In Jewish Theatre of Bloomington’s latest production, 4000 Miles, a young man shows up at his grandmother’s apartment in Greenwich Village after a tragedy, and they have to figure each other out.
Poet janan alexandra’s book come from came out on April 28. On the latest Inner States, we hear some of her poems, and talk about what it means to be from a place you don’t live and how to think about home apart from nations and states.
Join us as we delve into the wealth of music based on mythological stories and legendary figures, from the earliest Italian operatic tragedies to playful cantatas and madrigals.
In 1950 bandleader Duke Ellington started his own record label that recorded numerous small-group dates often led by Ellington cohort Billy Strayhorn, featuring outstanding Ellington-orbit musicians such as saxophonist Johnny Hodges, singer Al Hibbler, and bassist Oscar Pettiford.
This hour, we're celebrating the 400th anniversary of Samuel Scheidt’s Tabulatura Nova, a pivotal collection of organ music that contained many different keyboard genres and a new type of notation for organists. We’ll explore its legacy and its influence on both Baroque and later musicians.
When’s the right time to open a refugee resettlement office? Ideally, sometime before the refugees start arriving. Otherwise the car seats really start to pile up at the post office. Erin Aquino tells us about starting the Bloomington office of Exodus Refugee, and how it’s going now that refugee resettlement has been indefinitely suspended.
In 1957 singer Ella Fitzgerald recorded close to one hundred tracks as her career continued to soar in the wake of signing with Norman Granz’s Verve label.
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.”
Arts & Culture | By Annika Harshbarger - April 8, 2025
Julia Fegelman started tattooing on the floor of her Teter dorm room. Now she has a private studio, a aesthetic based on found nature objects, and a full list of bookings.
Sometimes we need a good cry. Music can provide a space for mourning and lament for both personal sadness and religious observation. This week on Harmonia, we’ll be exploring musical settings of the Book of Lamentations. We’ll hear uses of this text in traditions from Tisha b’Av to Tenebrae. Join us.
