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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.

“R” is for Ravenel, Harriott Horry Rutledge (1832-1912). Novelist, biographer, historian.

“S” is for St. Mark’s Parish.

A listener reports seeing a lunar moth that has just emerged from the cocoon. The Luna moth (Actias luna) is a Nearctic moth in the family Saturniidae, subfamily Saturniinae, a group commonly known as giant silk moths.

This edition of the South Carolina Lede for September 21, 2021, features: a discussion about equity and infrastructure investment as Congress returns to take up trillions of dollars in spending; new data from Pfizer about giving young children its COVID-19 vaccine; and DHEC's Dr. Brannon Traxler on how the Palmetto State is handling the recent surge of the Delta variant.