WFIU: George Walker's Arts Interviews

2006

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A Year with Frog and Toad 12/15-16 and 12/22-/23
Cardinal Stage Co. Director Randy White
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Camerata 12/10/06
Percussionist Kenny Aronoff
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The First Noel
Carol Historian William Studwell
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BPP Playoffs, Tailgate Party 12/09/06
Breshaun Joyner, Heather Lynn
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Singing Hoosiers, Chimes of Christmas 12/06/06
Dir. Baron Breland, singers Matt Christensen and Jonathan Davidson
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Messiah
Columbus Indiana Philharmonic w. chorus and soloists 11/18/06
David Bowden, conductor
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IU Ballet Theater’s The Nutcracker, 12/01/06, 12/02 and 12/03
Dancers Ashley Thursby and Catherine Wolfson
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Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, pianist Jeremy Denk
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Bloomington Symphony Orchestra founder Geoffrey Simon
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Columbus Indiana Children’s Choir
Artistic Director Ruth Dwyer
Columbus Indiana Philharmonic’s Holiday Favorites, 12/09/06
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Reel by Paul Shoulberg at the IUT 12/1/06-12/09
Paul Shulberg with actors Melanie Derleth and Mathew Buffalo
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The Crucible at the IU Theatre 11/10-18 or so Fri Sa and then Mon-Sa
John Armstrong and Dan Kramer
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Violinist Susie Parks - November 4, 2006
(Terre Haute Symphony).
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Hansel and Gretel at the IU Opera Theatre
Laura Alley, guest stage director
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Arrangement for Two Violas at the BPP
Richard Perez, director
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Pippin at BHSS 11/4/06 and 11/11
Actors: Gregory Stone, Hanna Mordoh and Taylor Crousore
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Goodyear, Stewart- piano soloist
Camerata Orchestra 11/05/06
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Lon Chaney in “the Phantom of the Opera”
Accompanied by organist Dennis James
IU Auditorium 10/31/06
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The Producers, IU Auditorium 10/20,21,22 /06
Jason Simon plays Max Bialystock (correct)
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Urinetown, the Musical IUT 10/20/06-10/28
Director Danielle Howard, Actor Eric Van Tielen
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Real College/ Real Freedom
Saint Mary of the Woods College 10/19/06 and 10/20
Actors Sarah Vaughn and Elizabeth Ortiz
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Martha MacLeish, IU faculty member
One of sixteen artists in theNorth American Exhibition of paper and Plastic Arts Oct 13th –Dec 10th
Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute
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Author Elizabeth Winthrop
Counting on Grace :a fictional account of a young girl’s lost childhood to the brutal conditions of the cotton mills in 1910. Inspired by an exhibit of child labor photographs taken by famed photographer Lewis Hine.
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Biava Quartet IU Auer Hall 8 pm Wednesday 10/11/06
Violist Mary Persin
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Michael Vernon, Director of the IU Ballet Theater
Fall Ballet, From Balanchine to Baker: An International Evening of Dance , 10/06/06 and 10/07
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Pianist Di Wu - October 7, 2006
(Columbus Indiana Philharmonic)
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The Birthday Party IU Theatre 10/6-10/14
Actors Harper Jones and Allison Moody
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Joshua Bell new CD The Voice of the Violin
(This will be a featured CD during the FD which begins on 10/3)
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Pianist Edumund Battersby talks about upcoming concert with the Vermeer Quartet 09/24/06
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Brent McPike, guitar soloist
Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra 09-23-06
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Don Giovanni
C. David Higgins IU Faculty Member and designer of the new production
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Susann McDonald, harp soloist
Columbus Indiana Philharmonic Orchestra 09/16/06
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Mike Runyon harmonica soloist
Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra 09/10/06
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Border Lines at BPP 9/14-30
Director Noe Montez, actor Emilio Robles
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Maria de Buenos Aires, Buskirk Chumley Theatre August 31st, 2006
Hebe de Champeaux and Mihaela Bogdan
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Manon, IU Opera Theater October 20th, 2006
Betsy Uschkrat, Miss IU and Miss Indiana, plays Manon
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IU Jacobs School of Music Summer Festival Orchestra (08/03/06)
R. Strauss, Ein Heldebleben; W. Lutoslawski, Concerto for Orchestra
Conductor Leonard Slatkin
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IU Opera Theater, Mikado 07/28 and 29/06 and 08/04 and 05/06
Singers Megan Radder and Joshua Whitener
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Bloomington Playwrights Project Youth Musical Theatre, “Peter Pan” 7/27/06-7/30
Actors: Chloe Strauss, Agnes Zhu, James Mitchell
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Brown County Playhouse Compleat Works of William Shakespeare (08/-3/-6-08/27)
Actors: Nick Arapoglou, Chris Hatch
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Shawnee Theatre, Our Town (07/27-30/06)
Artistic Director Mathew Graber
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BPP Youth Shakepeare Company MacBeth (07/06/06-07/09)
Dir. Breshaun Joyner, actors Nathan Stanger, Kate Schneider, Michael Ipsen
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Brown County Playhouse
Arms and the Man
Actor Michael Farina
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Crossroads Repertory Theatre - Moon Over Buffalo
opens 6/23/06

