Artworks
shows Archive
May 12, 2009
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Mei Zhong, What Gets You Jazzed?, IU Summer Music Festival
This week on Artworks, an Indiana professor of music who is trying to broaden the art song literature with music from her homeland of China. We’ll recap April’s Jazz Appreciation month survey “What gets you jazzed?” And a preview of the upcoming 2009 IU Summer Music Festival.
May 5, 2009
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Osamu James Nakagawa, “Find a Fable, Tell a Tale”, The Hold Steady
This week on Artworks, WFIU’s Yaël Ksander speaks with Associate Professor of Fine Arts Osamu James Nakagawa who was recently named a Guggenheim Fellowl. She’ll talk with him about his latest project, capturing images of the “suicide cliff” in Okinawa Japan. Also on the program, WFIU’s Adam Schwartz explores an installation at the Mather’s Museum […]
April 28, 2009
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Johnny Cash, “Doubt”, Indiana University All-Campus Orchestra
This week on Artworks, we’ll hear how the paradox of singer-songwriter Johnny Cash goes much, much farther than “A Boy Named Sue.” Also on the program, It’s drama and intrigue at a 1960’s Catholic school, when the Cardinal Stage Company brings the Pulitzer prize-winning Doubt to Bloomington, Indiana. Then, monsters, aliens and the possible annihilation […]
April 21, 2009
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Todd Rundgren, “Call Me Shakespeare”, Bloomington Pipes and Drums
This week on Artworks, WFIU’s Yaël Ksander speaks with music industry maverick Todd Rundgren during his recent visit to DePauw University. Two cast members stop by to tell WFIU’s George Walker about their part in this weekends “Call Me Shakepeare” at Edgewood High School. And Bloomington Fire Department Battalian Chief Rob Stumpf tells WFIU’s David […]
April 6, 2009
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Barbie Art, Timothy Noble, Canadian Brass
This week on Artworks, WFIU’s Yaël Ksander looks back at 50 years of Barbie with two artists who have incorporated the plastic icon into their work. Baritone Timothy Noble speaks to WFIU’s George Walker about his upcoming performance in the Jacobs School’s “The Most Happy Fella.” And explore the 39 years of the Canadian Brass […]
March 30, 2009
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Tim Hardy, The Drowsy Chaparone, The Church Organ
This week on Artworks, veteran stage and screen actor Tim Hardy talks to WFIU’S Adam Schwartz about his recent two-week residency at IUPUI. WFIU’s George Walker discusses the Jacobs School’s upcoming performance of Frank Loesser’s “Most Happy Fella” with professor Timothy Noble. And in part three of our “Church Musicians” series, WFIU’s Annie Corrigan gets up close and personal with world of church organs from organist, composer and professor, Dr. Edwin Penhorwood.
