Stabat Mater and Marian Cantatas
Marian music by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (Harmonia Mundi) and George Frideric Handel (Archiv Produktion).
Oct 26, 2010•6 min
Focus on Flowers
Focus on Flowers is a weekly podcast and public radio program about flower gardening hosted by master gardener Moya Andews.
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Witchcraft and Madness in Restoration England
A look at witches and insanity in songs and scenes from late 17th-century English stage works, violinist Ingrid Matthews and harpsichordist Byron Schenkman perform live in recital from Seattle, and Esterházy Machine explores Haydn’s trios for the baryton.
Oct 25, 2010•59 min
Eileen Myles Reads "Prose About Poetry" From Her Upcoming Novel
Eileen Myles reads her poems "Your Name," "Snowflake," and "DH," then shares some “prose about poetry” from her upcoming novel.
Oct 24, 2010•6 min
Television For Plants
Experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats stated that since plants are rooted and cannot travel he thought that they would like to see videos of other locations.
Oct 21, 2010•2 min
Vivaldi Concerto Discovered Where?
Musicologist Andrew Woolley discovered a flute concerto by Antonio Vivaldi at the National Archives of Scotland.
Oct 20, 2010•6 min
Jordi Savall and Music for a French King
Music for the orchestras of Louis XIII and XIV, as well as works from the time of Louis XV.
Oct 19, 2010•7 min
Alice Curry, Executive Director Of The Columbus Philharmonic
Annie Corrigan hosts this interview with Alice Curry, executive director of the Columbus Philharmonic, who plays selections of her favorite music.
Oct 18, 2010•45 min
From T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"
On this edition of The Poets Weave, "Aunt Helen," "Hysteria", and an excerpt from "The Waste Land."
Oct 17, 2010•5 min
Telemann: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra And Musica Antiqua Cologne
The complete Musique de Table with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (Harmonia Mundi) and string concertos with Musica Antiqua Cologne (Archiv Produktion).
Oct 15, 2010•5 min
A Euphorbia Cultivar Named "Cherry Cobbler"
Last Spring, I received a lovely gift from my friend Marie Louise. It was a euphorbia cultivar named ‘Cherry Cobbler’.
Oct 14, 2010•2 min
The Tudor Choir in Seattle
On Harmonia, the Tudor Choir performs live on the Early Music Guild's International Series, the Hilliard Ensemble interprets the music of Perotin, and Ensemble Sarband re-imagines Bach in the Arabian Passion.
Oct 11, 2010•59 min
More prose poems by Russell Edson
Russell Edson is called the father of the prose poem in America.
Oct 10, 2010•5 min
Borrowed Views: Neighbors' Gardens Frame Plantings In One's Own
Look at your autumn garden and your borrowed views and maybe add a few echoes of your neighbor’s colorful specimens in your own plantings next spring.
Oct 07, 2010•2 min
Conductor Leonard Slatkin
Annie Corrigan hosts this interview with Leonard Slatkin, the Arthur R. Metz Foundation Conductor at IU’s Jacobs School of Music.
Oct 04, 2010•44 min
Piffaro and the English Renaissance
Harmonia looks at Piffaro's recording "Waytes," Ensemble Instrumenta Musica performs 17th-century Venetian wind music, and Florilegium continues its exploration of the Bolivian Baroque.
Oct 04, 2010•59 min
"The Perfect Faceless Fish" by Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles is a New York City-based poet and author who has performed and published her work widely since 1974.
Oct 03, 2010•5 min
"Survivor Plants" Remain Elegant Even In Hot, Dry Weather
Natives with long tap roots like the bright orange butterfly weed were completely unfazed by the heat, as were shrubs like crepe myrtles and caryopteris.
Sep 30, 2010•2 min
Poet, Author, And Essayist Eileen Myles
Shana Ritter hosts this interview with poet Eileen Myles. The program includes Myles reading several of her poems.
Sep 27, 2010•52 min
Morning at the Window - early poetry of T.S. Eliot
Early poetry T.S. Eliot, including the poem "Morning at the Window," "Cousin Nancy," and "Preludes."
Sep 26, 2010•5 min
Perennial Mums
To grow mums as perennials here in the Midwest, it is best to buy small plants in the spring and pinch them back in the summer for more blooms in the fall.
Sep 23, 2010•2 min
Jazzman Pharez Whitted
David Brent Johnson hosts this interview with jazz trumpeter Pharez Whitted.
Sep 20, 2010•45 min
The Transfigurations (and more) by Russell Edson
Born in Connecticut in 1935, poet, playwright, and visual artist, Russell Edson is the father of the prose poem in America.
Sep 19, 2010•5 min
Verbascum (Mullein) Offers An Imposing Architectural Presence
Most species in the Verbascum genus have gray, woolly leaves born in a rosette at the base of the plant and erect bloom stalks covered in very small flowers. There are about 360 species, and the majority is biennials. The common name is mullein, and it likes full sun and well drained, but not rich, soil.
Sep 16, 2010•2 min
Composer Steve Reich at ISU's Contemporary Music Festival
Cary Boyce conducts an interview with composer Steve Reich at the Indiana State University in Terre Haute. Program includes a Q&A session with the audience.
Sep 14, 2010•27 min
Music of Baroque Mexico: Fernandes, Padilla, and Murcia
Harmonia devotes itself to the baroque music of Mexico, including works by Gaspar Fernandes and Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, a brief look at the Jesús Sánchez Garza Collection of Spanish colonial manuscripts, and Lee Santana leads Ensamble Continuo in an unusual take on the guitar music of Santiago de Murcia.
Sep 13, 2010•59 min
"The Mother of the Lunatics" by Sarah Ruhlen
Sarah Ruhlen reads "Because Man Cannot Help Love a Lode Stone," "The Mother of the Lunatics," "Building the Tower of Babel," and "I Hid Butterflies for Him."
Sep 12, 2010•5 min
Writer and Tibetan Activist Canyon Sam
Shana Ritter hosts this interview with San Francisco-based writer and performance artist Canyon Sam.
Sep 07, 2010•46 min
New Music/Early Music: The New Brandenburgs, pt. 1
Harmonia begins an exploration the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s commissions inspired by the Brandenburg Concertos of J.S. Bach, a look at prominent countertenors from the 1990s, and Rolf Lislevand performs music of the Italian Renaissance on the featured recording “Diminuito.”
Sep 06, 2010•59 min
"Oolitic" by Matt Colglazier
Colglazier reads "Oolitic," "Jewel," "The Congressman," "Myra," and more on this extended web edition of The Poets Weave.
Sep 05, 2010•6 min
Flowers for the Virgin Mary
Within the Roman Catholic Church properties worldwide, there are many gardens dedicated to the mother of Jesus. Many are rose gardens, but others also contain many different types of lilies, marguerites, marigolds, rosemary, virgin’s bower clematis, and many other flowers that are associated with Mary, too.
Sep 02, 2010•2 min
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