Director Kristin Kundert-Gibbs and actor Susan Monts-Bologna
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Crossroads Repertory Theatre
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown
Director Chris Berchild and actor Scott Keith
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Shawnee - I Only Have Fangs for You (06/28/06-0709)
Director Kevin Gutheridge
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Shawnee Theatre The Odd Couple June 15-18, 2006
Director Jen Alexander
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BPP - The Postman (06/23/06-06/24)
Playwright Julia Weiss, Director Anneliese Toft
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IU Summer Music Festival
American Chamber Players (6/18/06)

Founder and violist Miles Hoffman
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Indianapolis Festival Music Society
Seattle Baroque (06/23/06 and 06/25)

Kim Pineda
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Shawnee Summer Theatre
The Foreigner (06/22/06-06/25)

Director Lauren Morris-Bertram
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The festival music society of Indiana’s
2006 Indianapolis Early Music Festival
New York State Baroque (07/23/06)
Founder and oboist Peter Hedrick
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For Love of Music
Author Michael Steinberg
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Le Vent du Nord
Olivier Demers
Second Annual Summer Lotus Benefit and Festival 06/09/06
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Brown County Playhouse - Smoke on the Mountain 6/8/06-7/2/06
Actor Paul Blankenship
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2006 Indianapolis Early Music Festival - Albuquerque Baroque Players (07/22/06)
Harpsichordist Susan Patrick
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BLEMF- The Ivory Consort “Troubadours Across the Pyrenees” Saturday, May 20, 2006
Jay Elfenbein, founder and director
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BLEMF - La Monica performing Sunday 05/28/06
Harpsichordist Avi Stein
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BLEMF Chiaroscuro 5/27/06
Violinist Linda Melsted and organist Boris Medicky
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The Festival Music Society of Indiana’s 2006 Indianapolis Early Music Festival
Mark Cudek from the Baltimore Consort which appears on Friday July 7th
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Christmas Eve at the Flannigans
BAAC May 19-June 3, 2006

Director Jeremy Wilson, actors Jessica Rothert and Jeff Stone
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Il Re Pastore
BLEMF - 05/19/06

Stanley Ritchie/ Catherine Aaron
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Voces Novae: “Progress and Perfectibility” 5/14/06
Artistic Director Sue Swaney, Artist Joe Lee
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Turandot at the Indianapolis Opera, May 5th and 7th, 2006
Indianapolis Shortridge H.S. graduate Doug Perry who plays Pang
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Zoe Vandermeer
Singer and harpists, Bloomington Early Music Festival Harpist 5/28/06
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First Stages at the BPP 5/11/06-5/13
BPP Artistic Director Richard Perez and Cardinal Stage Co. Founder Randy White
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Bye Bye Birdie at Bloomington High School South May 5,6, 12 and 13, 2006
Rainelle Bumbaugh
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West Side Story at Bloomington High School North 5/4/06-5/14
Ben Lawson, Tony; Alison Stake, Marie
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Noa Baum, Israeli storyteller
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Mamma Mia!
Robert Pendilla who plays the islander Pepper in the production.
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Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, J. Irwin Miller Concert: Prokofiev and Beethoven
Interview with violinist Cho Liang-Lin

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Ballet at the BCT
Student dancer choreorgraphers Stephanie Lampe and Lauren Collier discuss the IU Ballet Theater’s Choreographic Workshop performances at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on April 19 and 20, 2006

