This week on Artworks:
Bloomington-based singer songwriter Krista Detor. Stops by the WFIU studios to talk about what motivates her to keep writing songs even when it starts to feel like everything has already been said.
Also on the program,
Giant Brains take over the streets of Bloomington,
And rain or shine, the Bloomington Quarry Morris Dancers keep a tradition from the Old Country alive in the New World.
The Indianapolis Opera wraps up its 2011-2012 season with a tale of obsession and redemption in Gounod’s “Faust.”
And the Bloomington Campus of IU will grow exactly one pipe organ larger in the next year. We’ll hear how this amazing instrument and its future home in Alumni Hall.
Stories On This Episode
Krista Detor: Chasing Down Art
By Annie Corrigan - May 1, 2012
Krista Detor talks about what comes first, words or melody, how she teaches songwriting and if she feels like all things in music have already been done.
IU’s Third C.B. Fisk Organ To Be Installed In Alumni Hall
By David Wood - May 2, 2012
The Fisk Opus 91 will make its debut sometime in 2013.
There’s The Devil To Pay In Gounod’s ‘Faust’
By George Walker - May 3, 2012
"It’s such a dark story and I love the fact that there’s so much energy in this production," Gran Wilson
Dancers Wake Up The Earth For Spring
By Jennifer Basak - May 5, 2011
The Bloomington Quarry Morris Dancers are the only group of their kind in Indiana.