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WFIU: George Walker's Arts Interviews

2004-05

	Chicago - An interview with Michelle DeJean who plays Roxie Hart in the production coming to the IU Auditorium on January 31st and February 1st.
Hoagy’s Songs - Concert and CD producer Robert Stoll and harpist Jaymie Haefner discuss the new CD	Robert Samels/Cantabile - Program host, bass-baritone, composer and musicologist, Robert Samels describes the new Tuesday night WFIU program with its focus on vocal variety.
Beaux Arts Trio - Susann Schwibs producer of the Beaux Arts Trio 50th Anniversary Concert Special for WTIU	Angels We Have Heard… - William Studhalter continues with his survey of Christmas Carols
Crazy Quilt of Indiana Songs - Composer Lee Chapman discusses his songs of love, war, nature and nonsense that will be performed at the Waldron on Friday, December 2nd	Ballot Box Blizzard - The Bloomington Playwrights Project’s PR director Rachel Himsel and board member Bob Arnove talk about these nights of 30 ultra-short plays about the holidays and about the upcoming, December 3rd, celebratory opening and ribbon cutting at their new space at one-oh-seven West 9th Street.
Danielle Howard - An interview with the director of the IU Theatre production of “Wit.”	Camerata - Guest conductor Bruce Hangen talks about the upcoming
Leavesakes - ISU Theatre play by graduate Rachelle Martin, directed by Arthur Feinsod	Chen Yi - Chinese born composer, guest of the IU New Music Ensemble
Windfall Dancers - Director choreographer Andrea Martin and choreographer Bryn Mitchell discuss the group and their upcoming show “Nocturnes.”	Chicks with Dicks - BPP artistic Director Richard Perez talks about the play and BPP’s new space.
Macbeth - An interview with the IU Theatre’s Lord and Lady Macbeth, Scott Purkeypile and Vanessa Ballam	BHSS Music Man - Alex Harlig, Lauren Brown and Anton Lamon talk about their roles, choreographing high school boys and the emotional weight of the musical.
Romeo et Juliette - Tenor John Sumners and soprano Anne Seenersten talk about their roles in the IU Opera Theater production	Falsettos - Guest director Sara Lampert Hoover and actor John Armstrong discuss IU’s October 21-29, 2005 production of William Finn and James Lapine’s musical
Columbus Indiana Philharmonic - Pianist and Dean Emeritus of the IU School of Music Charles Webb discusses his solo piece, the Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue. He also talks about his student Fletcher Heisler who’ll be playing the Africa Fantasy by Camille Saint-Saens.	Arcadia - Interview with actor Eric Vantielen and designer Gordon Strain about the IU Theatre’s production of Tom Stoppard’s comedy.
Bicentennial Babies - Playwright Paul Shoulberg and actor Zack Spicer talk about this BPP Dark Alley Series play.	The Children’s Hour - An interview with Carolyn Rodkey, director of the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College production of Lillian Hellman’s play
Wailin Jennys - An interview with Nicky Mehta of the trio scheduled to appear at the Lotus Festival on the 22nd	Token - An interview with the mother and son writing team along with the music and stage directors of this new musical which opens at Bloomington South on the 17th with performances through the 24th.
Sven-David Sandstrom - A talk with the composer and IU faculty member about composing, musical structure and his High Mass which WFIU broadcasts Wednesday September 14th on Late Nigh Music at 1012.	Night at the Opera - Lisa Williamson, soprano and organizer of the talent for this annual Middleway House fund raiser.
Pilatus - Composer and librettist Robert Samels and librettist Jake Sentgeorge talk about the opera and the upcoming concert performance scheduled in the Indiana Memorial Union for September 4th at two	Windfall Dancers - Interview with Windfall Youth Company Director Andrea Martin and dancer/choreographers Molly Wilkinson and Alex Harlig. They discuss their upcoming production of ‘”Who Moved My Leotard” at the John Waldron, Tuesday 8/9
Family Portrait - An interview with director Hannah Smith and actor Cory Aiello of the BPP production of a new play co-written by members of the BPP Artists group.	Leonard Slatkin - Guest conductor with IU Summer Festival Orchestra for Claude Baker’s “Shadows” and Shostakovich’s “Leningrad Symphony” 8/4/05
Red Priest - Interview with leader Piers Adams about upcoming performances as part of the Indianapolis Early Music Festival	Interview with Robert Wood guest conductor of the IU Opera Theatre production of HMS Pinafore
