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If you see a timpanist bending over his instrument during a concert with his ear close to the drumheads, it’s because timpanists often have to tune their drums to different pitches while everybody else is playing.

If you see a timpanist bending over his instrument during a concert with his ear close to the drumheads, it’s because timpanists often have to tune their drums to different pitches while everybody else is playing.

Ravel borrowed dance rhythms from Spain, from Austria, and from America, by way of jazz.

Although they had similar training and came under many of the same influences, Debussy's and Ravel's musical styles and techniques were really quite different.

"...he imbued it with a wealth of free fantasy so limitless that it still astonishes us..."

“F” is for Fenwick Hall (Johns Island)

Today’s audio comes from the recent ‘Investing in Sustainability Webinar Series’ hosted by The Nature Conversancy and Sustain SC, which was funded by the Bridgestone Americas Trust Fund.Mike Switzer was the moderator for this event and today’s excerpt comes from his conversation with Mike Grainey, vice president of global development with the Charleston Regional Development Alliance.

Today’s audio comes from the recent ‘Investing in Sustainability Webinar Series’ hosted by The Nature Conversancy and Sustain SC, which was funded by the Bridgestone Americas Trust Fund.Mike Switzer was the moderator for this event and today’s excerpt comes from his conversation with Taylor Jackson, director of SC Logistics at the South Carolina Council on Competitiveness.

What were once known as black ratsnakes are now called eastern ratsnakes. Yellow ratsnakes are a sub species.

Most millipedes have very elongated cylindrical or flattened bodies with more than 20 segments. Although the name "millipede" derives from the Latin for "thousand feet", no known species has 1,000; the record of 750 legs belongs to Illacme plenipes.