Focus on Flowers

Musicologist Andrew Woolley discovered a flute concerto by Antonio Vivaldi at the National Archives of Scotland.

Music for the orchestras of Louis XIII and XIV, as well as works from the time of Louis XV.

Annie Corrigan hosts this interview with Alice Curry, executive director of the Columbus Philharmonic, who plays selections of her favorite music.

On this edition of The Poets Weave, "Aunt Helen," "Hysteria", and an excerpt from "The Waste Land."

The complete Musique de Table with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (Harmonia Mundi) and string concertos with Musica Antiqua Cologne (Archiv Produktion).

Last Spring, I received a lovely gift from my friend Marie Louise. It was a euphorbia cultivar named ‘Cherry Cobbler’.

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.

Russell Edson is called the father of the prose poem in America.

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.

Annie Corrigan hosts this interview with Leonard Slatkin, the Arthur R. Metz Foundation Conductor at IU’s Jacobs School of Music.

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.

Eileen Myles is a New York City-based poet and author who has performed and published her work widely since 1974.

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.

Shana Ritter hosts this interview with poet Eileen Myles. The program includes Myles reading several of her poems.

Early poetry T.S. Eliot, including the poem "Morning at the Window," "Cousin Nancy," and "Preludes."

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.

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

Born in Connecticut in 1935, poet, playwright, and visual artist, Russell Edson is the father of the prose poem in America.

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.

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.

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.

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."

Shana Ritter hosts this interview with San Francisco-based writer and performance artist Canyon Sam.

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.”

Colglazier reads "Oolitic," "Jewel," "The Congressman," "Myra," and more on this extended web edition of The Poets Weave.