Focus on Flowers

Author Frank Bill 26.02.2018 58:57 ↓

WFIU's Will Murphy speaks with author Frank Bill and bookstore owner Brian Hawkins.

Oakland As Home, Home As Myth 25.02.2018 4:59 ↓

Yalie Kamara reads her poem "Oakland As Home, Home As Myth."

Shrubs For Shade 22.02.2018 2:00 ↓

The catalogs have arrived in the mail, so we are all thinking about what to order...

Journalist Jamie Kalven 19.02.2018 58:55 ↓

Steve Sanders speaks with Jamie Kalven about issues of press freedom, police accountability, and civil and human rights.

Eric Rensberger's Wintery Mix 18.02.2018 4:54 ↓

Eric reads his poems "Note to Self," "The Blizzard," "Of the Flakes," and "Snow in Three Parts."

Millions Of Roses 15.02.2018 2:00 ↓

About 120 million roses are purchased in the U.S. for Valentine’s Day each year.

A StoryCorps Valentine's Day 12.02.2018 58:54 ↓

A collection of short conversations about love from members of the community who were recorded by StoryCorps, during their visit to Bloomington last summer.

Global Flowers 08.02.2018 2:00 ↓

For Valentine’s Day, most of us will buy flowers, and those flowers are already enroute to us from abroad.

Conductor Patrick Summers 05.02.2018 58:54 ↓

Aaron Cain speaks with conductor Patrick Summers, Artistic and Music Director of Houston Grand Opera.

Indestructible Natives 01.02.2018 2:00 ↓

Native plants are well adapted to our growing conditions, and so most of them are easy to grow and need only minimal care once established.

Collections of Art, Architecture, and Music 29.01.2018 58:54 ↓

Meet The Art Collector Next Door, visit architectural marvel Columbus, Indiana, and more.

Sounds So Nice, Feels So Good 25.01.2018 7:10 ↓

The cornetto is a woodwind instrument with a brass-style cup mouth piece which flourished in the mid 1600’s, in the early to middle-baroque period.

Pollinator Plants 25.01.2018 2:00 ↓

This year, I’m going to buy more plants that provide food and shelter for pollinators.

Cornetto Master Bruce Dickey 20.01.2018 58:54 ↓

Dana Marsh speaks with Bruce Dickey, one of a few musicians who have dedicated themselves to reviving the cornetto, which fell into disuse in the 19th century.

Liatris Is A Monarch Magnet 18.01.2018 2:00 ↓

Liatris attracts lots of those lovely Monarch butterflies into our gardens.

Constitution Expert William Araiza 13.01.2018 58:54 ↓

Steve Sanders speaks with Brooklyn Law School Professor William Araiza about giving new life to the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection.

Native Prairies 11.01.2018 2:00 ↓

Since the 1830s, about 99 percent of American tall grass prairies have been destroyed.

Composer Renee Baker 06.01.2018 58:55 ↓

Janae Cummings speaks with composer, conductor, violinist, and violist Renee Baker.

Vienna Vocal Consort 05.01.2018 7:55 ↓

Machaut's 'Messe de Nostre Dame' is inordinately famous, and is often cited as the first complete polyphonic setting of a Mass ordinary by a single composer.

Ruined And Forsaken Gardens 04.01.2018 2:00 ↓

Poetry by Algernon Charles Swinburne and Oscar Wilde.

Cardinal Stage Company Artistic Director Kate Galvin 02.01.2018 44:33 ↓

speaks with Kate Galvin is the new artistic director of Cardinal Stage Company in Bloomington.

A Thousand Flowers, Each Seeming One 28.12.2017 2:00 ↓

Excerpts from" A Flower in a Letter" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Composer Jake Heggie 23.12.2017 58:54 ↓

WFIU's Aaron Cain speaks with contemporary classical composer Jake Heggie.

Musica Fiorita plays Molter 22.12.2017 7:51 ↓

The young Johann Melchior Molter likely learned the basics of music before attending Gymnasium in Eisenach where J.S. Bach had been a pupil a few years earlier.

Co-Existence 21.12.2017 2:00 ↓

Plants, like people, often seem better because of the virtues of others.