Focus on Flowers

Harmonia marks the 25th anniversary of Early Music America with a look at its past competition winners. Part one of two looks at the accomplishments of Ensemble La Rota, Asteria, and the Catacoustic Consort. Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations perform in featured release of music from the time of Louis XV.

“In the bleak Mid-winter, snow is falling, snow on snow” --Christina Rossetti

Look for the following symptoms if you suspect a cat has been poisoned: vomiting, diarrhea and a staggering gait.

The experimental, largely free verse poems in The Branch Will Not Break by James Wright shocked readers at the time and helped change American poetry.

Henry Purcell's complete odes & welcome songs (Hyperion), and a debut recording of music for viol consort (Lunaris).

This trail-blazing female landscape architect, born in 1869, began her career in 1912. When she died at 81 in 1950, she had designed over 600 gardens.

Ensemble Caprice offers music of Vivaldi, the New London Consort explores Tylman Susato’s “Dansereye,” and Bonporti inventions performed by Chiara Banchini.

Professor and poet Richard Cecil presents themes about students and teachers.

Pergolas provide not only walls, but also ceilings, with the possibility of plants growing between the series of horizontal beams, to create shade.