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Focus on Flowers

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Focus on Flowers is a weekly podcast and public radio program about flower gardening hosted by master gardener Moya Andews.

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Episodes

Stabat Mater and Marian Cantatas

Marian music by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (Harmonia Mundi) and George Frideric Handel (Archiv Produktion).

Oct 26, 20106 min

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, 201059 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, 20102 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, 201059 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, 201044 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, 201059 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, 20102 min

Jazzman Pharez Whitted

David Brent Johnson hosts this interview with jazz trumpeter Pharez Whitted.

Sep 20, 201045 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, 20102 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, 201059 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, 20105 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, 201059 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, 20106 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, 20102 min
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