Connie Robinette

Against the sound of a lone jazz piano played by Columbia, SC local Brian Honess, Spoleto host Bob Edwards reminds us that jazz is uniquely American music and that has its place on the Spoleto stage alongside operas and concertos. Edwards notes that jazz is music that makes...

Host Bob Edwards observes that chamber music is conversational and elegant music fit for a place like The Dock Street Theater which was built 20 years before Mozart was born. Co-Directors Paula Robison and Scott Nickrenz describe how they plan their musical menus as if they...

The tape vault gives us a gift from the past with this 1988 interview with Gian Carlo Menotti,festival founder and artistic director of Spoleto. While Menotti says that he is continuing in his role at Spoleto, he is working on a succession plan to keep the program going. He...

In 1972, we find Kenny Rogers and his band, The First Edition, on tour, riding a Greyhound Bus with an ETV production crew in tow. Kenny observed that he tended to get more attention than the other members of the band and the TV production gives each member an opportunity to...

Charlestown, now Charleston, was the primary port of call for slave ships and there was a time when slaves were in the majority in parts of the Lowcountry. Connections takes us on a journey from the Lowcountry to the Upstate, highlighting important Black History sites. First...

What do you think of when you hear the phrase “Uncle Tom?” Harriet Beecher Stowe published the novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" on March 28, 1852. It was said that when Harriet Beecher Stowe met Abraham Lincoln, he said “So, you are the little woman who wrote the book that started...