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“P” is for Palmetto Pigeon Plant.

“R” is for Ravenel, Beatrice (18790-1956). Poet, journalist.

On this episode of Spoleto Backstage, we present a world premiere performance by oboist James Austin Smith. He joins us to share the backstory of the piece by composer Sigfried Thiele, discuss life as a musician during the pandemic, and celebrate his return to Spoleto Festival USA.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Jameela Goudarzi about incorporating self-care into daily life to promote health & wellbeing. Ms. Goudarzi is Family Nurse Practitioner at MUSC.

The clarinet was the last of the principal woodwind instruments to join the orchestra. The modern clarinet evolved from earlier forms in the early 1700's—later than the modern oboe, bassoon, and flute—and it wasn’t until late in the century that orchestral composers included the clarinet in their scores with any regularity.

There’s an old joke about the husband who’s been out late drinking, and when his wife asks him where he’s been, he latches onto a word he saw on the cover…

On this episode of Spoleto Backstage, we continue our series spotlighting the First Viennese School composers with three of Ludwig van Beethoven's works, one from each of the stylistic periods in which his works are often categorized. We're also joined by bassoonist Monica Ellis, founding member of the quintet Imani Winds, to chat about performing in one of these pieces as well as Alicia Hall and Jason Moran's "Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration" at this year's Spoleto Festival USA.

General U.S. history courses in many high schools depict the American Revolutionary War as a series of battles in the Northeast - Lexington, Concord, Bunker Hill, etc. - that lead inexorably to British General Charles Cornwallis's surrender of 8,000 British soldiers and seamen to a French and American force at Yorktown, Virginia, October 19, 1781. The truth is much more complicated, of course. A major component of the war, one that paved the way to Yorktown, was the fighting that took place in 1780 - 81 in the South - especially in South Carolina. In essence, according to Dr. Jack Warren and Dr. Walter Edgar, the war was won in the South.

One of the early challenges identified by the pandemic was the lack of broadband availability across the rural areas of our country and state. Our next guest has been busy working on that issue and says significant progress is being made to alleviate it.Mike Swutzer interviews Jim Stritzinger, broadband coordinator for South Carolina’s Office of Regulatory Staff in Columbia, SC.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. James Hill about detecting certain eye diseases, in the early stages, with a comprehensive eye exam. Dr. Hill is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Medical Director of Optical Services at MUSC.