Spoleto Today talks to Spoleto Festival USA’s contemporary music tastemaker John Kennedy on this morning’s show. Plus, the Spoleto Chamber Music series ventures into the world of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels with a piece from Georg Philip Telemann. The Post & Courier’s Jack McCray stops by, too, previewing a weekend of Jazz Legends in Charleston.

On Carolina Classics, hear the terrific new acoustics of the freshly-refurbished Dock Street Theatre, with performances from the Chamber Music Series’ 2010 Opening Day.

Catch Spoleto Today at 11 a.m. and Carolina Classics at 1 p.m. on WSCI-FM Charleston 89.3.  Or visit SpoletoFest.org for live streaming, videos, podcasts and more! Brought to you by SCETV Radio and WDAV Classical Public Radio.

On today’s edition of Spoleto Today, new director Geoff Nuttall shares his vision for Spoleto’s chamber music future, front and backstage at the newly restored Dock Street Theatre. The fascinating Polish pianist Leszek Mozdzer – whose musical territory ranges from Miles Davis to Fredryk Chopin — stops by to play. And the Post & Courier’s Jack McCray outlines what’s hot — and not — at Spoleto.
Join hosts Marcus Overton and Jennifer Foster for Spoleto Today — every weekday at 11 a.m. — and Carolina Classics, weekdays at 1 p.m. Tune in on WSCI-FM Charleston 89.3 and visit SpoletoFest.org for live streaming, videos, podcasts and more. Brought to you by SCETV Radio and WDAV Classical Public Radio.

Regional radio coverage of the Spoleto Festival continues this morning as Spoleto Today takes you behind the scenes of the 2010 Spoleto and Piccolo Spoleto festivals. On today’s program, a visit to the remarkable Colla Marionette Company, presenting live opera with plenty of strings attached. Plus conductor Emmanuel Villaume shares his approach to creating ‘French-style explosions’ on the podium with the Spoleto Festival Orchestra. Post and Courier critic Jack McCray also previews the jazz week ahead.
On Carolina Classics are performances by some of Spoleto’s most anticipated performers: soprano Dawn Upshaw, cellist Alisa Weilerstein, and violinist Daniel Phillips. Plus a reunion on the podium for Carolinas conducting legend Henry Janiec.
Join hosts Marcus Overton and Jennifer Foster for Spoleto Today — every weekday at 11 a.m. — and Carolina Classics, weekdays at 1 p.m. Tune in on WSCI-FM Charleston 89.3 and visit SpoletoFest.org for live streaming, videos, podcasts and more. Brought to you by SCETV Radio and WDAV Classical Public Radio.

On Spoleto Today with Marc Overton & Jennifer Foster this morning at 11 on WSCI-FM 89.3 in Charleston:
Joseph Flummerfelt, Spoleto Festival USA’s artistic director for choral activities, sings the praises of Spoleto’s choral tradition;

Make a pilgrimage to the vaunted Mepkin Abbey to hear Charleston Symphony oboist Mark Gainer perform Marcello’s Oboe Concerto;

Piccolo Spoleto Director Ellen Moryl assesses this year’s festival at the box office and talks about some of the festival’s special programs, including A World of Jewish Culture;

And Post and Courier jazz critic Jack McCray offers reviews and insights on the jazz offerings on tap for Spoleto’s final few days.

On today’s Carolina Classics with Jennifer Foster at 1 p.m.:
Listen to the complete Wadsworth and Friends: A Musical Celebration, the birthday party/tribute concert recorded last Sunday evening from Memminger Auditorium.

Join the Spoleto Today team today at 3 p.m. at Sermet’s Restaurant at the corner of King and Wentworth Streets. Marc Overton, Jennifer Foster and the rest of the ETV/WDAV radio team will be on hand to talk about Spoleto, music, the arts and all things Charleston.

Make a date to tune in tonight at 8 when ETV Radio and WDAV Classical Public Radio present a Spoleto Festival Special: The Song of the Earth. Emmanuel Villaume conducts the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra.

For streaming audio go online to http://www.spoletochambermusic.org

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If you’ve been following us, you know by now that Spoleto Today on the radio has partnered with ETV and The Post and Courier to give you bits and sounds from Spoleto Festival USA and Piccolo Spoleto. We at The Post and Courier - meaning Tim Page, Jack McCray and Adam Parker - occasionally show up on the radio to tell you what we are excited about seeing.

On Spoleto Today with Marc Overton & Jennifer Foster starting at 11 a.m. on WSCI-FM 89.3 in Charleston or online at www.spoletochambermusic.org will be talking about:

When mandolinist Chris Thiele talks, we stop to listen, because the subject could be anything: Bluegrass, New Grass, Beethoven, Bartok … or Daniel Barenboim and the Berlin Philharmonic.

Go behind the scenes and onstage to the big weekend bash for Spoleto’s Chamber Music Man, Charles Wadsworth.

And on Carolina Classics with Jennifer Foster in the afternoon:

It’s another complete concert from the 2009 Spoleto Chamber Music series. We’ll take you to Memminger Auditorium to hear one of Beethoven’s great masterworks, the ‘Kreutzer’ sonata, played by violinist Chee-Yun and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott. And don’t miss Franz Schubert’s haunting elegy for clarinet, voice and piano, ‘The Shepherd on the Rock.’

Spoleto Today is on the radio starting at 11 a.m. at WSCI-FM 89.3:

Host Marc Overton sits down with Jack Terricloth, star of ‘Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre’s 20th Century,’ to talk about Kurt Weill, Berthold Brecht, Peter Lorre and loud music.
Westminster Choir conductor Andrew Megill and host Jennifer Foster discuss Bach, Buxtehude and choral music.
Flutist Tara Helen O’Connor and viola/violinist Daniel Phillips talk about playing great chamber music together — and managing a successful classical-music marriage.

On today’s Carolina Classics:

Listen to the first program of this year’s Spoleto Chamber Music series. You’ll hear Bach’s Trio Sonata in C Major, featuring Daniel Philips, Tara Helen O’Connor, Alisa Weilerstein and Charles Wadsworth.
Saint-Saen’s Le Bonheur et chose legere with Courtenay Budd, Chee-Yun and Wadsworth
Amy Beach’s Chason D’Amour performed by Budd, Weilerstein and Wadsworth and more.

Missed a program? Go online to: http://www.spoletochambermusic.org
for streaming audio.

On Wednesday’s Spoleto Today:

Marc Overton talks to Spoleto’s contemporary music expert John Kennedy.
We’ll hear the intriguing sound of alternatively-tuned pianos from composer-performer Michael  Harrison.
Jennifer Foster chats with Alisa Weilerstein about her Spoleto chamber music experiences.
Chee-Yun, Alisa Weilerstein and Anne-Marie McDermott perform Mendelssohn’s ‘Piano Trio in D minor’ from Tuesday’s chamber music concert.

Listen at WSCI-FM 89.3 in Charleston or online at www.spoletochambermusic.org, beginning at 11 a.m.