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A Violinist, a Conductor and a Pianist walked into a bar...

On this week's show host Diana Moxon lingers in the world of classical music with pianist and Odyssey Chamber Music Series founder Ayako Tsuruta; Maestro Scott Yoo - ...

New plays, giant checks and rare 18th century tiny treasures

New plays, giant checks, and tiny 18th century rare treasures all make an appearance on this week's Speaking of the Arts with host Diana Moxon. Playwrights Monica Sen...

'Green Chili and Other Imposters', the life of a touring Broadway actor, and RENT at Mizzou

On this week's show a lusciously written new book about the food history of India; the life of a touring Broadway actor during a pandemic; and New York circa 1989 and ...

Greenhouse Theatre Project, the Macklanburg theatre, Sager Reeves Gallery & the Columbia Art League

A swedish mystic artist, a woman who runs with wolves, a mid century painter who explored the micoscopic and the massive, a musical revue set in an unmarked bar on Chr...

Three painters and a poet: Checking in with the Missouri Arts Council's October artists

Each month the Missouri Arts Council features four artists on its website from a variety of arts genres, and on this week's show Diana Moxon checks in with the October...

Improv Elephants, Arsenic in the Elderberry Wine, and Making a Music Center Dream Come True

On this week's show, host Diana Moxon chats with three songwriting musicians - Audra Sergel, Phylshawn Johnson and Violet Vonder Haar, about making their dream of a mi...

Tea and crumpets with Ragtag Film Society artistic director, Chloe Trayner and some 'Almost, Maine' romcom.

As Broadway returns to the stage, so too do many regional theatres including Stephens College's Macklanburg Playhouse, which opens the third revised edition of the rom...

Roots n Blues weekend with Tracy Lane, Shay Jasper, Violet Vonder Haar and Sifa

Like so much in 2020, Columbia's annual Roots n Blues festival was stymied by the pandemic BUT this weekend it is back with 3 days of music that puts female musicians ...

Classical music at the pub, climate change theatre, a shorts film festival, and the return of the Interpretations art show

On this week's show a cross-section of Columbia's arts instigators, each working creatively to change expectations. The Missouri Symphony Orchestra is taking classical...

A metalsmith, an airbrush assassin, a jazz singer, and a painter: Checking in with the Missouri Arts Council's September artists

Each month the Missouri Arts Council features four artists on its website from a variety of arts genres, and on this week's show Diana Moxon checks in with the Septemb...

"Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee", a chat with author Casey Cep

As the Daniel Boone Regional Library kicks off its month-long One Read program, host Diana Moxon chats to this year's One Read author Casey Cep about her book 'Furious...

Some Hedwig, an open house, and sounds of the Roots n Blues festival

Music takes center stage on this week's show with host, Diana Moxon, taking a peek at an upcoming rock musical, an open house studio tour, and the Roots n Blues festiv...

A triplet of plays: Lake Shakes, Plan 9 The Musical from Outer Space, and Golgotha plus a Celebration of the Arts

Three incredibly different theatrical productions open in Columbia in the next 10 days: scenes from Shakespeare performed on a lake, a musical about invading aliens, a...

Four artists: Ceramic, fantasy surrealism, watercolor and poly-disciplinary. This month's Missouri Arts Council featured artists.

Each month the Missouri Arts Council features four artists on its website from a variety of arts genres, and on this week's show Diana Moxon checks in with the August ...

Arts Women Making it Happen: Roots n Blues Festival, Guerl-rilla Theatre, and an Art Bus

The 14th annual Roots n Blues festival returns to Stephens Lake Park from September 24th-26th and features a line-up of almost exclusively women artists. On this week'...

Photographer Shane Epping gets the Arts Exit interview

Photographer Shane Epping and his work have been a constant in Columbia for the past 16 years, but next month Shane and his family leave mid-Missouri and head to Laram...

Behind the scenes at the Mizzou International Composer's Festival

Each summer since 2010, the Mizzou New Music Initiative has held its Mizzou International Composer's Festival, selecting a handful of up-and-coming composers to study ...

A jeweler, a firework residue artist, a bluegrass Americana singer songwriter, and a mixed media artist: the Missouri Arts Council featured July artists

Each month the Missouri Arts Council features four artists on its website from a variety of arts genres, and on this week's show Diana Moxon checks in with the July fo...

A Missouri summer mix: book ideas, an art exhibit, and the crossroads of symphonic music and hip hop dance

Things to do while sipping fruity cocktails. This week show host, Diana Moxon, chats summer reading tips with Skylark Bookshop owner, Alex George; visits Sager Braudis...

From mediaeval Europe to Missouri: some Shakespeare, some Vanitas art, and a soaring soprano

Although each of the arts in this week’s chats can trace their roots to European arts of bygone times, each of those roots has blooms that stretch into modern America....

Madagascar The Musical, Intertwined art exhibit, the Blind Boone mural, and a COMO bicentennial concert

How do you do it? is the question that runs through this week's Speaking of the Arts. How do you perform an outdoor musical in the Missouri summer heat for a productio...

A choreographer, a photographer, a glass artist and a classical guitarist: A check in with the Missouri Arts Council's June artists

Each month the Missouri Arts Council features four artists on its website from a variety of arts genres, and on this week's show Diana Moxon checks in with the June fo...

Film, orchestral music, moving a theatre home, and a one-woman play

This week's Speaking of the Arts is an eclectic mix of film, classical music, and theatre. Host Diana Moxon gets a review of the recent True/False film fest from its D...

Lap-tapping guitarist Yasmin Williams and her new album 'Urban Driftwood' (repeat show)

Having mastered Guitar Hero as a young teen, Yasmin Williams picked up a guitar, sat it horizontally across her lap, and developed her style of lap-tapping guitar. Thi...

Monica Palmer sits in for Diana Moxon and talks theatre with CEC and Maplewood Barn

Speaking of the Arts founder, Monica Palmer, is back for this week's show and talks about her favorite subject: Theatre! with three leading lights from the Columbia th...

Two painters, a poet and a concert pianist: Checking in with the Missouri Arts Council's May artists

Each month the Missouri Arts Council features four artists on its website from a variety of arts genres, and on this week's show Diana Moxon checks in with the May fou...

Documentary film makers, Peter Nicks on 'Homeroom', and Aurora Brachman on 'Club Quarantine'

In a time of endless cancelations, the True/False Film Fest pulled off the near impossible this week and moved their entire festival outdoors. And although only a few ...

A documentary, a theatre production, an art show, and a monologue contest

This week Diana Moxon chats with William Horner and Stacey Woelfel, the directors of a new documentary, "Keep the Cameras Rolling: The Pedro Zamora Way", produced by a...

A one-person show, an art exhibit, a virtual fest and a keynote literary event all walked into a bar...

This week's show is a potpourri of arts events both IRL and virtual. Playwright and performer Andrew Black opens his new one-person, one-act show called 'What Same Sex...

From jazz tuba to sculptural photography: Checking in with the Missouri Arts Council's featured April artists

Each month the Missouri Arts Council features four artists on its website from a variety of arts genres, and on this week's show Diana Moxon checks in with the April f...

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