The Poets Weave | By Romayne Rubinas Dorsey - July 21, 2024
Karen Rigby reads "Why My Poems Arrive Wearing Black Gloves" and "Black Roses."
Afterglow | By Mark Chilla - July 19, 2024
Put on your dancing shoes as we cut a rug with the American Songbook. On this episode, we look at jazz standards meant for dancing, including “I Could Have Danced All Night” and “Cheek To Cheek.”
PorchLight | By Tom Roznowski - July 19, 2024
One of the most difficult adjustments during this past year? Limiting and navigating personal contact. There is clearly more acceptance for this than there is understanding.
Ether Game | By Chris Burrus - July 16, 2024
Our staff are away this week. We will not be running a live scoreboard tonight. Please play from home and check your answers with our playlist.
Arts & Culture | By Dom Heyob - July 16, 2024
New Buskirk Chumley Theater Executive Director talks plans for the BCT, career trajectory
Night Lights | By David Johnson - July 15, 2024
We’ll hear some of the artists such as Cassandra Wilson, Maria Schneider, Renee Rosnes, and Diana Krall who rose to prominence during the decade, as well as a trio of veterans who enjoyed a late-career renaissance, including Abbey Lincoln, Shirley Horn, and Betty Carter.
Harmonia | By Sarah Huebsch Schilling - July 15, 2024
Busy bees buzz as they journey from flower to flower and back to the hive. But this week on Harmonia, bees aren’t all that’s a buzz—we’ll hear music featuring the crumhorn. Plus, our featured release is Handel Concerti Grossi, Op. 3 performed by Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.
The Poets Weave | By Romayne Rubinas Dorsey - July 14, 2024
Daniel Lassell reads "How to Pet a Llama," "Mom Woke to a Coyote Staring in Her Window,""Taking in the Stray," "The Llama Named James and John Sons of Thunder," and "An Account of a Llama’s Death."
Afterglow | By Mark Chilla - July 12, 2024
This week on Afterglow, we turn to the music of Paris, and hear songs written "dans la mode française" performed by Madeleine Peyroux, Dean Martin, Blossom Dearie, and more.
PorchLight | By Tom Roznowski - July 12, 2024
There are no guarantees in life. But when there are no guarantees of life and that awareness is shared globally and simultaneously, it does tend to get your attention. Being a survivor may seem with a simple choice, but with it comes the challenge of facing what you’re now left with.
Harmonia | By Devon Nelson - July 8, 2024
This hour, music associated with the Duarte family, patrons of music and the arts through several generations from the 13th through the 17th centuries in Portugal, the Netherlands, Italy, and England, including seventeenth-century musician and composer Leonora Duarte.
The Poets Weave | By Romayne Rubinas Dorsey - July 7, 2024
Colleen Wells reads "Watching" and "Summertime and the Livin’ is Almost Easy."
PorchLight | By Tom Roznowski - July 5, 2024
In the wake of the pandemic, a deeper appreciation and a broadened perspective. Visits from Pops Staples, Marcel Proust, and Burt Lancaster.
Arts & Culture | By Travis Whaley - July 5, 2024
An installment of the series IUMusicArchive, a collaboration between the IU Jacobs School of Music and WFIU made possible through the support of the Wennerstrom-Phillips Fund for Classical Music.
Ether Game | By Chris Burrus - July 2, 2024
Submit answers for tonight's game. Try bonus trivia challenges and get helpful hints. Fight the power!
Night Lights | By David Johnson - July 1, 2024
Celebrate America’s Independence Day with a legacy of swing from Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams, Glenn Miller, Machito, and other iconic American artists and ensembles.
Harmonia | By Sarah Huebsch Schilling - July 1, 2024
The construction of La Plata Cathedral, now known as the Metropolitan Cathedral of Sucre in Bolivia, began in 1559. This week on Harmonia, we’ll hear music written for this sparkling venue, with its white marble lit up by the stained glass windows. Plus, our featured release is Tommaso Giordani: Six Duos for Two Cellos.
The Poets Weave | By Romayne Rubinas Dorsey - June 30, 2024
Michael Luis Dauro reads selections from his poem "Woman With No Name."
Afterglow | By Mark Chilla - June 28, 2024
We’re living life among the jet set this week on Afterglow, as we explore songs about traveling from the Great American Songbook, including “Come Fly With Me,” “Travelin’ Light,” and "It's Nice to Go Trav'ling."
PorchLight | By Tom Roznowski - June 28, 2024
The past has too many witnesses to establish any certainty as to what actually happened.
Inner States | By Alex Chambers - June 28, 2024
A walk among memorials and public art pieces in the fall of 2021. We talk with creators, participants, and passers-by about the meaning of public art, about Native presence in a state named for Indians, about immigration, Christopher Columbus, Columbus, Indiana, who we choose to remember, and how.
Night Lights | By David Johnson - June 27, 2024
Steve Allen is remembered today as the founder of “The Tonight Show” and a lasting influence on late-night television. But he was also an important advocate for jazz in the 1950s.
Ether Game | By Chris Burrus - June 25, 2024
No submissions this week while our staff is away. Please play along at home!
Journey Indiana | By Chris Burrus - June 25, 2024
Stories from around Indiana...coming to you from the Wabash and Erie Canal Park in Carroll County.
Harmonia | By Travis Whaley - June 24, 2024
This hour on Harmonia, we explore the madrigals of Monteverdi from his earliest collections in the 1590s to his innovative “Madrigals of War and Love” – over 40 years of madrigals! Along the way we will experience the extremes of human emotions, from the heights of joy to the depths of despair.
The Poets Weave | By Romayne Rubinas Dorsey - June 23, 2024
Barb Schwegman reads "Playing Jacks," "Jesus Lucia," "Leaving El Salvador," and "For Walter and Scott."
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