Focus on Flowers

Those of us who live in cold climates love houseplants that will flower indoors in winter and one with great appeal is the cyclamen.

Ross Gay holds a Ph.D in American Literature from Temple University. He is a basketball coach, an occasional demolition man, a painter, and a faculty member at Indiana University and in the low-residency program at New England College.

Look for hyacinth glasses next time you are in antique stores and garden centers. If we grow a hyacinth indoors in winter the perfume that fills the house creates a heady experience.

An innovative approach to lute music of the Renaissance and Baroque.

Tony Brewer has a new chapbook coming out from Plan B Press in the spring of 2010. He reads “Down East” and "At the End of the Session” on this edition of The Poets Weave.

Louise B. Fisher's traditional yet creative approach was a major force in defining an American style of flower arranging.

A Christian expression of joy, the word “noel” has been associated with Christmas for hundreds of years. This week, Harmonia looks at its many guises in music from the Middle Ages to the early baroque. Plus a new release of Mozart violin sonatas with Petra Müllejans and Kristian Bezuidenhout.