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Sarah Vaughan 1946

In the 1940s a young jazz singer with a four-octave range and bebop chops burst onto the big-band scene with Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine before going on to establish herself as a solo star.

Whiteboard notes from class on Jad Abumrad

A seminar on the Indiana University campus is studying the work of Jad Abumrad. Inner States producer Alex Chambers caught a bit of their discussion.

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Andrea Mantegna, The Resurrection of Christ, c. 1492.

Join us for an Easter celebration! We’ll hear how composers from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods created new music from ancient Gregorian chants. We’ll explore vocal and instrumental settings of the Easter tunes “Victimae paschali laudes” and “Christus resurgens.”

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Michael Luis Dauro reads selections from the "Woman With No Name."

Spring is here, and so this week on Afterglow, I’ll be saluting the arrival of fairer weather with a few Songs of the Season, like “April In Paris,” “It Might As Well Be Spring,” and more.

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This time out, songs and stories that span the spectrum.

Jad Abumrad

Radiolab founder Jad Abumrad has been interviewing interviewers lately: journalists, therapists, conflict mediators, salespeople. We talk about what it takes to have a meaningful conversation.

Episode 619

From the La Porte County Historical Society Museum: learn about the history of firefighting at the Fort Wayne Firefighters Museum, ride the rails at the Monon Connection Train Museum, and step back in maritime at Michigan City's Old Lighthouse Museum.

We are not running a scoreboard tonight. Instead, as we kick off our Spring fund drive, consider supporting Ether Game with a financial gift. Thank you!

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Icarus, blue supergiant

Hiromi Yoshida reads "Icarus Superstar," "Icarus Ekphrasis," and "Icarus | Epicanthus."

Something Cool Mono

In the early 1950s, singer June Christy broke away from Stan Kenton’s Orchestra to record solo, helping to establish the “vocal cool” style of jazz singing. This week, we’ll explore some of those early solo recordings she made for Capitol Records.

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Their presence on earth reveals kindness in the human touch.

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David Brent Johnson remembers Indiana writer Dan Wakefield.

Ryder Founder Peter LoPilato

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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From the The Howard Psalter and Hours, c.1310, (British Library, Arundel MS 83 II, f.14).

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.

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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 "After Glow"

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.

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A celebration of rock 'n' roll in an emerging era of electric guitars, long-playing records, studio wizardry, and social change.

Fire! An American Burning

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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Lady Fortuna spinning her wheel from Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium

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!

Picking wildflowers, sun low in sky

Shana Ritter reads "Poems from the other side," "A sad dusk," and "Wildflowers."

Judy Garland 1946

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

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