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In 1950 a musicologist named Wolfgang Schmieder published an enormous catalogue of J.S. Bach’s works, but Schmieder organized it by category, that is, by…

Goldenrod happens to bloom when some of us have start having hay fever – the real culprit this time of year is ragweed.

I find it fascinating that many of the greatest composers of the 19th century—composers such as Berlioz, Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Brahms,…

For Leon Banov, preventive medicine and the health of Charleston’s poor and working-class citizens were the primary mission of his long and distinguished career.

In 1951 when Judge Waring gave a ringing dissent in federal court in the case of Briggs v. Elliott, he declared that segregation was “per se inequality.”

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.

“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

Pizzicato is the Italian word for “plucked.” To play pizzicato on a stringed instrument means to make the notes sound by plucking the strings with the fingers, rather than by using the bow.

“P” is for Parish, Margaret Cecile (1927-1988). Author.

“O” is for Opera houses. In the period between 1880 and 1920, opera houses flourished in communities across South Carolina.