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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.”
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.
A walk in the woods with botanist Ellen Jacquart about 25 years in the future. And a conversation with the director of the new documentary, Major Taylor: Champion of the Race.
A new book about African ceramics across the continent, with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, especially Nigeria and Cameroon
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This week on Harmonia, join us on a bohemian escapade of sorts, as we explore baroque music composed by violinist Philipp Jakob Rittler and trumpet virtuoso Pavel Josef Vejvanovský. Plus, festive Baroque music for trumpets and strings on our featured recording by Ars Antiqua Austria. Join us!
Eric Rensberger reads "Reading," "A Deity," and "Historical Imagination."
Jazz standards like “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” and “A Sunday Kind of Love” are not just for singers like Frank Sinatra. This week, we’ll hear the Great American Songbook sung by The Flamingos, The Platters, and other doo wop groups from the 1950s.
Yes, they depart for warmer climates in the winter. But their intention is always to return.
This week, a profile of the alien who roams downtown Bloomington, a werewolf, two witches, and the childhood that led to an article about the secret government facility under Bloomington's water treatment plant. Plus, a discussion about how shapeshifters help us think about gender.
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From epic tales of Charlemagne’s knights to sonnets drenched in lovers’ tears, the act of singing poetry is central to many early music traditions, both improvised and on the page. This week on Harmonia, we’ll hear musical manifestations of poetry ranging from Antiquity to the seventeenth century. Join us!
Erica Anderson-Senter reads "Qualifications for a Lover," "This is How a Poet Gets Over Heartbreak," and "To the Red-Bellied Woodpecker in my Neighborhood."
This week on Afterglow, we take a listen to the work of jazz vocalist Dakota Staton, famous for her work on Capitol Records in the 1950s, including her rendition of the song “The Late, Late Show.”
