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Joseph Noel Paton's painting The Fairy Raid Carrying Off a Changeling on Midsummer Eve, 1867

William Landau reads "Monomyth," "Faerie Fruit," "" and "To Be a F."

happy jump

We’re keeping on the sunny side of the street this week, as we explore some uplifting tunes like “Get Happy,” “I Want To Be Happy,” and “Put On A Happy Face.”

Waco Dance Pavilion

Dancing causes something unpredictable to happen in how you look and how you feel. Thankfully, you can’t experience both of these simultaneously.

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“Musick will give our hardest Labours Ease; The Hautboy charms in War, the Flute in Pease. Where Love or Honour calls, these Sounds inspire; This charms with Love, That Courage sets on fire.” This hour on Harmonia, we explore what Playford describes as an honorable and courageous instrument: the oboe.

Compass sitting on rock.

Angela Lim reads "Without Compass," "COMPULSORY," "I find myself jealous of ghosts" and "Tell the Space Enthusiast 'No, Thank You'."

Compass sitting on rock.

We look at the jazz standards of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, including "Somewhere," "I Feel Pretty," and "Send In The Clowns."

Compass sitting on rock.

Face-to-face human interaction is hard to replace.

lalo schifrin on an album cover

Lalo Schifrin is best known for his “Mission: Impossible” theme and numerous other film scores, but the pianist and composer first emerged from mid-20th century Argentina as a jazz artist, working with Dizzy Gillespie and recording under his own name as well.

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Section of a woodcut showing Pythagoras with bells in Pythagorean tuning. From Theorica musicae by Franchino Gaffurio, 1492

We’re hitting all the right notes—as we explore the world of tuning systems from Pythagorean to the first temperaments of the Renaissance, which allowed musicians to go beyond the limitations of a single mode. Plus, our featured recording is A Monk’s Life by the Brabant Ensemble.

Woman in Victorian dress walks away surrounded by crows and fog.

Rosemarie Wurth-Grice reads "Vestigial," "One for Sorrow," "How is it Possible?," "Hibernation," and "Winter Rain."

a postcard of deming park terra haute indiana

Among their many other benefits to humanity is the fact that over the centuries trees have been used to create countless theater stages and musical instruments.

Mingus Changes Two

The latest entry in Night Lights' ongoing series of jazz elegies, with an emphasis this time on recordings from the 1970s and 80s by Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Woody Shaw, Pat Metheny and others.

Lynda Barry

Cartoonist and teacher Lynda Barry will be this year's Granfalloon keynote speaker. Yaël Ksander spoke with her in advance of her visit.

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Nina Boals

Nina Boals reads "Somewhere in Illinois," "The Laughter," And "Litany for Spring."

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Ours is a diverse culture and divided country in many ways, but there is one characteristic that securely unites most all of us as Americans. We have way too much stuff.

Book about the Stars of Jazz TV show

Stars Of Jazz was an Emmy-winning weekly late-1950s jazz TV show that featured many of the era’s top jazz artists and used innovative techniques to help bring the music to a wider audience.

Alex Chambers and Amy Oelsner in conversation

Three artists and activists to talk about moments of change in their lives in front of a live audience at the Indiana University Grunwald Gallery of Art, part of Action + Agency: Storytelling + Filmmaking, a collaborative art-making event on March 6, 2025.

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Paolo Veronese's painting  Unfaithfulness

Johannes Ockeghem’s rondeau “D’ung aultre amer,” well known in its own time, found its way into the work of lots of other composers, including Tinctoris and Agricola, but especially including Josquin des Prez, who wrote two motets and an entire mass based on the song. This week on Harmonia, join us as we get acquainted with the song and its progeny!

Violets by Pauline Powell Burns, c. 1890

As a tribute to Jenny Kander, we're reaching back to 2008 for an episode of Jenny reading her own work. She reads from her "Maternal" series: "Late Insight," "Mother's Sister, Dirrie," "The Misfit," and "Painted Screen."

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