Radio Broadcasts

Radio Broadcasts
WICR 88.7 FM, Indianapolis

Streaming Audio on the Web at wicr.uindy.edu

Art for Ears® :   Wednesday evenings at 6:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 12:00 Noon.

A program of the Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis teaching young people about classical music, this weekly radio series introduces composers, genres, instruments, and important works performed by master artists.   Alum Amanda Ratliff is host and producer of Art for Ears® and Education Grants Manager for the Fine Arts Society.   Accessible commentary enlightens each selected work and explains circumstances surrounding composition as well as interesting details about each piece.

Choral Colors:   Sunday mornings at 8 a.m.  

Alumnus Brent Miller, Fine Arts Society Director of Programming, hosts Choral Colors, a one-hour weekly program featuring sacred and secular works in a variety of styles, both live performances and studio sessions.   Choral Colors explores the limits of the most basic tool of artistic expression, the human voice, in a way that proves interesting, moving, educating, and entertaining.

Faculty Artist Series Broadcasts:   second Wednesdays of each month at 10 p.m.

Broadcast highlights of the University's acclaimed of Faculty Artist Series are hosted by Amanda Ratliff and produced in cooperation with the Fine Arts Society.   Each hour-long program presents a great deal of variety; you may hear the New Century String Quartet performing Ronald McKean, Kathleen Hacker and Petar Jankovic in songs of Ernesto Cordero, Mozart and Schubert played on period pianos by Richard Ratliff, or music of guest composer Don Freund performed by faculty and guests, to name just a few.   Dr. Jo Ann Domb, Music Department Chair: "The Faculty Artist Series has been a shining star of the Music Department since I came to the University of Indianapolis 20 years ago.   I am so pleased that we are now sharing these wonderful performances with a broader audience."

How Jazz Works:   Saturday evenings at 9 p.m.

Director of Jazz Studies Harry Miedema focuses on the elements that make jazz America's unique art form and discusses the important contributions of various artists.   This program is coordinated with the Intro to Jazz classes offered each semester by the Music Department.  

Keyboard Kaleidoscope:   Sunday evenings at 6 p.m., April through September  

Professor of Music Richard Ratliff explores the world of piano in all its diversity:   solo repertoire, concertos, and chamber music performed by master pianists past and present.   You will hear historical recordings and those newly released, recordings played on period instruments as well as those on the modern grand.   Giants of previous generations are heard alongside masters of the present day, including historic reissues of Schnabel, Kempff, Fischer, Arrau, and Rubinstein.