An interview with Shawnee Theatre actor Tim Forsythe one of the trio of actors in Complete Shakespeare (Abridged)	An interview with founding director Sandra Freund and actors Alexis Roberts, Jared Arthur and Shayla Brown from BPP's Youth Theatre Ensemble production of Disney’s Aladdin, Jr.
Sword Against the Sea - Interview with ISU SummerStage director Sam McCready, The play is a compendium of William Butler Yeats plays and poetry assembled by ISU Theatre Department Chairman Arthur Feinsod.	Romeo and Juliet - Actors from the Bloomington Playwrights Project’s Youth Theatre Ensemble production - Erdin Schultz-Bever, Anna DeLong, Nick Berman
Brighton Beach Memoirs - An interview with actress Mary Carol Johnson who plays Kate, the mother in Neil Simon's play at the Brown County Playhouse	A Twist of Treason - Our guest is Julian Livingston the composer and librettist of this opera about Benedict Arnold both in his days as Washington’s most valued general and then as the archetypal traitor.
Little Bands School - An interview with the school’s founder “Josh Grekin.” www.littlebandsschool.com	Figs & Fate - Author Elsa Marston talks about her book of stories of contemporary Arab teenager
Playwright Eryn Miles and director Cory Aiello talk about Installations, the play at the BPP	George Walker talks with actress Sharon Ammen about the production of Plaza Suite that opens the ISU SummerStage series
Interview with Arthur Feinsod, chair of the ISU Theater Department and Artistic Director of SummerStage	Jonathan Michaelsen, Chair of the IU Department of Theatre and Drama and Director of the Brown County Playhouse talks about the upcoming season.
Artek	"Seven Times Salt" interview
Second of the two interviews with Auditorium Director Doug Booher. This one focuses on the second half of the 05-06 season.	First of the two interviews with Auditorium Director Doug Booher. This one focuses on the first half of the 05-06 season.
Interview with IU English Professor Stephen Watt about the upcoming production of "Machinal" at the BAAC	Bloomington Symphony Orchestra founding conductor Geoffrey Simon and founding member Tamas Ungar in town for the BSO’s 35th anniversary concert Sunday 5/1
Guys and Dolls - Bloomington High School South student cast members: Esther Widlandski, Evan VanDoren and Anna Ardizzone	Voces Novae - Director Sue Swaney and actor Paul Lane of their production of “New Harmonie: a Tale of Two Utopias”
Acting Teacher Lee Potts, Professor Emerita from the University of Colorado and veteran director and actor	Interview with director Courtney Giddings, co-producer with the BAAC on "Arcadia"
Interview with IU grad Andrew Lebon about his career at IU and the role of Jud Fry in the production of "Oklahoma"	Interview with ISU director Julie Dixon and actor Jonathan Golembecki of "Tweflth Night"
Interview with Director Michael Schwartzkopf, student choreographer Marie Campos, former Singing Hoosier and honoree Fred Mann	Interview about the upcoming production at the Bloomington Playwrights Project, "Secret Things" ( monologue by BPP Artistic Director Richard Perez)
Interview with Jason Shuffler from the cast of "Smokey Joe's Cafe"	Interview with with Jonathan Michaelson, director of the IU Theatre's production of "The Scarlet Letter"
Interview with Fred Child about AIGM and the upcoming transition	An interview with Lenore Hatfield, the Camerata Orchestra's founder and concert master
Interview with three IU Ballet Theatre dancers from Cinderella: :Joseph Morrissey, Prince; Meredith Strathmeyer, Stepsister on Friday and Principal in the "Orient" on Saturday, and Jenna Wolf, Cinderella	Interview with Peter Van Dyke, the overall manager of "Les Miserable"
Interview with Robert Ward, the composer of "The Crucible"	Interview with Terre Haute Symphony resident composer Dan Powers
Interview with director Arthur Feinsod and actor Jeremy Grimmer of "End Game"	Interview with Murray McGibbon and actor Carmund White of the IU Theatre production of Athol Fugard's "Master Harold and the Boys"
Interview with Sharon Ammen, director or Much Ado About Nothing at Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods College	Interview with Arthur Feinsod, director of Samuel Beckett's "Endgame"
Interview with Mike Price, director of the BAAC/Detour production of Paula Vogel's "Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief"	Interview with Tazewell Thompson
Interview with John Boyd	Interview with Catharine Bowman and composer P.Q. Phan.
Interview with Janis Stockhouse	Interview with Randy White of "Bacchai"
Guest Director Anita Gonzales from "Heat"	Jacob Kremer of television program Blue's Clues
William Bolcom speaks about his opera A View From the Bridge

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