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Outdoor concerts can be delightful, especially when the music and the natural surroundings make a perfect mix. Then again, when you’re playing outdoors, things sometimes happen that wouldn’t ever happen in the concert hall—and I’m not just talking about thunderstorms.

Your strange job as a performing artist—musician, actor, or dancer—is to immerse yourself completely in the work of art you’re performing—to lose yourself, in a sense—and yet at all times to remain aware of precisely what you’re doing and how you’re doing it. It’s not easy, and sometimes the process—which is complicated to begin with—becomes downright mysterious.

“Program music” is instrumental music that attempts to tell a story, paint a scene or picture, or convey impressions of a character, place, or event. But no matter how sonically descriptive, music is always open to a range of interpretations—sometimes far removed from the composer’s intentions—and no two people will ever hear the same work in exactly the same way.

Pantherophis alleghaniensis, commonly called the eastern ratsnake, is a nonvenomous colubrid species endemic to North America.

Through his nonprofit organization dedicated to young adult empowerment, our next guest reached an agreement last year with Proctor and Gamble to help launch the research careers of aspiring, scientifically-minded students in the Lowcountry. Mike Switzer interviews LJ Bush, founder of Changing Our Image Now (COIN) in Bluffton, SC.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Sarah Miller about research related to the use of digital technology to help patients manage COPD. Dr. Miller is a respiratory physiologist and Nurse Scientist in the College of Nursing at MUSC.

Most people are aware by now that our state has built and continues to build pretty impressive industries in automotive and aerospace. Our next guest is an example of one of the many cogs in those wheels that keeps growing and expanding. Mike Switzer interviews Matt Kelley, CEO of Kelley Engineering in Piedmont, SC.

As the economy has rebounded from the pandemic, commercial architects have been staying very busy keeping up with the demand for new projects all across the country. And with federal infrastructure money now winding its way through various pipelines, that demand is projected to stay strong. Mike Switzer interviews Brian Thomas, CEO of DP3 Architects in Greenville, SC.

When the Internet gave rise to spam email and pop-up ads, many experts forecast the end of old-fashioned direct mail marketing. However, you’ve probably noticed that it still finds its way to your old-fashioned mailbox. Our next guest says that the right analytics is what still keeps it alive. Mike Switzer interviews Steve Godwin, president of Analytic Marketing Partners in Greenville, SC.

The pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) is a large, mostly black woodpecker native to North America. An insectivore, it inhabits deciduous forests in eastern North America, the Great Lakes, the boreal forests of Canada, and parts of the Pacific Coast. It is the largest extant woodpecker species in North America, with the possible exception of the ivory-billed woodpecker, which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed be reclassified as extinct. It is also the third largest species of woodpecker in the world, after the great slaty woodpecker and the black woodpecker. "Pileated" refers to the bird's prominent red crest, from the Latin pileatus meaning "capped".