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Have you ever wondered how the violin came to play such an important role in the history of classical music? Well, it starts with singing. The invention of opera, in late 16th century Florence, marks...
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Yesterday I talked about vibrato, the technique that string players use—rocking the fingers of their left hands back and forth to create small oscillations in pitch that result in a warmer, more...
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The clarinet was the last of the principal woodwind instruments to join the orchestra. The modern clarinet evolved from earlier forms in the early 1700's—later than the modern oboe, bassoon, and flute...
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Serenade is one of those musical terms that has meant many different things at many different times. The term itself comes from the Italian sereno, which is from the Latin serenus, which means “serene...
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Host Miles Hoffman discusses the different variations on the story of Romeo and Juliet.
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On January 2, 1881, the Spanish violinist Pablo de Sarasate was in Paris to play the premiere of the Violin Concerto No. 3 by Camille Saint-Saëns.
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The harpsichord, the keyboard workhorse of the Baroque period, is an instrument with a problem: varying the touch on the keys has absolutely no effect on volume or tone quality. Depress a key gently...
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Known as the “Charleston Bird Lady,” Anne Worsham Richardson (1919-2012), renowned wildlife artist, was sometimes dubbed the Audubon of her time. No other South Carolinian has done more to portray the...
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Dr. Walker Gill Wylie (1848–1923) was a surgeon and civil engineer—who developed operational procedures for the nation’s hospitals, organized the first nursing school at Bellevue Hospital, New York...
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Host Ray Davis with the South Carolina Department of Education talks with experts in varying Career Clusters about the future of jobs in those fields in South Carolina.
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Host Ray Davis with the South Carolina Department of Education talks with experts in varying Career Clusters about the future of jobs in those fields in South Carolina.
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Host Ray Davis with the South Carolina Department of Education talks with experts in varying Career Clusters about the future of jobs in those fields in South Carolina.
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Host Ray Davis with the South Carolina Department of Education talks with experts in varying Career Clusters about the future of jobs in those fields in South Carolina.
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Host Ray Davis with the South Carolina Department of Education talks with experts in varying Career Clusters about the future of jobs in those fields in South Carolina.
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Host Ray Davis with the South Carolina Department of Education talks with experts in varying Career Clusters about the future of jobs in those fields in South Carolina.
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Host Ray Davis with the South Carolina Department of Education talks with experts in varying Career Clusters about the future of jobs in those fields in South Carolina.
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The ETV Stock Market Program - These five lessons are NEW for fall and provide information on economics and the stock market to accompany the SC Council on Economic Education's game that students...
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The lesson will be concerned with the musical elements which go into a production.
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Art work that is one of a kind is scarce. Space, time and simple possessions can also be scarce. Dr. Dave helps Herschel to understand.
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There are 3 productive resources: natural resource, human resource and capital resource. Herschel's World of Economics helps you to understand the difference.
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A person who makes goods or provides services is a producer. Someone who buys and uses goods and services is a consumer. Teachers and students give many examples of both in this episode.
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This lesson is an introduction to The Magical Theater of Music. Little advance preparation is necessary for the viewing. Since the generic name "opera" has pejorative connotations in the minds of many...
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Opportunity cost is what you give up when you make a choice. It is also the highest-valued alternative you give up when you make a choice. Scarcity comes in to play when Herschel has an opportunity...
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This final lesson is a continuation of The Magical Theater of Music and the finale or conclusion. It is a condensed 3O-minute performance of Domenico Cimarosa's comic opera, "The Secret Marriage."...
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Lesson three is a continuation of The Magical Theater of Music and will be concerned with the elements which make up a "stage setting"--the style and design of the stage set, its construction and its...
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Lesson four is concerned with costuming the singers and the use of wigs and special stage make-up.
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Dr. Thompson details South Carolinian composers and publishers during the Civil War. One such composer was from Columbia: Lizzie C. Orchard, and Dr. Thompson plays an excerpt from “Major General Wade...
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Dr. Thompson goes into how many composers during the Civil War would write variations on classic songs during the period. He plays several examples of arrangements of “The Bonnie Blue Flag,” and...
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When homes were requisitioned for use as field hospitals during the Civil War, parlors and pianos were converted to serve purposes outside their intended uses.
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Dr. Thompson explains how families loved their pianos, and often-times, pianos would be center-pieces in peoples' lives.