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Your strange job as a performing artist—musician, actor, or dancer—is to immerse yourself completely in the work of art you’re performing—to lose yourself, in a sense—and yet at all times to remain aware of precisely what you’re doing and how you’re doing it.

Counterpoint, also called polyphony, is the art, in musical composition, of combining two or more simultaneous lines of music.

We musicians have all known people we’ve found to be thoroughly unpleasant, even cruel, or thoroughly insipid and boring, who walk on stage and play or sing beautifully, movingly. How is this possible?

“N” is for New Era Club. Founded in Spartanburg in 1912, the New Era Club began disguised as a study group.

“O” is for Opera houses. In the period between 1880 and 1920, opera houses flourished in communities across South Carolina.

“R” is for Ravenel, Harriott Horry Rutledge (1832-1912). Novelist, biographer, historian.

Storeria dekayi, commonly known as the brown snake or De Kay's snake, is a small non-venomous species of snake in the family Colubridae.[3][4] Seven subspecies are recognized as being valid.

The sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia.

The Mexican free-tailed bat or Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) is a medium-sized bat native to the Americas, regarded as one of the most abundant mammals in North America.

A listener reports seeing a lunar moth that has just emerged from the cocoon. The Luna moth (Actias luna) is a Nearctic moth in the family Saturniidae, subfamily Saturniinae, a group commonly known as giant silk moths.