Bloomington Parks and Rec is using live musical performances to enhance environmental awareness with its Nature Sounds series. 

WFIU: Jazz

Tuning In And Turning On To Nature Sounds

Joshua Scott Carter as Stone, the detective, with Mary Beth Black as Oolie, the secretary. I’m George Walker for WFIU Arts. City of Angels at IU’s Ruth N. Halls Theatre is a musical inspired by those dark mystery dramas like The Maltese Falcon. Larry Gelbart’s book with David Zipel‘s lyrics and Cy Coleman’s jazzy score […] 

City of Angels Review

I’m George Walker for WFIU Arts. West Side Story opened this weekend at the IU Opera Theater. When the show debuted on Broadway in 1957 I was just about the age of Baby John, the youngest member of the Jets. My friends and I spent a lot of time listening to the gang’s “Officer Krupke” […] 

West Side Story, A Teen Tale For Generations

"The Singing Hoosier's and the Chimes of Christmas goes backdecades. We've welcomed the Vocal Jazz Ensemble to join us since their inception." Ly Wilder 

The IU Vocal Jazz Ensemble Chimes In For Christmas

Is music-making valuable only when pursued toward mastery? The St. Charles Parent Band revels in its amateur status, yet nudges members toward improvement. 

St. Charles Parent Band: Picking Up Where They Left Off

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Sweet Charity, Musical Snapshots Of New York in the 60s

Audio engineer Mark Hood started his successful career in an unlikely place. 

An Unusual Home Studio That Launched Many Careers

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Sylvia Sings Gershwin

Trio talk: trumpeter and IU faculty member Pat Harbison, drummer and bandleader Mitch Shiner, and WFIU's David Brent Johnson discuss the movie "Whiplash." 

A Jazz Backlash Against “Whiplash”?

I was set for music college as a bass,but on the radio there was the countertenor Andreas Scholl and knew that I wanted to sing like that." Timothy Wayne-Wright 

The King’s Singers Fall For The Great American Songbook

IU's Hoo Shir A Capella, a group created by a request from the White House. 

IU’s Hoo Shir, A Group Created At A President’s Request

One of two IU faculty members to be nominated for a Grammy this year, Wallace is a committed educator and a proponent of the continued relevance of Latin jazz. 

Double Vision: Wayne Wallace’s Latin Jazz Quintet

What happens when an orchestra drops out? A Bela Fleck concert at the IU Auditorium creates controversy around Bloomington 

Best of a Bad Situation? Bela Fleck at the IU Auditorium

She brings songs from the Great American Songbook and Weimar cabaret, alongside her originals, to Greencastle Thursday night. 

Nellie McKay: Not The Usual Standard-Bearer

Christine Salem, controversial singer of banned slave songs, invited local chanteuse Janiece Jaffe to join her Lotus set for a musical meeting of spirits. 

Songs Of The Spirit Need No Translation

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