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Clemson Extension Agent Amanda McNulty and host of Making It Grow is joined by Davis Sanders from South Pleasantburg Nursery in Greenville, SC. This chat…

I play concerts for a living, so you wouldn’t think I’d need reminding of the dramatic difference between listening to a recording and hearing a live…

In the bad old days of symphony orchestras in this country, music directors were absolute dictators, and orchestra musicians had few protections. If a…

Today I thought we’d take a metallurgical tour of the orchestra. The bars, for example, of glockenspiels and celestas are made of steel. So are some of…

Mozart, they say, could compose music while he was playing billiards. Rossini wrote that he had once composed an overture while standing in the water…

Jean Sibelius was a fascinating man. He was born the year the American Civil War ended and he died in the year of Sputnik. He was a prolific composer—in…

There’s very little that’s natural about the physical positions and movements that are required to play most musical instruments, and during the course of…

For centuries, composers of classical music have been borrowing and adapting ideas and styles from popular music. Renaissance composers, for example,…

Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. Last week we got out the wool blankets, fortunately I haven’t seen any new…

Clemson Extension and Making It Grow Amanda McNulty talks with fellow agent Paul Thompson about vines. Part 2 (Wisterias, Honeysuckles).MIG Extra 18