater’s Romeo et Juliette is a delightful production with plenty of lovely music, romance, action and even some very funny moments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jookabox Releases New Album, Inspires Art Show Indianapolis-based musician David Adamson was inspired by urban plight, zombies, and the battle between good and evil while writing his latest record. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Quarryland Men’s Chorus: Touching Hearts And Funny Bones The Quarryland Men's Chorus sings for anyone anywhere, to spread their message of music, diversity, and acceptance. And they have so much fun in the process! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vivaldi Bassoon Concertos – Volume 3 Naxos has released 5 volumes in their complete Vivaldi bassoon series, and we’re listening to music from the third. Bassoonist Tamás Benkócs performs on all five recordings with the Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia, conducted by Béla Drahos. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Artist as Collector, Collector as Artist: William Itter Artist and collector William Itter has discovered that the objects he collects have served not only as inspiration for his own paintings and drawings; but his studio work, and the ideas he explores in course development, have guided his collecting decisions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Opera Theater’s Tale of Star-Cross’d Lovers “Juliette’s vocal role is especially challenging,” said Sauter. "It starts out with arias that exploit the coloratura, the high flexible parts of the voice and then by the end its lower and more dramatic. Actually, this happened because it was written for two different sopranos,” Sauter explained. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Early Day Miners Break New Ground With “The Treatment” Musician Dan Burton reflects on how he keeps things fresh a decade in as ringleader of Bloomington indie institution Early Day Miners. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Theatre of the People’s “Science Fiction Fair” When you’re seeing or reviewing a production of The Theatre of the People it’s impossible to avoid mixing in more concerns about the production process and theatrical goals than you might with another theatre group. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Theater And Drama Presents “The Clean House” Indiana University’s Department of Theatre and Drama continues its 2009-2010 season with MacArthur Fellowship winner Sarah Ruhl’s Pulitzer Prize nominated play The Clean House. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “Dancing After Dark” With Panache Getting people up to the possibility of public performance, of not just dancing for their own pleasure is a real thrill Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sounds Of South Are Heard Through The Mist In “Brigadoon” "I really enjoy and focus on my singing, but with this opportunity to play a role with a little more depth, I’ve liked exploring the acting a bit more." Jordan Goodmon who plays Fiona MacLaren Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Local And International Artists Shine In Buskirk-Chumley Season The 2009-2010 season at Bloomington's Buskirk-Chumley Theater commensed in September with The Temptations and Hoosier Dylan. The rest of the season continues the tradition of hosting the best of the international stage while putting local favorites in the spotlight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Little Bit of Evil in All of Us – Dr. Horrible on Stage "Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog" made the rounds on the internet in 2008, and it was an instant cult hit. It’s since been released on DVD, and it recently won an Emmy. Now, the Dr. Horrible story will be told on stage in Bloomington, Indiana with a cast made up of students from across the IU community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SciFi Classics Staged At Theatre of the People We worked with the original, but developed our scenes from an improv’ approach. Frankly, this is not an approach that built for efficiency. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Theatre’s “Blood Brothers” The IU Department of Theatre and Drama open their 2009-2010 season with Willy Russell’s musical Blood Brothers. Blood Brothers is set in the Liverpool where he grew up. It was right around the time and place where the Beatles were just getting started. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Edward Auer: Chopin Nocturnes Volume II There are people who’ll tell you that it must be great to be able to record, but frankly I prefer to play a concert. It begins at eight and by about ten-fifteen, it’s over. You may even have bombed,” he said with a laugh, “but it’s over. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Tribute To Diaghilev In 2009, ballet companies around the world are celebrating the the 100th anniversary of the first performance by Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. The Indiana University Ballet Theater presents their Diaghilev Tribute on Friday and Saturday, October 9-10, 2009. Choreography is by Balanchine, Department chair Michael Vernon and Bronislava Nijinska. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website tUnE-YarDs: DIY Debut Gains Larger Audience Two years ago, Merrill Garbus was a part-time nanny selling her debut album for pennies on the internet. Things are looking up, to say the least. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Annunciation + Visitation: Operatic projections of sexual insight The borders between technology and the arts have been growing thinner in this modern, digital age. That’s the focus of the 2008-2009 I-U New Frontier Program Grants. The latest project to come out of that program hits the stage this weekend at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Back to School for the Houston Fall Festival The longtime residents of a small Jackson County village were drafted into the business of historic preservation rather suddenly when, in 1990, a film production company offered a thousand dollars to burn the community’s old wooden schoolhouse down for a scene. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “Driving Miss Daisy” at the Brown County Playhouse It’s a tribute to playwright Uhrey’s grasp of the people and the period that from Daisy there is more trust and from Hoke more understanding. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “Blood Brothers” by Willy Russell I’m a twenty something who’s been in school most of her life and this woman goes from being a perky young woman in her twenties to a pretty worn out one in her forties. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Experience “Global Romance” With The Bloomington Symphony Conductor Charles Latshaw begins his third season with the orchestra. “Actually, as we’ve been rehearsing, I’ve begun to wish that we’d called it “Global Rhythm” instead of “…romance,” Latshaw said. We’re playing music of Ginastera, Schumann and Borodin and each piece offers some wonderfully tricky and intriguing rhythmic features.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indy Opera’s “Ariadne auf Naxos” Indiana University graduate Rachele Gilmore stars as the pesky Zerbinetta in the Indianapolis Opera’s production of Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos. It’s a return visit for Gilmore to the Indy Opera. She sang the role of Olympia in Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffman there in 2007. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Ladyquakes! No Limits on the Bloomington Music Scene Their fans love them. Their live shows are raucous events. Their new album is creating a buzz. And oh yeah... they're all girls. The Ladyquakes! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trendsetters: Music for Wind Band The versatility of the wind band has been widely recognized and utilized throughout the history of Western music. The beginning of the 20th century was no exception, and that’s why the Peabody Conservatory Wind Ensemble offers four of the century’s best known compositions in this style on their latest release Trendsetters: Music for Wind Band. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Composition Student Receives Second ASCAP Award Clint Needham's 2008 "Chamber Symphony" drew inspiration from the real world political climate of the last presidential election cycle. It depicts both the "turmoil of the previous eight years" and the unique personalities of the Democratic party's top candidates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Terre Haute Symphony “Planets & Star Wars” ...during our first rehearsal I'll be waving my baton and looking at the orchestra to see who plays what. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opera and Theater for Beginners Opera and theater have been stereotyped as elite art forms, but Indiana University is working hard to change that old-fashioned notion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website College Fight Songs: Hail to the Victors Bill Studwell has published two books of college fight songs with a third on the way. In addition to collecting and publishing, Bill is a critic and he ranks them. For this interview he focused on his number two selection the University of Michigan’s “Hail to the Victors.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sonatas for Viola da Gamba It has never been easy for cellist to adapt the Bach sonatas for viola da gamba to their instrument. Since Bach wrote no works for cello and accompaniment, these three sonatas are the closest they have! Cellist Audrey Cienniwa has attempted to bridge the performance gap by placing the sonatas on the the five stringed piccolo cello. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don Freund: Composition Lessons with Johann Sebastian Bach I do like to change my articulation when I play Bach. He’s such a master of both the notes and the spaces and I just can’t resist the creative opportunities that his music offers.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Local Fine Arts Students Interpret the Square We got graduates, undergraduates a couple of faculty member, a member of the Art Library staff and members of the community as well. It gave us a range of town and gown and ages.involvement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joining Forces At The Collaboration Room Community members join forces to create art in an open and welcoming environment at the Collaboration Room. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lilly Library: Anything But Hands Off At the Lilly Library, visitors are not just expected to be passive observers of the collection, but to get elbow deep in the library's books, manuscripts, puzzles and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wu’s On First The Columbus Indiana Philharmonic’s 2009-2010 season is titled “Who’s on First?” At least for the opening concert on September 19th there’s an answer. “Wu’s on First.” Pianist Di Wu returns to join David Bowden and the orchestra for Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peace Week 2009 Ingrid Skoog is a mediator and communication coach. Her partner in organizing Peace Week is Gail Merrill, a retired school teacher and peace activist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Othello by William Shakespeare Local theatre veterans are pretty used to women playing men even without the excuse of the changes in opportunities for them since the Elizabethan period. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making It in the Midwest: T.C. Steele to Today A painting by Hoosier Group painter T.C. Steele doesn’t fetch nearly as much at auction as one by William Merritt Chase, an Indiana-born artist who established himself in New York. But Steele and the Society for Western Artists went far in establishing the nuts and bolts of the art world in the heartland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “Inherit the Wind” by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee With states and school boards across the country considering adding “intelligent design” to their science curriculums, it’s a timely play. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talley’s Folly by Lanford Wilson I said that Talley’s Folly is a two character play, but that’s not quite the truth. Actually there’s a third very important character and it’s the set ! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brahms: 21 Hungarian Dances At the age of 18, Johannes Brahms was asked to tour with renowned Hungarian violinist Eduard Hoffman. Brahms was drawn to the music which Hoffman played, a combination of gypsy music and traditional "classical music. So it came as little surprise when he created two volumes of Hungarian dances taking advantage of the four-hands technique. