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Festival Artistic Directors Marina Lomazov and Joseph Rackers speak on the growth of the SEPF since its inaugural year, and take a look at how it serves as both a showcase for top talents and a forge of friendships.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. John shares his insights from the recent SC SmartState forum.

After receiving over 80 applications for a start-up business contest with ideas ranging from helipad maintenance to spent nuclear fuel recycling, eight winners were selected by our next guest’s organization to receive prize packages that, in total, represented more than $100,000. Mike Switzer interviews Eric Weissman, executive director of NEXT in Greenville, SC.

After working in economic development in Louisiana, our next guest accepted the position of directing the economic development efforts for our state’s life sciences industry. Mike Switzer interviews James Chappell, CEO of SCBIO in Greenville, SC.

Sparkleberry is in bloom now. Vaccinium arboreum (sparkleberry or farkleberry) is a species of Vaccinium native to the southeastern and south-central United States, from southern Virginia west to southeastern Nebraska, south to Florida and eastern Texas, and north to Illinois.

A listener in the Midlands reports an unusual sighting: a western tanager.The western tanager (Piranga ludoviciana), is a medium-sized American songbird. Formerly placed in the tanager family (Thraupidae), other members of its genus and it are classified in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae). The species's plumage and vocalizations are similar to other members of the cardinal family.

The rose-breasted grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus), colloquially called "cut-throat" due to its coloration, is a large, seed-eating grosbeak in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae). It is primarily a foliage gleaner.[4] Males have black heads, wings, backs, and tails, and a bright rose colored patch on their white breast. Males and females exhibit marked sexual dimorphism.Breeding habitat consists of cool-temperate open deciduous woods throughout much of eastern North America, with migration to tropical America in winter.

"S" is for Smyth, Ellison Adger (1847-1942).

If there are such things as “good pieces” or “great pieces,” then there must also be such things as bad pieces.

Under the heading “Real Musical Understanding,” here’s something that Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote in 1910...