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A listener finds tracks in the recent snow...

Western species of hummingbirds are now showing up in South Carolina in the winter.

As a young man, Ernest Chausson studied law, and was admitted to the bar. But music was his great love, and instead of practicing law he enrolled at the Paris Conservatory.

Prokofiev visited America a number of times, and his concerts here were extremely successful. His opera The Love for Three Oranges was premiered in Chicago, and he met his first wife, the soprano Lina Llubera, in New York City.

Imagine, for a moment, Mozart walking down Broadway, in New York City. It’s not so easy. But Lorenzo da Ponte, who wrote the librettos for Mozart’s operas Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, and Così fan tutte, died a New Yorker.

The composer Ernest Bloch was born in Switzerland, and after spending time in America, he was thinking of returning to Europe. But a visit in 1922 to the Library of Congress, in Washington DC, convinced Bloch to stay in this country, and to take American citizenship.

Maurice Ravel was certainly a composer who pushed boundaries, including the technical boundaries that musicians faced when performing his music.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Puja Elias about lifestyle changes to reduce symptoms of reflux disease. Dr. Elias is an Associate Professor of Medicine and a gastroenterologist specializing in esophageal diseases at MUSC.Transcript (PDF) available upon request. Please include the title or topic of the podcast and the date.

“G” is for Gary, Frank Boyd (1860-1922). U.S. senator, jurist.

Rudy shares his list...