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Kathleen McLean, ‘Last Night Of Ballyhoo’, Carmen Benavente

This week on Artworks, bassoonist Kathleen McLean, author Carmen Benavente, and Brown County Playhouse's "Last Night of Ballyhoo."

This week on Artworks,Indiana University associate bassoon professor Kathleen McLean. We’ll get to hear some of the gloomy yet soulful orchestral solos for which the bassoon is known.

Then George Walker speaks with two of the actors in the Brown County Playhouse’s final production of the summer, Alfred Uhry’s “Last Night of Ballyhoo.”

And we’ll hear from the author of a new book that sheds light on a time when needlepoint, embroidery and cross-stitch took on a more important role in society.

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