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“D” is for Dawson, Francis Warrington (1840-1889). Journalist.

Yesterday I spoke about picturesque titles of musical compositions, and I quoted Robert Schumann on what he called the “clumsiness” of taking those titles too literally. Schumann’s friend Franz Liszt, on the other hand, coined the term “program music,” and said that when a piece has a program, or story, the musical ideas should clearly reflect the unfolding of the story.

More today about the timpani, or kettledrums. The “kettle” of a kettledrum is called the “bowl,” and is made of copper or brass. The “head” of the drum,…

A number of spring's early harbingers are now in bloom in South Carolina.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Shannon Phillips about research related to monitoring and managing sickle cell disease symptoms in children. Dr. Phillips is an Associate Professor in the college of Nursing at MUSC, and the lead researcher on a study related to children with sickle cell disease.

For many years scholars made assumptions about how Europeans traded with West Africans for other, enslaved Africans, about how many voyages were made by slave ships to the English colonies in North America before 1808, and about why the institution of slavery almost died out in New England. Beginning in the late 1960s, however, a movement began that challenged these assumptions and the viewpoints of generations of Euro-centric scholars began to give way to work by data-driven historians.Dr. Donald Wright, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York College at Cortland, is one of the historians who was part of this sea change in scholarship. He spent decades writing about African history, beginning as graduate student collecting oral histories in Gambia, as well as African American history, and Atlantic history. His books include Oral Traditions from the Gambia and African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins Through the American Revolution.This week Walter Edgar talks with Donald Wright about the myths about and some of the hard facts of the Atlantic slave trade.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Alec DeCastro about maintaining balance and flexibility in the older adult years. Dr. DeCastro is an Associate Professor and Chief of Primary Care Sports Medicine in the Department of Family Medicine at MUSC.

A listener finds a pile of bones in the woods. One in particular catches his attention.

April 5, 2022 — SC Senate Minority Leader Brad Hutto, D-Orangeburg, on his party's priorities for the remaining days of the legislative session; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, on his decision not to support US Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation; and much more.

“E” is for Eight Box Law. The Eight Box Law of 1882 was an election law to ensure White supremacy in South Carolina without violating the Fifteenth Amendment of the US Constitution.