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Artistic director, fund raiser and stellar professional pianist Clare Longendyke talks about the Music in Bloom festival, inaugurated this May in Bloomington, In., and in nearby Brown County State Park.

The conversation includes her ideas and impressions of modern music, much including emerging technologies, as well as her love and admiration of living composers.

Clare will be an important contributor, hopefully all in central Indiana, for years to come. Listen to her work as this podcast concludes.

Bill Clouse has been processing mortgages more than three decades. He knows how borrowers qualify, how credit scores apply (even The Karma Score), background of The Big Short (a movie about the recession of 2007-2009), as well as how to deal with one of our hosts, Morton Marcus.

This recording opens with sounds of a haunted house. Bill knows how to remove the fear.

Angelo Pizzo (Hoosiers, and Rudy), raised two blocks from The Indiana University Basketball Arena, loves sports, films, and creativity.

He is working on three projects. The first is about the Maynard (Iowa) girls championship basketball team of 1957. Another is a coming of age romance set in The Civil War. The last is about fire horses in 19th century New York City, all trained to overcome their aversion to fire.

The conversation includes writing for the stage, for film, and for radio, as well as his service as a board member of The Kinsey Institute.

The enduring topic of vaccinations is covered in this conversation, and a new program is presented.

The new program is an effort by The State of Indiana to provide counseling to pregnant women. This program is proven to have reduced infant mortality.

(And Indiana is 7th among the states in infant mortality.)

Scholar, Dean, founder of The Indiana German Heritage Society, a facilitator of The Indianapolis-Cologne Sister City Committee, and teacher, Giles Hoyt knows the history and culture as well as anyone.

Here we learn about The Athenaeum, fine bakeries in Indianapolis, as well as about the skill of teaching and differences among students at different campuses.

Having served as a judge, mayor, county historian and teacher of government and political science, Joe Castelo has observed directly, personally, painfully, the slow demise of rural, small town Indiana.

Here we learn about departure of young people, the absence of state support for beneficial highway routes, slow internet speeds, the powerful role of "community spirit," and disappearance of locally-owned banks and newspapers.

This conversation with Ed Richardson, President & CEO of Thomas & Skinner, Inc., is a detailed discussion about management of a business, in this case, a manufacturer of ALNICO magnets.

The magnets are used in satellites, missiles, aircraft, and even watt meters in homes.

Subjects are skilled and unskilled labor, Indiana's business environment, hiring and creating U.S. citizens, tariffs, and dealing with a static market.

With thirty six years of advocacy, The Hoosier Environmental Council has protected our state's most valuable asset, the place where we live.

Led by our guest, The Council has worked to protect rural areas from animal factory pollution, inventoried and proposed methods to limit the dangers of coal ash dumps (Indiana has more than any other state), worked for more protected land and for sustainable energy.

With pending termination of a national forestry act, The Indiana Forest Alliance is advocating protection and reforestation.

Trees, it says, begin to solve the problem of climate change because they remove offending particles from the air. Urban forestry both lowers temperatures and raises home values.

And a program of classified forests, areas of 10 acres or more, privately held, pay taxes on only $13 of assessed value, as opposed to more than $3,000 for unprotected private land, if owners pledge to maintain trees.

Listen to the end, where you will hear a piano solo by Emmet Cohen, the 2019 American Pianists Award Winner. For this, we thank our guest, Joel Harrison, President, CEO and Artistic Director, from whom we learn about The Jazz Competition, The Classical Competition, and his personal history managing the association since 2001.

Joel has a big job: organizing, raising funds, managing money, and playing that Steinway Grand sitting comfortably in his home.