Sonatas and Soundscapes
News & Music Stations: Mon - Thu, 11 am - 1 pm; Fri, 11 am - 12 pm
Sonatas and Soundscapes explores the diverse and colorful range of classical (and not-so-classical) music. Every weekday host Bradley Fuller programs instrumental music from history’s repertoire—everything from baroque to experimentalism.
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Outdoor Performance of Composer's Nature-Inspired Work for Multiple Bassoons Scheduled for Saturday, April 10th -
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was only in his early twenties and not long graduated from the Royal College of Music when his cantata Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast…
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Musical talent has a way of bringing families together. The stories of Wolfgang and Nannerl Mozart, Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, the Labèque sisters,…
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Launched in Charleston in 2013, the Colour of Music Festival continues to highlight Black classical artistry and musicianship even as it has expanded well…
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“The first thing to get past is the scowl,” writes Mark Evan Bonds in Beethoven: Variations on a Life. Bonds, who is a professor of musicology at the…
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Beginning Friday, May 22, South Carolina Public Radio is proud to present special Spoleto Festival USA programming as part of a new “Spoleto at Home”…
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Note on April 2, 2020: If "musical equivalent of a particle accelerator" didn't give it away—this story was an April Fools' joke. In Plato’s Republic,…
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Not long after his arrival in Vienna in late 1792, a young Ludwig van Beethoven was beginning to make an impression in the musical city. The Austrian…
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It’s not the harpsichord just inside the entryway of the Carolina Music Museum that comes as such a surprise, but the sign on top of it. “Play Me,” it…
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Late nights are a frustrating fact of life for many musicians. Too often, the time after sundown is all that remains for performing, practicing, working…
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Those who insist that speaking about music is akin to dancing about architecture would do well to take a few preliminary steps with Columbia-based…
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Paul Wiancko started playing cello at age five. By age eight, he had composed his first piece of music.“If you can call it a piece,” Wiancko says. “I…