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indiana University Art Museum Open Late For Coffeehouse Nights During the month of September, they’ll be opening their doors for an evening of coffee, snacks, music, and of course art. WFIU's David Wood spoke with Josie Larimer, the special events coordinator at the IU Art Museum about their upcoming Coffeehouse Nights! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Wells Scholar Mackenzie Hammel On Inspiration, Harping Mackenzie Hammel came to Bloomington from Cincinnati to study at the Jacob's School of Music. She's also one of this year's multi-talented Wells Scholars. Here accolades include principal harpist for the Ohio All-State Orchestra and Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra, and an appearance at the 10th World Harp Congress in Amsterdam. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Photographer John Bower Captures Indiana’s Vanishing Past John and Lynn Bower travel the highways and back roads of Indiana, seeking out artifacts of the state’s disappearing past for John to photograph. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inherit the Wind The Cardinal Stage Company opens their 2009/2010 season with Inherit the Wind. It’s a production of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s dramatization of the 1925 Scopes Trial. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BPP and Jewish Theatre of Bloomington Present “Tally’s Folly” The Bloomington Playwrights Project kicks off its 30th year with Lanford Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize winning play "Talley’s Folly" in a production cosponsored by the Jewish Theatre of Bloomington. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Italian Trumpet Concertos The role of concerto soloist in the early 18th century was moving away from a violin-centered view to incorporate wind instruments. At this time, the trumpet was still seen as an instrument whose days had passed. But thanks to some ambitious composers, it resumed a place of prominence, even before the advent of the valved trumpet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “The Rockae” by Peter Mills Indiana University’s Department of Theatre and Drama continues in their commitment to developing musical theatre this summer with a production of "The Rockae", a rock musical based on Euripides tragedy "The Bacchae." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Seamless Talent Of Indiana University’s Costume Studio Linda Pisano heads Indiana University's Costume Design Program. Working with the directors of theater productions, she and a crew of needle-wizards design the clothes that help transform actors into heroes, villains, and jesters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DM Stith David Stith, is a musician and artist who recently moved to Indiana. His debut album, Heavy Ghost is a critically acclaimed collection of orchestral folk music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Euripides Meets Glam Rock In Collegiate Premiere of “The Rockae” The Indiana University Department of Theatre and Drama is presenting the collegiate premier of the rock musical "The Rockae" based on "The Bacchae" by Euripides. WFIU’s George Walker talked with the co creators and one of the actors from the cast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Provenance: The Biggest Art Fraud Of The 20th Century WFIU’s Adam Schwartz interviews Laney Salisbury, co-author of "Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rebel: Violin Sonatas We head into the WFIU vault for this week’s featured recording, all the way back to 1999, for three of the early music world’s most celebrated musicians on one CD! "Rebel: Violin Sonatas" may have been released ten years ago, but the quality of this recording stands the test of time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “Present Laughter” At The Brown County Playhouse The Brown County Playhouse’s August 2009 show is Noel Coward’s vintage comedy Present Laughter. The production is directed by the Playhouse’s Artistic Director Jonathan Michaelsen. The show boasts a powerful ensemble with three professional actors, an actor from the Bloomington community and Indiana University Master of Fine Arts students. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giancarlo Guerrero Guest Conducts Summer Festival Orchestra Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, the Music Director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, is the final guest conductor for Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music’s Festival Orchestra. WFIU’s George Walker asked him about conducting student groups and also asked for a bit of a look into the orchestra’s kitchen, the sectional rehearsals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website American Choral Premieres The acclaimed William Ferris Chorale adds to their discography with a look at new music being written in America and some works that have been overlooked by recording ensembles. Premiere recordings from Hovhannes, Rochberg, and the ensemble’s founder, William Ferris, are among the many gems on this CD. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “The Light in the Piazza” by Adam Guettel composer Guettel gently pokes fun at the show’s dramatic conventions Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Stempel On Understanding Screenwriting Bloomington born author Tom Stempel comes back to town for his 2009 high school reunion and he’s taking the opportunity on Saturday August 1st to appear at Borders Books and Music to talk about his book "Understanding Screenwriting: Learning from Good, Not-quite-so-good, and Bad Screenplays." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Last Night of Ballyhoo at Shawnee Theatre Actor Lisa Ermel still has a semester to go for her BA in psychology from Anderson University, but she’s already had two summers of professional work in quite another area with the Shawnee Theatre of Greene County. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Summer Camp: Youngsters Making Music and Making Friends Every summer, young string players from around the country come to Bloomington, Indiana to eat/breath/sleep music. It’s the IU Summer String Academy, in its 25th year.The program is designed for youngsters to grow as musicians, but it’s also an opportunity to create connections: student to student, student to teacher, and student to accompanist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Gives Collegiate Premiere of “The Light in the Piazza” Light in the Piazza is based on a short story by Elizabeth Spencer. An American family on holiday in Italy in the 1950s has a strangely fragile daughter and deep fears about her growing infatuation with a charming Italian. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twelve Celebrated Fantaisies and Aires Varies We’re back from vacation, but if you’ve been following the WFIU website, you’ll have noticed we didn’t stop featuring recordings. So this week, we’ll look back, however briefly, at the featured CDs for July. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art Across the Americas: An Exchange Program Comes Full Circle A large colorful mural along Bloomington's new B-line trail pictures the Monroe County Courthouse just down the road from a Mayan pyramid, and juxtaposes Bloomington's favorite ice cream joint with a Guatemalan tienda where tortillas are sold. The magical landscape is the latest manifestation of the exchange project Art Across the Americas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “The Wolfman of Greene County” by Alan Shepard Last year Shepard contributed a take on the Dracula legend that was such a hit with the audience that this year he’s back with another thriller. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mario Venzago Conducts IU Festival Orchestra Swiss conductor Mario Venzago has served as music director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra since 2002, following several prestigious music directorships in Europe. Maestro Venzago is a guest conductor for the Indiana University Summer Music Festival 2009 Orchestra. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website If Musick be the Food of Love It’s definitely a marriage that works and generates an experience that’s more than either group by itself or even both groups separately. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Harmonious Blacksmith Plays Indy Early Music Fest I had always played the modern violin, But a friend brought me an instrument and said that she’d like me to play it in a group with her. - Allison Edberg Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website More Than Just High Notes: A Young Singer’s Journey To NYC Starting a career in music takes more than just hours of practicing. Opera singer Amanda Biggs is trying to turn talent into dollar signs and a profession. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “There Goes the Bride” at Brown County Playhouse The production directed by Burgun is assured. The set is one of the loveliest that I’ve seen there. The costumes are first rate and the cast is a strong one. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I Furiosi: Addicted to Love These are pieces about people who don’t just like or need love. They’ve got to have it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lend Me a Tenor at the Shawnee Theatre It's a tribute to playwright Ken Ludwig's script and to the skillful direction by Jake Miller that all this nonsense now makes total sense. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website There Goes the Bride At the Brown County Playhouse Yes, the bride has her issues with the bride’s maids, the mother and even the groom. However it’s the bride’s father with the delusion that he’s in love with a girl he met in a dream, a girl that only he can see, that really sets the tone for the hi-jinks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christopher Kyle’s “The Safety Net” Christopher Kyle’s "The Safety Net" returns to ISU’s Crossroads Repertory Theatre for 2009. Playwright Kyle was born and raised in Terre Haute and went to school at ISU. The Safety Net premiered at the Michael Weller Theater in New York in 2005, two years after Crossroads Repertory Theatre featured it as part of its New Play Tuesday Series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kapustin And Koekkoek Play The Beethoven Sonatas Violinist Sarah Kapustin and pianist Jeannette Koekkoek have played all ten of Beethoven’s sonatas in concert in Italy. They’ve recorded five of them and this summer they’re continuing to deepen their acquaintance with the pieces in three concerts at Indiana University’s Music Summer Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crossroad Repertory Theatre’s “The Velveteen Rabbit” With Shakespeare’s classic comedy Much Ado about Nothing and that most durable of classic musicals The Fantasticks up and running, the Crossroads Repertory Theatre has turned to another classic, Margery Williams Bianco’s "The Velveteen Rabbit" as the Terre Haute company reaches out not just to the most mature audience, but to children as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Baroque Virtuosity and Celtic Thunder David Greenberg is a violinist known for the variety of his interests. Critics have even borrowed a term from baseball and call him a “switch hitter.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Author Turns Mother’s Daring Trip To Nazi Germany Into Fiction For many years, Harry M. Geduld taught filmmaking and drama at IU Bloomington. Now, in his retirement, he’s become a storyteller himself—having written two collections of short stories and several plays. Geduld tells WFIU's Adam Schwartz how he created one story from his mother's most frightening experience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Conductor David Roberston Opens Festival Orchestra Concerts There are elements in Francesca da Rimini that you won't hear anywhere else. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lend Me At Tenor At The Shawnee Theatre Actor Michael Cary planned on a career in international economics. His senior project was an analysis of Asian financial criss. Then the theatre bug bit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ice Cream and Architecture at Zaharako’s We met up with Tony Moravec, the man behind the mission of restoring Zaharako’s Ice Cream Parlor. He not only has experience renovation old buildings, but he worked in an ice cream parlor as a kid. “So I thought, 'how could I go wrong?'” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The B-town Comedy Festival Similar to the popular show, "Last Comic Standing," comedians go head to head and are eliminated each week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jonathan Biss, pianist Pianist Jonathan Biss returns to Bloomington for a 2009 Indiana University Summer Music Festival concert in Recital Hall on July 3. On his program are works by Haydn, Beethoven, Kurtag and Schumann. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chopin: 21 Mazurkas Even a poor pianist like me has been exposed to the compositions of Frédèric Chopin. His music is almost synonymous with the instrument. Chopin is also exceedingly well-known for his use of ethic music types in classical composition, including the folk dance from his native county, Poland, the mazurka. . Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “The Velveteen Rabbit” Gets A Musical Makeover Sharon Ammen is the Director of Theatre and Drama at Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods College. She’s also an actor, director and the author of a new musical adaptation of the classic children’s story “The Velveteen Rabbit” at the Crossroads Repertory Theatre's 2009 Season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Last Five Years At The Shawnee Theatre It is true that the story lines are going in opposite directions, but again it’s to Brown’s credit that the action is always clear. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ex Umbris The vocal and instrumental quintet Ex Umbris presents Melancholy: Downe in the Dumpes in Elizabethan England as part of the 2009 Indianapolis Early Music Festival. George Walker talked with founding member Paul Shipper. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fantasticks This story of a couple of lovers and the fathers who at least appear to want to keep them apart has a long history. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wire’s David Simon: From Baltimore To The Big Easy How Baltimore-based writer and producer David Simon turned his 12 years on the crime beat of a daily newspaper into the critically-acclaimed series The Wire. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warding Off the Evil Eye at the Mathers Museum An exhibit at the Mathers Museum displays objects from different cultures that are believed to protect the user or owner from harm and to promote good luck. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Streetcar Named Desire Sara Pavlak is an actor with big dreams, but one she’d never dared to dream is coming true this summer at the Shawnee Theatre. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Ground to Skyline: Limestone’s Storied Legacy During the nation's second century, a strong, durable, fine-grained stone made its way from the quarries of south central Indiana to the nation’s most significant landmarks. This year, a consortium of interests in Monroe and Lawrence Counties is raising awareness about Indiana’s limestone heritage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Much Ado About Nothing The happy ending is saluted with “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Isn’t Got that Swing)” by Duke Ellington and Irving Mills. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vivaldi and Piazzolla’s Four Seasons The last thing anyone needs is ANOTHER recording of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, right? Not necessarily. Violinist Lara St. John teams up with the hit of last year's BBC Proms, the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuala for a pairing you won't forget. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bedlam, Back and Beyond Harpsichordist Holly Chatham and cellist Joanna Blendulf met at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music in the late 1990s. After playing professionally in a number of groups the two came together in 2002 to form their own group. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marx Brothers’ “Duck Soup” The Merry MAC Players in Martinsville have the audacity to produce the “Marx Brothers’ “Duck Soup.”” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup Russell McGee with Hayden Moore and Shani Wahrman are putting the Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup back in the theatre and they’re making it into a musical Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crossroads Rep Theatre’s Much Ado about Nothing I felt that "Much Ado about Nothing" had real resonance with both the difficult times that our country is going through and with the tough times of the thirties. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Home of the Brave: Performing the National Anthem The National Anthem is harder to sing than one might imagine. And what must it be like to sing it alone in front of a crowd of people? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The All Night Strut The Brown County audience responded with rhythmic clapping, lots of applause and even a few ‘amens'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wedding Singer this is a community that very much cares for and supports its theatre Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dowland : The Queen’s Galliard - Lute Music, Vol. 4 Lutenist Nigel North is at it again. This time it's for volume four of John Dowland's lute music, titled "The Queen's Galliard." This recording is completely devoted to Queen Elizabeth I's favorite courtly dance of French origin, the Galliard. Over 25 tracks you'll hear Dowland's many variations on this dance form. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Circus Songs: An Annotated Anthology It’s as if someone suddenly produced “Hamlet” and then nothing else. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A World of Puzzles Indiana University's Lily Library displays a selection of mechanical puzzles ranging from antique Chinese puzzles to the Rubik's Cube. Curator, Jillian Hinchliffe, explains what makes this exhibit unique. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website C.B. Fisk Organ Moves Into Auer Hall June 1st marked the beginning of the end of a long journey at the Jacobs School of Music. Students and faculty as well as workers from organ builder C.B. Fisk all took part in unloading and carrying the many pieces of what will eventually come together as the new Auer Hall organ. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Up "Up" is nothing if not a garden of delights. This is the kind of movie that Hollywood used to do so well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wedding Singer at Shawnee Theatre "About the only thing you won’t see me doing this summer is sewing on the costumes." Kevin Guthridge who plays the lead in the Shawnee Theatre's "The Wedding Singer." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carole Terry Plays The Watjen Concert Organ This week's featured CD is the premiere recording on the Watjen Concert Organ. Organist Carole Terry tours the repertoire for this release on Loft Recordings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brown County Playhouse’s “The All Night Strut!” “My grandmother told me that she got her first kiss during a song that I’ll be singing,” Mandy Striph. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Little Bands, Big Fun If you’re looking to play four instruments, to dig in to repertoire ranging from jazz to funk to rock and roll, and to jam with several others doing the same thing, look no farther than Dr. Music’s Little Bands School. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Picturing Indiana Limestone The Indiana University Art Museum celebrates Limestone Month with four rare watercolor paintings by noted Hoosier artist, Otto Stark. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Terminator: Salvation I'm going to plant a flag and say that the fourth film in the "Terminator" series is not science fiction. Furthermore, that's exactly its problem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Between Flute and Guitar The Noteworthy Duo perform music of Latin American on "Between Flute and Guitar." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sol Gabetta: Cantabile and Shostakovich Sol Gabetta's fourth CD, "Cantabile", was released simultaneously with her third in September of 2008. So for this week, we'll take a listen to both of them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Virtuosic Adventures: Young String Players Take France By Storm The Violin Viruotosi will be embarking on a two-week tour of France. For these nine young musicians, it will be memorable, both musically and culturally. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Portrait Of Philip Glass By Angèle Dubeau and La Pietà “Things happen sometimes without, you know, thinking really.” That’s how Angele Dubeau says La Pietà became an all woman ensemble. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul SanGregory: Music That Blends East and West IU alumnus and composer Paul SanGregory combines Chinese lyrics with Western-style art song, integrating his Western training with Chinese musical ideas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Festival Of Plays The Bloomington Playwrights Project hosts its first festival featuring eleven different plays ranging from traditional comedies and dramas to absurdist humor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bloomington Playwrigths Project’s “BloomingShorts” The Bloomington Playwrights Project is offering a festival of such richness and variety that it beggars description. This beggar will try. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Al Cobine: Another Indiana Jazz Legend Passes Away Al Cobine, the Indiana bandleader, composer/arranger, and saxophonist who helped raise Bloomington’s music scene to national stature, passed away Thursday at the age of 82. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dancing For A Cause The Aurthur Murray Dance Studio hosts its 3rd Annual “Dancing with the Celebrities” featuring six local Bloomington celebrities showing off their dance moves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Angels and Demons This is going to be only half a review of "Angels and Demons" - because I could only make it through the first half of the film. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Bowden Leads Ensembles In The 10th Annual “Salute!” “After the community built this lovely space to honor our men and women in the services we wanted to use it.” Henry McCawley, Columbus’s “The Republic.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It Started With A Mural: Art Across the Americas How a collaborative art project took a group of Bloomington students to Guatemala, then opened up a world of possibility. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ensemble “¡Sacabuche!” Plays Top Music Festivals The ensemble "¡Sacabuche!" will appear in this year's Boston and Bloomington Early Music Festivals. Director Linda Pearse tells you what to expect. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Street Sounds: The Moveable Beat of Busman’s Holiday Brothers Lewis and Addison Rogers have played orchestral pop music on the streets of downtown Bloomington since 2004. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Obsessed Why, with so much talent warming up in the bullpen, did we have to play by the hoary rules of "Fatal Attraction?" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Star Trek WFIU Movie Critic Peter Noble Kuchera reviews J.J. Abrams take on the Star Trek Franchise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website More Than Just the Standards: IU Summer Music Fest Preview For music lovers in Southern and Central Indiana, this summer’s Indiana University Jacobs School of Music's Summer Music Festival will certainly be something exciting. The orchestra and the opera programs are gearing up for an exceptional series of performances. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mei Zhong Brings Chinese Songs To The West Art songs regularly come from countries such as Germany, France, England, and Italy. Soon, you may be hearing songs from China as well. Mei Zhong, an associate professor of music at Ball State University, is making Chinese songs accessible to Western singers through transliterations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boxcar Books Shows Off Staff Art Boxcar Books, a non-profit, volunteer run organization which provides another venue for local artists to showcase their work, is turning the tables and showing off staff artwork, Friday May 8th. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anne Akiko Meyers “Smile” Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers was introduced the American public through two appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and the Emmy Awards at the age of 11. Her latest project is a journey that takes this 39 year-old artist across many borders of musical cultures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Tempest Just when you think that the theatre season is closed at Indiana University, a rare surprise appears. The Department of Theatre and Drama’s Murray McGibbon with South African actor Stephen Gurney as the wizard Prospero along with IU students and other guests revisit Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” in the Wells-Metz Theatre. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bloomington Symphony’s “Jazz in the Concert Hall” The Bloomington Symphony presents "Jazz in the Concert Hall," A program featuring works by George Gershwin, David Baker, Antonin Dvorak and Dmitri Shostakovich. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indiana University Auditorium Announces ‘09-’10 Season "We've got a season that I think offers something for everyone and anyone." Douglas Booher, Director, Indiana University Auditorium. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Focus on a Tragic Landscape: Guggenheim Fellow Osamu James Nakagawa An associate professor of photography in Indiana University’s Hope School of Fine Arts has been added to the list of Guggenheim Fellows, including the likes of Linus Pauling, Martha Graham and Vladimir Nabokov. Osamu James Nakagawa has most recently been focusing on a dark chapter of history that Japanese textbooks tend to gloss over, or omit altogether. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Mathers Museum’s “Find a Fable, Tell a Tale: A Story of Story Telling” When Indiana University Folklore undergrad Amanda Hotz was considering what to do for her first museum exhibit as a student curator, she knew she “wanted it to be something to do with storytelling.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website State of Play Cal McAffrey (played by Russel Crowe in the film STATE OF PLAY) has become a crumudgeon. He’s been a reporter for “The Washington Globe” for fifteen years (and writes on a sixteen-year-old computer – surprising that it’s not a manual typewriter). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An American Heritage of Spirituals This week we turn the clock back 13 years. In 1996, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir released the CD “An American Heritage of Spirituals” under conductor Albert McNeil. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website South African Actors Join American Students For Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” South African actors and Indiana Unviersity students are performing Shakespeare’s final play, The Tempest in a production directed by IU faculty member Murray McGibbon with guest South African actor Stephen Gurney in the role of the magician Prospero. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indiana University’s President McRobbie Spins Disks At WFIU Indiana University President Michael McRobbie and IU Jazz Legend and Professor David Baker sat in with jazz host Joe Bourne on Just You & Me on Friday, April 24th. They had a free-wheeling jam session of music and commentary with a little music from Miles Davis, a few David Baker tunes, and some play by Carla Bley. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indiana University Printmakers’ “False Impressions” Four graduate students from Indiana University’s Hope School of Fine Arts show off their artistic expression with “False Impressions,”a two-day exhibit, beginning May 1st, that examines printmaking through the context of installation. Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Althea Murphy-Price explains how the students used the space to help create the art. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indiana University’s All-Campus Orchestra Tackles Music Fit For Professionals This semester was something special for a group of musicians at Indiana University. The All-Campus Orchestra, under the baton of Ben Bolter, is comprised of students from all walks of life at IU who just love to play. Can this orchestra pull off a program of music fit for professionals? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Violinist Mark O’Connor’s “Americana Symphony” According to O'Connor, “The three poles or sources of my music are classical, folk and jazz. My two mentors were the great Texan and south western style fiddler Benny Thomasson and the French jazz violinist Stephan Grappelli. As to classical, I have to say that I’m a Beethoven man.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “Doubt” by John Patrick Shanley Oscar Wilde wrote that "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple” and I can’t think of a better dramatic example than the Cardinal Stage Company’s staging of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt at the John Waldron Arts Center. This is a review that will be one question after another. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Euripides Revival: Beauty Betrayed Theatre of the People wraps up its first year in grand style with two productions that have so many strengths that I wish I had far more space than I have. They began their season of twofers with stories of “daring deeds” from Ibsen moved to “ladies of lust” with Oscar Wilder and August Strindberg and now its “Beauty Betrayed” with "Medea" and "The Trojan Women" by Euripides. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monsters vs. Aliens in 3D Monsters vs. Aliens has been out a few weeks, so forgive me if you’ve already lost the argument with your spawn and have seen it. I held out while I could. It sure looked like a corporate golem from DreamWorks, the house of SHREK, a shiny disco ball of pop culture references substituting for humor and hollow, rubbery characters tiptoeing across the digital Astroturf with Barbie-doll-stiffness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intimate Barrios On her most recent CD, Berta Rojas pays homage to Agustin Barrios in a compilation of works from his catalog; many of which she performs based on versions from Barrios’ recording and manuscript copies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sounds Of South Presents “Thoroughly Modern Millie” "Thoroughly Modern Millie" began as a retro movie and went on to a second incarnation as a retro stage musical. Its set in 1922, so as you expect from the title, irony is a key. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Romance of Barnabas, Columbus Indiana Philharmonic “The performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto will be based on recent scholarship that moves away from the stodgy and the luxuriantly broad to one of gesture, of drama and transparency.” David Bowden, Artistic Director Columbus Indiana Philharmonic Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Journey to the New World, guitarist Sharon Isbin When asked if her many adventurous hobbies were a sort of metaphor for her latest CD “Journey to the New World, ” guitarist Sharon Isbon said, “That’s a thoughtful question, for a second I thought you were going to ask me how come I’m still alive,” quipped Isbin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A “Smile” from Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers "Yes, it is always me, but sometimes I did feel a little schizoid." Anne Akiko Meyers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde After reading Hans Bethge’s The Chinese Flute, Gustav Mahler was struck by the depiction of earthly beauty and chose to set verses to set in "Das Lied von der Erde", (The Songs of the Earth). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Waldron Auditorium filled with “Doubt” The Cardinal Stage Company wraps up their 2008-2009 season with Doubt, John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play. It’s set in a Catholic School in 1964 and pits a popular priest against a strong willed nun in a battle with dramatic and comic aspects that turns into a gripping mystery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bloomington Firefighters Continue Pipes And Drums Tradition On the morning of April 10th, there's a training session at the Bloomington Fire Department Headquarters. But this one is a little different from what you'd expect. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Restless Rocker Reflects: Todd Rundgren at DePauw Having hosted luminaries from Margaret Thatcher to Elie Wiesel, DePauw University’s Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture series most recently featured a talk on "Music, Technology and Risk-Taking" by musician, producer, and video pioneer Todd Rundgren. Currently on tour to promote his latest album Arena, Rundgren spoke at DePauw two nights after rocking the Vogue in Indianapolis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Theatre of the People Revives Euripides Theatre of the People is at it again with another theatre bargain, a challenging two-fer, Euripides’ "Medea" and "The Trojan Women". And once more they’re not satisfied with the standard text. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto Indiana University's Art Museum features fifteen black-and-white photos by world renowned photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto in the exhibit, "Transcendent." Curator, Nan Brewer describes Sugimoto's artistic style. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tell No One If you're a fan of thrillers in the vein of Hitchcock's specialty - an innocent man wrongly accused - or more recent Swiss watches like the ‘80s classic "No Way Out" -- then I'd like to draw your attention to an essential contribution to the genre. It's a French film called "Tell No One," and if you missed it last summer, and in its recent run at the Ryder Film Festival, it came out last week on DVD. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oklahoma! “Oklahoma!” is at the Ruth N. Halls theatre in a terrific production. Saturday’s audience did give the cast a standing ovation, but what I noticed most about the crowd was their grin and smile filled faces. It was that kind of satisfaction that struck me. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Edgewood High School’s Masqued Crafters Question Shakepeare At "Call Me Shakespeare" all seems pretty nicely laid out for a typical Chautauqua styled evening. But then members of the audience playing Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain chime in with their comments. Hamlet drops by for a monologue, and things start to unravel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Youth Orchestra’s Spring Concert “An Awesome Experience” Under conductor Jose Valencia, the Musical Arts Youth Orchestra’s spring concert featured classics from the repertoire along with Christopher Renk's winning entry in the MAYO Composition Contest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Filmmaker Steven Montgomery Finds Fulfillment By Changing His Dream In 1980, IU alumnus Steven Montgomery seemed poised for a successful career as a filmmaker when his first film, the documentary "Hobie's Heroes", was met with wide acclaim. But his envisioned career never materialized and he fell into despair. How he bounced back was the subject of a talk he gave on April 8th, 2009 at the Indiana Memorial Union. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Francesca Sobrer Directs Bloomington North’s “The Pajama Game” When Bloomington High School North Theatre and Fine Arts Department wanted to put on the musical comedy "The Pajama Game", they naturally looked to faculty member Francesca Sobrer to direct. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Music And Dance Benefits The Hungry The Indiana University Bloomington Contemporary Dance Program and the Jacobs School of Music present the fourth annual "Hammer and Nail" concert on the 18th and 19th in the Buskirk-Chumley Theatre. A free a benefit for the Hoosier Hills Food Bank that encourages the audience to come to see the dances, to dine downtown and to donate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bloomington Playwrights Projects’s ‘Chicks II’ In Chicks with Dicks II at the Bloomington Playwrights Project playwright Trista Baldwin takes the brawling motor cycle mamas of Chicks I from the mean streets of Bedford to outer space for “Battle with the Cannibal Sluts in Outer Space.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make A Joyful Ring: Bell Choirs and Community Music In Churches Church music is about more than organs and choirs. Handbell choirs can also play an important part in a worship service -- and the sound is something magnificent and other-worldly! Bell Choir Director Elaine Sonnenberg gives an introduction to the world of handbell choirs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Paintings of Patrick Donley The Wandering Turtle Art Gallery features acrylic artwork from Kentucky artist and musician Patrick Donley. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adventureland Do you remember Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, after they finish their tennis game in "Annie Hall"? Now think, maybe, of Adam Sandler and Emily Watson, after dinner and drinks, heading back to her hotel room in the film "Punch Drunk Love". These couples FLOAT. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indiana University Theatre’s “Oklahoma!” In Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” there’s a “bright golden haze on the meadow.” WFIU’s George Walker found a little bit of that golden haze as he talked with the Indiana University undergraduate theater majors who play the lovers Curly and Laurey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Most Happy Fella by Frank Loesser The opening night of the Indiana University Opera Theater’s production of Frank Loesser’s “The Most Happy Fella” was a celebratory evening. It began with a welcome and the announcement of next year’s season from Dean Gwen Richards, proceeded to a surprise sing along with the orchestra for the Dean’s birthday and ended with a standing ovation for IU faculty member Timothy Noble who appeared as Tony in his final stage role. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biber: Balletti And Sonatas For Trumpets And Strings Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704) was one of the most important composers of the during the late 17th century. His compositional output has kept many baroque musicians in gigs, so when René Clemencic and his Clemencic Consort were deciding on music for trumpet and violin, there wasn't too much guesswork as to what they'd be recording. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘Chicks’ Sequel Comes To Bloomington Playwright’s Project In “Chicks with Dicks II” playwright Trista Baldwin takes her gutsy feminist heroine into the far reaches of the cosmos in a “Battle with Cannibal Sluts from Outer Space.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leroy Anderson: Orchestral Music, Vol. 4 Leroy Anderson is a name you don't normally hear outside of the Christmas season. He's probably best known for his holiday classics like "Sleigh Ride" and "Bugler's Holiday", but he was no one trick pony. Anderson composed well over 60 concert works, many of them programmatic in nature with themes ranging from The Typewriter to the songs of Scotland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I Love You, Man Even the title is something so many of us men can’t say: “I Love You, Man”. Other movies have treated the theme – that American culture provides no avenue for men to express same-sex, heterosexual affection – but none have so successfully mined it for gags. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bloomington South Seniors End Long Running Partnership With “Godspell” Bloomington High School South seniors Taylor Crousore and David Blackwell were sad to end their high school careers alternating the lead role in “Carousel.” Crousore, half jokingly mentioned doing one more show, a small one perhaps, but a chance to do one more. Now the two are playing opposite each other once more as Jesus and Judas in South’s production of “Godspell.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website At 50, Barbie Still Inspiring Artists The anatomically formidable plaything Mattel first cranked out in 1959 is celebrating her 50th birthday this year. But there doesn't seem to be any diminishment of the enjoyment that little girls are having playing with--and sometimes mutilating--their Barbies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Baritone Timothy Noble Is “The Most Happy Fella” IU Faculty member Timothy Noble says, “there were two shows that I wanted to do, but never had the opportunity. They were “The Most Happy Fella” and “Carousel.” Actually, Tony from Frank Loesser’s musical is closer to the kind of guy that I am, so I’m glad to have the chance to play him.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hold Steady: From Bars to Ballrooms The Hold Steady are a rock and roll quintet based out of Brooklyn, New York. Since the release of their first album in 2004, the band has been coined by many major press outlets as “America’s best bar band”, due to their dynamic performances and constant touring. The Hold Steady performs at Jake's Nightclub in Bloomington, Indiana on April 4th. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Actor Tim Hardy: Reinventing Shakespeare English actor Tim Hardy was in residency at IUPUI for a week in late March where he gave lectures on making Shakespeare fresh for contemporary audiences and performed a one-man play, Galileo, which depicted the astronomer’s trial for heresy in 1633. Hardy also visited the IU Bloomington campus one afternoon, where he spoke to an audience of about 100 students, many in the acting program, at the Well/Metz Theatre. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Singing Hoosiers Not A Class But A Group Of Friends “The Singing Hoosiers isn’t like a class it’s like hanging out with your friends,” says IU Senior and Student Manager Anne Litchfield. Litchfield has been a member of the group directed by Professor Michael Schwartzkopf since she was a freshman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Motivation For Cancer Benefit Comes From Family, The President Singer, actress and teacher Meera Popkin-Tarack found the inspiration to organize a local benefit for the American Cancer Society in many places. Meera says that her family's history with cancer was one of the reasons she wanted to create this event. But, really a lot of the motivation came from President Obama. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Film Festival To Mark Diversity Theatre’s 25th Anniversary Bloomington, Indiana's Diversity Theatre is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a film festival. WFIU's George Walker talked with founding member Audrey Heller and organizer Babita Lamsal Upadhyay about the wide variety of diversity that the films address. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website African American Dance Company Showcases Dance Styles Of The African Diaspora Indiana University's African American Dance Company hosts its 35th annual spring concert. Using dance to create different moods while relating the human condition in the African Diaspora, the dancers mix jazz, modern, and ballet in the performance. Iris Rosa, professor and director of the dance company explains to WFIU's Erica Hunter why they integrated a political theme into the show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Drowsy Chaparone “The Drowsy Chaperone” at the IU Auditorium is a very pleasant evening of musical theater that spoofs musical theater. The format is reminiscent of “Our Town,” but instead of a somewhat dignified and distant narrator describing Grover’s Corners we have a very personable, lonely young man, played by John West. WFIU's George Walker has the review. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The King of Instruments, Dissected The organist at any given Sunday service is one busy person! Edwin Penhorwood talks about the role the organ plays in a service and gives a brief tutorial demonstrating the wide range of colors and sounds the organ can create. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Columbus Indiana Phil Takes On The Challenges Of Beethoven Indiana Philharmonic conductor David Bowden describes to WFIU's George Walker the challenges of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. He admits that Beethoven asks the chorus to do things that you really shouldn't ask a chorus to do. And he makes his case for it, along with Bach's B-minor Mass, being one of the two ultimate choral orchestral pieces of Western Music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Theatre: The America Play Suzan-Lori Parks “The America Play” is at the Wells-Metz Theatre in a thoroughly fascinating production directed by Edris Cooper-Anafowoshe. The piece is hard to describe. In some places it feels like a dream play in other sections a piece of absurdist drama, but throughout it has the flavor of an American tall tale. WFIU's George Walker has a complete review. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website If Ignorance Is Bliss, What is “Knowing”? Movie Critic Peter Noble-Kuchera is leery of the word “masterpiece,” though he's guilty of using it on rare occasions. That description implies, what, that a flim is flawless? That it is the quintessence of a great director’s career? That it will stand outside of time? “Knowing” is none of those things. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website J.S. Bach: Orgelbüchlein For four weeks in the year 1717, Johann Sebastian Bach was held in custody by his Patron, the Duke of Weimar. During those weeks of November it seems that Bach began the Little Organ Book or "Orgelbüchlein" a project meant to instruct the young organist in the playing of chorales. The Ensemble Mare Nostrum has recorded the full 45 chorales, joined by soprano Céline Scheen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indiana Univeristy Ballet’s “Variations on a Russian Theme” Indiana University's Ballet Theater closes its season with "Variations on a Russian Theme," a performance which includes a modern version of the classical ballet, "Swan Lake." Michael Vernon, IU's ballet department chair explains why audience members will love this performance Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Jazz in Bloomington Take a glimpse into the future of jazz in Bloomington on Friday March 27th at the 5th annual musical showcase of young jazz performers. Monika Herzig co-founder of Jazz from Bloomington describes the style of music people will hear by these young performers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Auditorium Welcomes “The Drowsy Chaparone” Actor and singer John West says that he’s found the perfect part for his talents in the touring production of “The Drowsy Chaperone.” His central role in the musical is called “The Man in the Chair,” and that’s where he pretty much stays for the entire show. “I’m an actor and a singer, but no one has ever been willing to pay me to dance,” says West. WFIU's George Walker has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “Swan Lake” Takes Flight at IU Ballet For this year’s IU Spring Ballet the Department Chair Michael Vernon elected to split the staging of the classic “Swan Lake” with guest artist and former American Ballet Theatre principal Cynthia Gregory. WFIU’s George Walker talked to Cynthia Gregory about coaching the role of the twin swans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transcendent: The Photographs of Hiroshi Sugimoto An exhibition of fifteen prints by the internationally renowned photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto is currently on view at the Indiana University Art Museum in Bloomington. A fixture of the contemporary art scene for more than three decades, Sugimoto's photography has recently surfaced in the pop music world as well, as the cover image of U2's newest album, No Line on the Horizon. WFIU's Yaël Ksander spoke with curator, Nan Brewer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Darnielle: The Man Behind the Mountain John Darnielle is the lyricist, guitarist, and only constant member of prolific indie rock act the Mountain Goats. The New Yorker referred to him as "America’s best non-hip-hop lyricist”. His 16th, and most recent album is 2008’s "Heretic Pride". WFIU’s Josephine McRobbie caught up with Darnielle to chat about his music, recent novel, and how he ended up on a hip-hop album. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Should You Be Blu? A smart consumer will investigate a technological change, evaluate whether it's an iteration or a leap, and whether it's a leap he finds truly meaningful. Then he'll wait for the "sweet spot" when the technology is widespread enough to reach a mass-market price. But if you are a serious movie-lover, and you can scrape together just under $1,000, it's time to jump. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hungarian Music for Cello and Piano During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the music Hungary saw a growth and world-wide popularity it hadn't seen before or since. Composers like Bela Bartok, Franz Liszt and Zoltan Kodaly became household names, at least in the homes of classical music aficionados. On this week's featured CD, cellist Mark Kosower and pianist Jee-Won Oh celebrate the music written by these composers and others for the versatile combination of cello and piano. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The America Play: “A Vibrant Living History” From the IU Theatre production of "The America Play," George Walker talks to actor Jamaal McCray about playing the Foundling Father, a character who makes his living re enacting the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. And director Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe discusses Suzan-Lori Parks feeling that history is a vibrant living thing that echoes in both our past and our present . Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Remembering Jazz Saxophonist David Young The 1940s and 50s Indianapolis jazz scene produced several musicians who would go on to careers of international note-trombonist J.J. Johnson, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, guitarist Wes Montgomery, and trombonist/cellist and jazz educator David Baker. An unsung hero of that scene recently passed away; WFIU's David Brent Johnson talked with David Baker about his friend and musical cohort David Young. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Irish Dancers Find Their Identity In Bloomington Last summer, before the start of classes, freshman Catherine O'Malley realized that Indiana University did not have an outlet for local Irish Dancers, so she thought she'd take things into her own hands and started to reach out to a group through Facebook. WFIU's David Wood talked to Catherine O'Malley and Iris Summers from the IDentity Irish dancers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kinsey Gallery Displays Art from the East The Kinsey Institute showcases Asian art in its exhibit Eros in Asia: Erotic art from Iran to Japan. Curator Catherine Johnson-Roehr explains what makes this exhibition special. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Terre Haute Symphony Swings The Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra and conductor David Bowden welcome "Five By Design" for their upcoming performance of "Club Swing." Bowden spoke to George Walker about the way the orchestra turns itself into a big band, how the Terre Haute strings swing and just how the comedy of Spike Jones fits into the whole show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phoenix Theatre Gets Stamp of Approval For“Mauritius” Mauritius is just a tiny Island off the coast of Africa in the southwest Indian Ocean. In the world of stamp collecting, Mauritius is famous for 2 of the rarest stamps in the World, the 1847 "Post Office" Penny Orange and Two Pence Blue. Those stamps are at the center of "Mauritius,"Theresa Rebeck's atmospheric mystery drama currently playing at the Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis. George Walker has a review. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opera Without Words The world of opera is ever expanding and constantly pulling in new listeners. But some folks out there just can get past the sound of the classically trained voice. If you're one of these people, then the BBC Concert Orchestra is your new best friend. On "Opera without Words" conductor Leonard Slatkin leads them in orchestral versions of classics from Leoncavallo, Verdi, Mozart and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Local Music Student Wins Place In YouTube Symphony For Jacobs School of Music doctoral student Daniel Stein, his latest audition was just a little different than the usual; just him, his computer, and a video of Tan Dun conducting. WFIU's David Wood talked to Stein about his successful audition for the YouTube Symphony. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Painter Tim Kennedy Captures “Perry Four” Painter Tim Kennedy is currently exhibiting his latest collection of paintings titled "Perry Four" at the First Street Gallery in New York. WFIU's Yaël Ksander spoke with Kennedy about his new works and the balance between abstraction and figuration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Watchmen The film version of the 1980s graphic novel "Watchmen" could not hope to be definitive; the source is uncommonly dense. Directors such as Terry Gilliam have thrown themselves at a treatment of the material for a decade, breaking, always, like angry surf against a cliff. There's that much going on in the book. Read on... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lotus Foundation Hosts Lakota Hoop Dancer Lakota hoop dancer, flutist and storyteller, Kevin Locke, will give an interactive performance on Thursday March 12th. LuAnne Holladay, assistant director of the Lotus Education and Arts Foundation describes what particpants can expect. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Director Bill Fabris Stages Indy Opera’s “Pirates” The Indianapolis Opera have selected veteran stage director Bill Fabris for their March 13 and 15, 2009 production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance". Fabris describes his production to WFIU's George Walker as solidly grounded in the D'Oyle Carte tradition with homages to a variety of other musical theater greats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Singer-Songwriter Joan Baez To Make Bloomington Visit Joan Baez will make an appearance at Bloomington's Buskirk-Chumley Theater this Friday. Baez told WFIU's George Walker how she picks her songs, how she makes them her own and why she takes the bus... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Schubert Lieder Franz Schubert may not have invented German art song or "Lieder" but he almost single-handedly cemented its importance in the development of music in the 19th century. He composed nearly 600 songs, many of which continue to play a crucial role in the training of the classical voice. On this recording from the Roméo Records label, soprano Sharon Rostorf-Zamir and pianist Daniel Gortler perform a selection of Schubert's best-loved lieder. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “Mamma Mia!” Cast Includes IU Alumna The IU Auditorium plays host to the hit broadway musical "Mamma Mia!" this weekend. Ensemble member and understudy Stephanie Lynge, IU '92, talks about her undergrad days in Bloomington and singing in a "juke box musical." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Schoolman’s Colorful Canes: Politics, Patriotism and Paint Continuing the Indiana University Artsweek celebration, the "Colorful Canes of John Schoolman," exhibit adds a unique perspective on politics through a collection of hand crafted walking canes by 100 year old John Schoolman. Jon Kay, director of Traditional Arts Indiana, explains the importance of this unique walking stick exihibit Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Evening With Maya Angelou Indiana University continues its Artsweek celebration with a special oration from legendary author and poet, Maya Angelou. Coordinator of Artsweek Sherry Knighton-Schwandt notes the contribution Angelou has made to the arts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Theatre: An Ideal Husband “An Ideal Husband” by Oscar Wilde is the current offering at IU’s Ruth N. Halls Theatre. The sets by Seamus Bourne are creatively designed and varied. Erica Gries’s costuming is beautifully done and executed. Laura Kramer’s original music with Liz Replogle’s sound design add just the right thematic touches. Fontaine Syers’ direction is clear, crisp [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stage Combat: “A Little Bit Of Storytelling And Then Safety” At Indiana University theater department, where students are taught how to act, sing, and dance, they also learn how to fight on stage and in front of a camera. WFIU's Adam Schwartz visited a stage combat class to learn the secrets of making fake violence look and sound real. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bluegrass Artist Ralph Stanley’s Staying Power Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys come to the Buskirk-Chumley Theatre on Friday March 6th. Stanley talked with WFIU's George Walker about his career and enduring influence on Bluegrass. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lincolnshire Posy: Music for Band by Percy Grainger Our first recording for March comes is another release from the Dallas Wind Symphony. Jerry Junkin leads this internationally known ensemble on a CD dedicated to music for Band by Percy Grainger. Whether you played in your school band or are completely new to this literature, the works of Grainger hold a special place in the collection. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Opera Theatre: Handel’s Giulio Cesare The IU Opera Theatre’s production of George Frederic Handel’s setting of the Caesar and Cleopatra story really fits with Arts Week’s theme of Politics in the Arts. There’s international politics as Rome’s Caesar extends his sway over Egypt with the victory of Pompeo. There’s court and family politics as Queen Cleopatra and her bother King [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Soulful Sounds of South Africa Grammy award winning group Ladysmith Black Mambazo makes its first appearance at Indiana University on Monday March 2nd. The a capella ensemble uses South African rhythms and gospel music to create a unique and soulful sound. Director of the IU Auditorium, Doug Booher told Erica Hunter why this group is unique... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cool Sculptures series on March 1st with a special exploration of ice including demonstrations of ice sculpting and a chance for participants to make ice candles. Andrea Oeding, Assistant Gallery Operations Manager explains what makes this event worthwhile. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spirit of Monroe County III Peter Noble-Kuchera reviews the third installment of the WTIU documentary focusing on the people and culture of Monroe County, Indiana. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maya Angelou Makes Artsweek Visit Poet, historian, author, civil-rights activist, playwright and composer Maya Angelou's March 1st Artsweek appearance is sold out, but you can hear her in a brief as she talked about the arts, politics, creativity and electricity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fatted Calf String Band Keeps Old Time Alive The Fatted Calf String Band are a four-piece old time band, who use their histories in punk and rock music to play these tunes, in their words, "hard, fast, and a little ornery" at cafes, bars, and even the odd square dance. WFIU's Josephine McRobbie has more... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Opera Theater: Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Opera That Conquers Conductor Gary Thor Wedow and stage director Tom Diamond bring a long history of work on baroque opera together and on Handel's "Giulio Cesare" apart to this production. Oddly enough, it's Gary who talks about the dramatic stage impact and Tom who dwells on the music realm in the strange and beautiful realm of the countertenor in the interview. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SPEA Exhibit: Black History in Photos The Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs commemorates black history with a month long exhibit of photos featuring African Americans making a difference in their field, career. Liz Peck, the assistant director of student services describes what makes this exhibit unique. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stone Belt Empowers Through The Arts Stone Belt's Art and Craft program goes beyond occupational therapy. The art program is right at the heart of the agency's mission. WFIU's Yaël Ksander got to know a few of those individuals, who are starting to define themselves as artists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Author Anthony Arnove: The People Speak Author Anthony Arnove talks about working with historian Howard Zinn on the followi up to Zinn’s People’s History and how a key scene in the movie Good Will Hunting le to the development of the project into a theatre and then a video production. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra: A Musical Escapade As part of the Artsweek celebration, The Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra will make their first Bloomington appearance with a musical tour of Europe. Martie Perry of the IBO explains what listeners can expect to hear during the performance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rebecca Clarke: String Chamber Music This week we highlight a recording of chamber works for strings of the 20th century English composer Rebecca Clarke. Violist Kenneth Martinson and pianist Christopher Taylor perform with the Julstrom String Quartet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ashley Gilbertson: The Iraq War in Photos The Indiana University School of Fine Arts helps kick off Arts Week with Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, an exhibit of photos by photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson. The exhibit depicts riveting images of America's early battles in Iraq. Megan Abajian from the SoFA Gallery explains the importance of this exhibit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bloomington Playwrights Project: 2009 Ballot Box Blizzard The Bloomington Playwrights Project's 2009 Ballot Box Blizzard offers thirty plays by twenty-four playwrights in just a little over two hours. In fitting with IU and Bloomington's Arts Week the theme, broadly interpreted, is politics. The audience gets to vote on their favorites and during the two brief intermissions there are energetic conversations as the electorate conference over their decisions and mark their ballots. WFIU's George Walker has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Midnight Meat Train On Tuesday, at Best Buy, looking through the new Blu-rays, Peter Noble-Kuchera found Gandhi newly-released and even on sale. What better way to open up the discussion than by Sir Dickie's pedantic history lesson? But then he remembered: this was the week that "The Midnight Meat Train" finally arrives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Student Recital Journal: Liana Gourdjia The preparations for a student a recital are usually a closed-door sort of activity for musicians, but WFIU's Annie Corrigan was invited to take a special glimpse into one student's journey... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bloomington Playwrights Project: 90 Minutes, 30 Plays The Bloomington Playwrights Project's annual festival of thirty, three minute plays, this year is keyed to Bloomington and IU's Arts Week with politics as the theme. Co-producer Holly Holbrook talks with WFIU's George Walker about putting it together. And director and playwright April Smallwood discusses her own work and how important theatre is for her. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jazz Faculty Revives West Baden Springs Concerts This weekend the Jacobs School of Music Jazz Faculty will perform in a legendary setting--the West Baden Springs Hotel. WFIU's David Brent Johnson spoke with bassist Jeremy Allen about the upcoming performance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Sanders’ Conservationist Manifesto Bloomington-based author and Indiana University Professor Scott Russell Sanders speaks with WFIU's Yaël Ksander about his new book to be published by the Indiana University Press in April 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Theatre of the People: Ladies of Lust Theatre of the People’s latest double feature twofer is called “Ladies of Lust.” The Ladies are Oscar Wilde’s Salome and August Strindberg’s Miss Julie. Company co-founder Hannah Moss directs “Salome.” The surprise of the production for me was just how funny “Salome” is. Yes, Suzie Zimmerman does dance sexily and she does gruesomely kiss the lips [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Brings In A Ringer for Miss Brodie Saint-Mary-of-the-Wood College theatre director, Sharon Ammen, talks about the benefits of bringing in a professional to star in their production of "The Prime of Jean Brodie." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website William Alwyn: Orchestral Music This week we highlight two recordings of twentieth century orchestral composers, William Alwyn and Miklós Rósza. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coraline WFIU Movie Critic Peter Noble-Kuchera reviews the new animated film from Henry Selick, "Coraline." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pianist Christopher O’Riley Comes to Bloomington Christopher O'Riley comes to Bloomington, IN to play the Ravel Piano Concerto with the Camerata Orchestra conducted by Bill McGlaughlin. Christopher talks about the demands of the Ravel piece and that he once referred to as "Gershwin's Third." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Host of “St. Paul Sunday” Conducts Local Orchestra Bill McGlaughlin, the host of radio's "Saint Paul Sunday," will appear with the Bloomington Camerata Orchestra on February 15th. George Walker talks to him about his duties as guest conductor and composer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Theater of the People: Ladies of Lust (Abridged) Theatre of the People Cofounders David Nosko and Hannah Moss tell George Walker about their companies continued commitment to expanding theatre for performers and the community. And the company's Salome, played by actor Susie Zimmerman, and tells us that she first met this bloody lady au point, in a ballet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Local Singer Wins 2009 Grieg Competition The 2009 Grieg Festival Young Artists Competition was held at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida in January. Baritone Alan Dunbar, a doctoral student at the Jacobs School of Music, was was named Grand Prize Winner of the competition. He told WFIU's David Wood how he was turned on to the Norwegian composer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Street Sounds: Mitch Rice In the first installment of "Street Sounds" our series highlighting local performers Bloomington, Indiana, a conversation with musician Mitch Rice who's long been a part of the city's landscape. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In the Limelight: Lincoln the Hoosier February 12th marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. Museums across the nation are marking the occasion with elaborate exhibitions, many of which stake their own claim on Lincoln's development. Rebecca Cape from the Lilly Library, noted the unique role Indiana played in Lincoln's life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Theatre And Drama: Stop Kiss I always get to the Wells-Metz Theatre a little early because it’s open seating and the set ups inside are always different. Tuesday nights are usually a little thin. But when I got to the theatre for Diana Son’s “Stop Kiss,” the lobby looked like the waiting room of a small air line. A sign [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Love is in the Air at the Terre Haute Symphony Violinist Susie Park will be appearing with the Terre Haute Symphony this Valentine's Day. She talks with George Walker about her career and how she was rejected from violin lessons at the age of two, but started just a year later. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Review: IU Opera Theater’s “Cendrillon” Just in time for Valentine's Day, the IU Opera Theater offers a very pleasant, richly detailed and charmingly staged version of the Cinderella story. It's Jules Massenet's "Cendrillon" and the opera brings back the fairy god mother, the magical coach and the glass slippers that Disney and Rogers and Hammerstein have accustomed us to and that Rossini so callously left out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Antonio Bazzini: Works for Violin and Piano Our classical recording this week features 22 year-old British violinist Chloë Hanslip and pianist Caspar Frantz performing Antonio Bazzini's works for violin and piano. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Revolutionary Road WFIU Movie Critic Peter Noble-Kuchera reviews the movie version of the 1961 novel by Richard Yates. This adaptation stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carrying on the Tradition of the American Songbook Singer Steve Lippia, whose performance in "Ol' Blue Eyes" was a sell-out, returns to Columbus, Indiana for a concert that will include music of Indiana natives Hoagy Carmichael and Cole Porter. George Walker has more on this concert with the Columbus (Indiana) Philharmonic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Directing the Fantasy of “Le Cendrillon” Chuck Hudson is the visiting director for Indiana University Opera Theatre's production of Jules Massenet's take on the Cinderella story, "Le Cendrillon." Chuck is deeply into the mythology of fairy tales informed by the work of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell. At the same time his direction is also very much influenced by such distinctly physical approaches as the mime of Marcel Marceau. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Review: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee For The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the stage of the IU Auditorium has been transformed into a school gym complete with the baskets cranked up to the ceiling and the spellers sitting on a set of those darned uncomfortable bleachers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating Independence with Children’s Music Dr. Brent Gault is the program director of the Indiana University Children's Choir. Members of the IUCC be taking the stage in multiple projects this year, beginning with the IU Opera Theatre's production of Massenet's "Le Cendrillon" this Friday. WFIU's David Wood talked with Dr. Gault about the program's mission. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WFIU Launches New Local Food Podast “Earth Eats” Artworks gives short-shrift to none of the arts, and that goes for those found in the kitchen as well. Earth Eats is the latest production from the studios of WFIU Public Media, and it highlights the best of the local food movement from the heart of south-central Indiana. In this exclusive preview, Hoosier native Chef Daniel Orr whips up a different kind of backyard feast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phoenix Chorale: “Spotless Rose” One of the leading Choral Ensembles in North America is the Phoenix Chorale, an ensemble directed by Charles Bruffy. This week we feature the Phoenix Chorale's Grammy nominated recording of titled "Spotless Rose." A recording which highlights contemporary compositions devoted to the Virgin Mary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pianist Auer Prepares for Chopin Bicentennial The two hundredth anniversary of Chopin's birth doesn't happen until February 22nd of 2010 but IU Jacobs School of Music faculty member Edward Auer is hard at work producing a comprehensive set of recordings. His latest release is Chopin Nocturnes Vol. 1. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Review: Bloomington Playwrights Project’s “Nocturnal Ramon Esquivel's "Nocturnal" at the Bloomington Playwrights Project is a fast moving forty-five minutes of theatre that begins with a high school spray painting prank and ends with each of member of the quartet and the audience shaken by the night's events. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wrestler Some people learn from their mistakes. Some people have to have life pound its lessons into them. And some people get pounded and keep doing it anyway. We are accustomed to saying of this kind of person that he is self-destructive, or even that he has a death drive. But I wonder: do we say this out of an unacknowledged jealousy? As a hedge, to reassure ourselves that though we never reached those heights, our more ordinary lives are superior? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website William Irvine: “The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy” Stoicism has made its impact through the centuries. However, according to a new book by philosopher William B. Irvine, Stoicism has much to offer twenty-first century seekers of tranquility. And it’s not all seriousness. WFIU’s Adam Schwartz has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stoic Joy, Doubt, and The Four Seasons This week on Artworks we talk to philosopher and author William B. Irvine about his new book, A Guide to the Good Life: The Art of Stoic Joy. Peter Noble-Kuchera reviews the Oscar nominated film Doubt.  And Annie Corrigan explores the Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons with violinists Mimi Zweig and Stanley Ritchie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Allure of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" has been a staple of violin and string repertoire since its composition. Many virtuosi have cut their teeth on this charming set of four violin concertos, including Indiana native, Joshua Bell. WFIU's Annie Corrigan has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Complete Piano Sonatas of Vincent Persichetti This week's featured CD is a collection of piano sonatas from 20-century composer and teacher, Vincent Persichetti. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Playwright Ramon Esquivel’s “Nocturnal” Instinct The Bloomington Playwright's Project presents a special world premiere production of a new full-length play developed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Nocturnal by Ramon Esquivel tells the story of four teenagers venture into the night to wage a war of wills. When the dares turn perilous, will anyone have the courage to back down? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside the Swope Art Museum Field trips aren’t the only reason to visit local art museums. They’re for adults, too….really. WFIU’s Yaël Ksander recently visited the Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute, Indiana, where they are trying to stress that point. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brewing a Different Kind of Cafe at Rachael’s In many communities, the local coffee shop has become an outlet for public discourse, interaction, and expression. That was one of the things Rachael Jones counted on when she started work on her downtown Bloomington location. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Texas Horns This week's featured recordings mix Lone Star brass with European sonorities. Performances come from the Horn Sections of the Dallas and Houston Symphonies and violinist Jonathan Crow and pianist Paul Stewart. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Defiance: Deep in the Woods, but not Lost "Defiance," a movie about the Bielski Partisans who organized 1,200 wayward Jews, during the darkest days of WWII, hid them in the woods of Byelorussia, and taught them to fight, has another battle on its hands. It has to beat back our own cynicism and ennui about Holocaust films in general. It does so in lightning feints, like a guerilla warrior. Which is not to say it's a great film; it isn't. But not so fast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Light That is Felt: Songs of Charles Ives Americans, and classical music enthusiasts in general, have a love-hate relationship with Charles Ives. Although much of that is through reputation, it can be a little hard to wrap your brain around his unique sound. If you want to give Ives another shot, then his vocal music might be a good route; such as found [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gran Torino He steps out of the truck. He’s just a little old man, must be what, eighty? And after all, there are three of you, strapping teenage boys, king of this corner in this run-down town, and if you want to have a little fun scaring this Hmong girl, who’s going to stop you, him? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “Nothing But the Best” from Frank Sinatra In 2008, Reprise records released 21 vintage Sinatra tracks - plus a newly completed alternate rendition of "Body and Soul." Creator of WFIU's "Afterglow," Dick Bishop, comments on these unique recordings and Frank's influences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Frank Sinatra, The Anxiety of Performance, Hoosier Homefront 1945 This week on Artworks: Dick Bishop on Frank Sinatra, Voices of Youth on performance anxiety, and David Brent Johnson on 1945 Hoosier Markets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vienna Philharmonic: Holst’s “The Planets” This week's featured CD is a rerelease of a 1962 recording from the Vienna Philharmonic. Maestro Herbert von Karajan leads the ensemble in Gustav Holst's "The Planets" and Richard Strauss's "Don Juan." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Freddie Hubbard Tribute With David Baker Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, who died last week at the age of 70, was one of Indiana’s true jazz giants. On December 30, longtime Hubbard friend and musical colleague David Baker stopped by WFIU’s Just You and Me and offered some remembrances and reflections with WFIU's David Brent Johnson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doubt There’s an extremely interesting film playing in local theaters, but it’s not doing much boxoffice, and it’s already been out for a week. The critics have been lukewarm, in many cases preferring the play on which the film is based. But when is the last time a movie sparked an argument that lasted for two days? That’s one you might want to seriously consider seeing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Line Author and poet, Elsa Marston Harik reads an excerpt from "In Line" from her latest book Santa Claus in Baghdad - And Other Stories about Teens in the Arab World published by Indiana University Press in 2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Songs of Joy & Peace Celebrate the new year with music from Yo-Yo Ma and the Vienna Philharmonic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website McClellan Street, The Day the World Stood Still, In Line This week on Artworks, the story behind a photo journal of Fort Wayne, Indiana in the 1970s and an author who puts young people in contact with the Middle East through her writing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leroy Anderson: Holiday Favorites During this holiday season we have two wonderful, yuletide themed collections for you. The first is from the BBC Concert Orchestra and the second from teh Cambridge Singers, Farnham Youth Choir and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeannette Winterson’s new old Christmas story English author Jeanette Winterson is known for her edgy, experimental novels. But her story “O’Brien’s First Christmas” is a straightforward, heartwarming tale written in a classic style. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monika Herzig’s idea of “Peace on Earth” A new jazz CD is taking a shot at the holiday market this year, and it comes from pianist and Hoosier transplant, Monika Herzig. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O’Brien’s First Christmas, Monikia Herzig’s “Peace on Earth” This week on a special holiday edition of Artworks: We'll hear a new classic yuletide short story, and jazz musician Monika Herzig talks about her Christmas album, "Peace on Earth." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Day the Earth Stood Still I feel compelled to begin this review with full disclosure. I missed some of "The Day The Earth Stood Still," because I was snoring. No, really - sorry, guy on my left. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brown County: The Art Colony Lives Brown County, Indiana has played home to artists for decades, and the tradition continues. In part one of Brown County: Now and Then, Yaël Ksander visits an artist who has taken up residence in one of the colonies’ original studios Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Guitarist Ernesto Bitetti’s ideal sound For the past four decades the Argentine-born guitarist Ernesto Bitetti has performed with many of the world’s most prestigious chamber and symphony orchestras. WFIU’s Adam Schwartz paid him a visit and learned about his teaching philosophy, the purpose behind those killer fingernails, and why, for the time being, he is forbidden to play his guitar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website George Winston: more than New Age George Winston’s 1980s Windham Hill records helped launch what became known as the “New Age” music movement, but the pianist prefers to call his style “rural folk piano.” Winston spoke recently with WFIU’s David Brent Johnson about his musical philosophy and his landmark album December. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Indiana Makes Music: Regional Orchestras In the first installment of her Regional Orchestras series, arts reporter Annie Corrigan talks to two young musicians who are making the rounds in southern and central Indiana’s ensembles. And in part two, conductor Charles Latshaw talks about what it’s like to lead these community fixtures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Contemporary Quilt Art, Treasure Island and Mark Rice This week on Artworks, we hear from a quilter-turned-author who’s shining a light on contemporary quilt art in her book released this year from Indiana University Press. Then Long John Silver himself stops by for a discussion of the Cardinal Stage Company’s “Treasure Island.”  And finally, a conversation Mark Rice, musician and founder of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cardinal Stage Company: Treasure Island The Cardinal Stage Company's family holiday offering is a grippingly staged production of "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson. In past years they've offered "A Year with Frog and Toad" and "Oliver." Suffice to say that "Treasure Island" more than lives up to the high marks that those productions set. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Symphonies of Leopold Mozart and Spotless Rose This week we highlight the Toronto Chamber Orchestra’s recording of the symphonies of Leopold Mozart. Much time is spent with the young Mozart, but the musical talents of the father are given a chance to shine here. And our quick pick is the Grammy nominated recording “Spotless Rose” from the Phoenix Chorale. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Milk It took three men to turn the story of Harvey Milk back around in Hollywood: a hot young writer named Dustin Lance Black, a studiously independent director, Gus Van Sant; and a star with muscle, Sean Penn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bloomington Playwrights Project: Sex Death 2008 Just as the season begins to flirt with cold in earnest and the day starts to get dark long before dinner time, it's time for the Bloomington Playwrights Projects annual late night Sex Death series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cardinal Stage Company: Treasure Island Singer, song writer and actor Tim Grimm talks about playing Long John Silver, one of the most magnetic dark characters of boy’s adventure stories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website George Winston, Early Music in Motion, Regional Orchestras pt. 3 This week on Artworks, we talk with “rural-folk” pianist George Winston about his timeless album “December.” The director and founder of a non-profit focusing on early music talks about their mission. And finally, part three of our Regional Orchestras series brings us to a community member who also plays the part of serious professional musician. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Dept. of Theatre and Drama: Marisol "Marisol" at the Wells-Metz Theatre is Puerto Rican born playwright Jose Rivera's Obie Award winning surreal account of a young Puerto Rican woman's post apocalyptic odyssey in a tidily marshaled production directed by Sabrina Lloyd. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Growing Early Music in Indiana Early music in America has grown considerably over the last several decades, and now one Bloomington organization seeks to educate South-Central Indiana on its importance to music education. WFIU's David Wood spoke with Early Music in Motion founder, Angelique Zuluaga. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unwrap the Joy in Columbus Soloist Cathy Rund, who’ll be singing with her husband Rex Rund and receiving a bit of assistance from their daughter Emma, talks about the upcoming concert and their part in the joy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saxophonist Eugene Rousseau performs with Camerata Saxophone soloist Eugene Rousseau talks about his instrument, the concerto by Henry Tomasi that he’ll be playing with the Bloomington Camerata Orchestra on Sunday, December 07, 2008 and the particular affection that the French have for the sound of the saxophone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Regional Orchestras Part 3: Catherine Marchese Indiana is home to a myriad of local orchestras which draw on the talents of the communities in which they reside.In the final installment of our Regional Orchestras series Annie Corrigan talks with community member Catherine Marcese, who's one serious musician. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Terre Haute Symphony: Holiday Celebration Conductor and Artistic Director David Bowden describes the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra’s Holiday Celebration which will feature vocalist Kate Hamilton. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elliot O’Glasser: balancing the Nutcracker Dancer Elliot O’Glasser talks about what brought him to IU, his evolving portrayal of Herr Drosslemeyer in the Nutcracker and offers a tip for balancing a demanding classload with a heavy practice and performance schedule. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lucy Robinson and Amy Karr: Two Crafty Ladies Lucy Robinson and Amy Karr aren’t your typical crafters. Robinson is a custom handkerchief embroiderer, and Karr is a seamstress who makes custom underwear. WFIU’s Josephine McRobbie talked to both crafters to find out how they ended up doing what they’re doing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brown County Now and Then pt. 2, Unwrap the Joy, Slocum Puzzle Room This week on Artworks, part two of a look at life in Brown County, Indiana “The Art Colony of the Midwest.” We’ll also hear from a performer taking part in the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic’s annual holiday show. And a tour of the Lily Library’s newest addition, the Slocum mechanical puzzle collection. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Role Models Danny, played by Paul Rudd, in the comedy "Role Models," wears sarcasm like a tailored hair shirt. As someone will say of him later: "You hate yourself, but you still think you're better than everyone else." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ernesto Bitetti, Santaland Diaries, Gettin’ Crafty This week on Artworks, a conversation with master guitarist, Ernesto Bitetti. We’ll also hear from the star of the one “elf” show, the Santaland Diaries. And two local crafters are “getting personal” with their wares. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santaland Diaries Actor John Armstrong discusses bringing David Sedaris’s short memoir of his brief but painful career as a department store elf to the stage in the Cardinal Stage Company’s production at the John Waldron Arts Center 11/21-12/07/08. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IU Theatre and Drama: Hamlet For the first time is more than fifty years, IU�s Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center hosts Shakespeare�s Hamlet.� The production with its attention to individual characters and performance details clearly owes a lot to director Murray McGibbon. He�s also a key figure in the adaptation of the text. 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