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An Evening of French Baroque Music and Dance
Choreographer and dancer Catherine Turocy and Michael McCraw the Director of IU’s Early Music Institute Hall.
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Transformations, Conrad Susa’s opera based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Sexton’s set of poem-stories, based on Grimm Brothers’ tales
Director Mihaela Bogdan, conductor Scott Voyles, soprano Bethany Barber Hall
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IU Mozart Violin and Piano Sonata Marathon
Pianist and new IU faculty member Yael Weiss describes her coaching of the seventeen duos for this seven hour Saturday April 8/06 event in Recital Hall.
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Carmen
Sophie Louise Roland, Carmen in the IU Opera Theatre 06 production.
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Singing Hoosiers
Director Michael Schwartkopf and student Catherine Orzel talk about the April 1, 2006 concert.
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IU Ballet Theater
Dancers Michelle Mahowald and Justin Zuschlag talk about their own beginnings as dancers and the upcoming 2006 Spring Program “From Bournonville to Balanchine: An Evening of Legendary Ballets.”
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Kaia
Kaia, an alll-woman a cappella vocal ensemble.
Founder Carrill Mills and new member Amy Jackson.
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Dawn Upshaw
Three-time Grammy Award winning American soprano Dawn Upshaw.
She’s performing at the IU Auditorium on Wednesday, April 19, 2006
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Shigeo Neriki Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi
The pianist and cellist talk about their two concert traversal of all five of Beethoven’s sonatas and three of the sets of varations on 3/9/06 and 3/10.
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Atar Arad
Violist and IU Faculty member joins the Orion String Quartet in their third residency this year as they finish a traversal of Mozart’s six Viola Quintets in concerts on March 5 and 6, 2006
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The Marriage of Figaro
An interview with mezzo-soprano Kirsten Gunlogson. The IU grad plays the amorous page Cherubino in the March 10 and 12 production of 06.
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Earth Day, Celebration at Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods
A conversation with Candace Hack the Earth Day Coordinator with the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice.
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"She Stoops to Conquer" at the IU Theatre
An interview with director Fontaine Syer.
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Medea - The Origination of the Happenings
Student playwright Jonathan Golembieki and faculty member director Chris Birchild talk about the Indiana State University Theatre production.
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ST MARYOFTHE WOODS DIR SHARON AMMEN
An interview with the director of the upcoming (Feb 23-26 2006) production of “The Mikado.”
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Our Town: Tappan Wilder
An interview with Thornton Wilder’s nephew and the Literary Executor of the Wilder Estate.
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Our Town: J.D. McClatchy
A talk with long time friend of composer Ned Rorem and the librettist for “Our Town”.
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Our Town: Ned Rorem
An interview with the Pulitzer Prize winning composer of the new opera “Our Town,” based on Thornton Wilder’s play being premiered at the IU Opera Theatre in a production conducted by David Effron with stage direction by Vincent Liotta and design by David Higgins.
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Pianist and Scholar Charles Rosen
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Composer Edwin Penhorwood with soprano Twyla Robinson
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BAAC Arts Award
Arts in Education Award:Deniese Smith
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BAAC Arts Award
Business Award:Goeff Grodner
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BAAC Arts Award
Arts Advocate: Sally Gaskill
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BAAC Arts Award
Mary Aiken: Green County Arts Award
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The Barber of Seville, IU Opera Theatre
(airs 2/2/06, show opens on 2/3)
Baritone Jason Plourde who plays Figaro
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2006 BAAC Arts & Cultural Organization Award Winner
David Goodrun, president of the Fourth Street Festival of the Arts and Crafts
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2006 BAAC Arts Leadership Award
Brad Fugate from Owen County
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2006 BAAC Arts Leadership Award Winner
Carol Voris from Lawrence County
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2006 BAAC Artist Partnership Award Winners
Frederick Rigley and Patricia Rhoden Bartels from Brown County
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Moroccan-Andalusian Classical Orchestra
(broadcast 2/8; show 2/10)
Ethomusicology grad student Anthony Guest-Scott with musician and businessman Anass Sentissi
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Terre Haute Symhony Radio Days
(broadcast 2/7; show 2/11)
David Bowden, Artistic Director and Conductor
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The Housewives of Mannheim
Director Jonathan Rest and actress Sarah Feldman speak about this play by Alan Brody. It opens at the Bloomington Playwrights Project on 2/9/2006
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Honour
Joanna Murray-Smith, directed by Murray McGibbon, at the IU Theatre: Actors Jessica Rothert and Jeff Grafton.
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Richard Stoltzman
Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman discusses the commissioning, composing and performing of the Concerto by Rautavaara
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New Frontiers/Contemporary Traditions
Choreographer Elizabeth Shea, composer Jeff Hass and lighting designer Rob Shekepeare
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Our Town
Actors Dianne Kondrat and Henry Worronicz from the Cardinal Stage Company production of Thornton Wilder’s play directed by Randy White
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Dinner with Friends
Actors Francesca Sobret and Danielle Bruce from the BPP/BAAC/Miro Production of Donald Margulies play directed by Bruce Burgun.
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