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PorchLight | By Tom Roznowski - March 15, 2024
Their presence on earth reveals kindness in the human touch.
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Their presence on earth reveals kindness in the human touch.
David Brent Johnson remembers Indiana writer Dan Wakefield.
On this week’s Inner States, producer Violet Baron takes us to rural southern Indiana, where Danny Cain still makes fishing nets by hand. Then we listen to a 2016 interview with Peter LoPilato, who founded the Ryder Magazine and Film Series. He passed away on March 7.
A Hoosier Painter, Electric Works Redevelopment, Pinball, and an espresso machine maker
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As cultural changes gained momentum in the 1960s, a generation of women artists made their way through a jazz world that had long been resistant to their aims.
We're exploring how Renaissance musicians captured the sounds of animals in their music as we take a trip through a musical zoo. Along the way, we’ll hear the beautiful calls of the Nightingale, see the mighty crocodile, and hear a choir of all the animals singing together.
Austin Davis reads from his book Compulsive Swim: "Layla and Her Kids" and "Act 3 poem VI," plus a new poem "healing is lonely."
Carmen McRae was one of the most respected jazz singers in the business for four decades. This week, we’ll explore her early recordings for the Decca label in the 1950s.
A celebration of rock 'n' roll in an emerging era of electric guitars, long-playing records, studio wizardry, and social change.
This week, Inner States presents Episode 3 of Fire!: An American Burning. Inferno at Whiting is about the 1955 Whiting Refinery fire in Whiting, Indiana. It’s also about how oil – and fire - are at the heart of the modern world.
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For hundreds of years, the goddess Fortune and her wheel have offered us a way to comprehend the unpredictability of life. This week on Harmonia, we’ll look back to the fourteenth century and explore the appearances of Fortune in music as people try to make sense of famine, plague, political and religious strife. Join us!
Shana Ritter reads "Poems from the other side," "A sad dusk," and "Wildflowers."
This week, we celebrate singer and film star Judy Garland. We’ll chronicle her music career and feature many of her recordings from the 1940s to the 1960s
In honor of the mid-'60s TV series, we stack a few classic 45s on the spindle and remember.
Pianist Hazel Scott was a prodigy who rose to fame in the 1940s, swinging classical compositions, appearing in Hollywood movies, and becoming the first African-American to host a TV show.
Comedian Mohanad Elshieky explains the difference between comedy and therapy, and novelist Tess Gunty tells us why she set her National Book Award winning novel in Indiana.
IU Jacobs School of Music Opera Theater presents the timeless tragedy of one of Russian literature's "superfluous men."
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“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” We’ll explore settings of the words of King David – psalms, laments, and music for his instrument—the harp. Our featured release is Sansara: Cloths of Heaven…on Harmonia.
Josh Brewer reads "When I place talismans," “Dying Mantis,” “This Week in Northern Ireland,” and “The Bakeries of Warsaw.”
We pay tribute to the late singer, activist and humanitarian Harry Belafonte. We’ll explore his expansive recording career, which encompassed folk, calypso, jazz, blues and more.
The available bounty of the natural and the creative can sustain you season by season.
In 1952 bassist Charles Mingus and drummer Max Roach formed their own record company, in an attempt to assert creative and entrepreneurial control over their music.
It's not the documentary, but the connections you help people make along the way.
A man's race to the finish line, a presidential home, Evansville African American Museum.