Why My Poems Arrive Wearing Black Gloves
The Poets Weave | By Romayne Rubinas Dorsey - July 21, 2024
Karen Rigby reads "Why My Poems Arrive Wearing Black Gloves" and "Black Roses."
Give Now »
Karen Rigby reads "Why My Poems Arrive Wearing Black Gloves" and "Black Roses."
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.”
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.
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.
New Buskirk Chumley Theater Executive Director talks plans for the BCT, career trajectory
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
Colleen Wells reads "Watching" and "Summertime and the Livin’ is Almost Easy."
In the wake of the pandemic, a deeper appreciation and a broadened perspective. Visits from Pops Staples, Marcel Proust, and Burt Lancaster.
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.
Submit answers for tonight's game. Try bonus trivia challenges and get helpful hints. Fight the power!
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.
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.
Michael Luis Dauro reads selections from his poem "Woman With No Name."
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."
The past has too many witnesses to establish any certainty as to what actually happened.
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.
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.
No submissions this week while our staff is away. Please play along at home!
Stories from around Indiana...coming to you from the Wabash and Erie Canal Park in Carroll County.
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.
Barb Schwegman reads "Playing Jacks," "Jesus Lucia," "Leaving El Salvador," and "For Walter and Scott."