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.
Play can seem disconnected from the serious world of politics and society. Artist and poet clay scofield reminds us how they’re connected, by suggesting that we whisper to oranges.
This hour on Harmonia, we take a journey across Europe to explore the many types of dances that inspired music from the 16th to 18th centuries. Along the way, we’ll hear stately pavanes, lilting allemandes, and playful polonaises.
The Poets Weave | By Romayne Rubinas Dorsey - March 30, 2025
As a tribute to Jenny Kander, we're reaching back to 2007 for an episode of Jenny reading her own work. She read "Dream," "Great Aunt," "Eve of Grown Daughter's Birthday," "Ice Late February," "Tattoo," and "Dream On."
