Focus on Flowers

Some of the best early music heard in the past year.

Professor and poet, Maura Stanton reads her poems "Fortune Cookie," "Stapler," and "Net."

Classical Italian gardens are usually formal and constructed symmetrically with intersecting pathways, a central fountain and clipped topiaries and hedges.

Owen Johnson speaks with Russian journalist, music critic, concert promoter, and broadcaster Artemy Troitsky.

Poet Keith Leonard reads "The Party Wasn't Apocalyptic," "Porky Pig Speaks of Success," and "Two Eggs, Burnt Toast."

J.S. Bach's "Magnificat" (Channel Classics) and Purcell's "Dido & Aeneas" (Ambronay).

A cactus in full bloom is guaranteed to lift one’s spirits.

A rebroadcast of George Walker's 2003 interview with tuba master Harvey Phillips.