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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Ahead of his first time conducting the full opera, Charleston Opera Theater Music Director Wojciech Milewski gives insights into the Puccini masterwork that ignited his passion for the art form.
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The orchestra's opening weekend is not only going on as planned in the wake of Helene, but expanding to include an outdoor broadcast. As Greenville Symphony Executive Director Jessica Satava and Music Director Lee Mills share, Beethoven's landmark Symphony No. 9 is a work of music that promises to resonate powerfully with a hard-hit community.
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Recently appointed Music Director of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, the 37-year-old conductor is excited to showcase what he sees as a gem of an organization and build community through the arts.
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With its 22nd season underway, the Southeastern Piano Festival is once again drawing a range of acclaimed performers and up-and-coming teenage competitors to the University of South Carolina for a week of concerts, master classes, and other events.
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At the start of his first season as the festival's Director of Chamber Music, cellist and composer Paul Wiancko seeks a meeting place of "musical universes" at Charleston's Dock Street Theatre.
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Ahead of her appearance with the South Carolina Philharmonic on Saturday for a concert marking the centennial of Rhapsody in Blue, Downes reflects on the scope and legacy of George Gershwin's most iconic work.
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The keyboard instrument’s collaborative side is set to be showcased in a range of performances at this year’s BravoPiano! Festival, presented by the Hilton Head International Piano Competition.
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The renowned bassist and rising violinist prepare to take the stage at Johnson Hall on Saturday for a performance featuring a duo the father-son team wrote together and other selections of a not-quite-so-classical sort—including fiddle tunes.
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The original version of Edmund Thornton Jenkins’ Lowcountry-inspired orchestral rhapsody is set to be performed for the first time in the composer’s home state on Saturday, part of a Gaillard Center presentation culminating the Colour of Music Festival's Black History Month Concert Series.
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Musicians from the University of South Carolina's Wind Ensemble and Experimental Music Workshop are set to sonically transform the museum for the premiere of a "poetic recreation of natural environments" by composer Michael Pisaro-Liu.
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Carrie Allen Tipton's From Dixie to Rocky Top: Music and Meaning in Southeastern Conference Football is a dive into a previously-neglected area of musicological research: the origins and cultural significance of some of the most recognizable tunes in the "football-haunted" South.
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The 22-year-old pianist and Honens prizewinner is back in South Carolina, excited for the chance to take on two formidable piano concertos in a single program.