• Marc Overton comments on what has remained a constant and a sort of “artistic glue” throughout the duration of both the American and Italian Spoleto Festivals.
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• Host Jennifer Foster chats with Artistic Director for choral music and conductor Joseph Flummerfelt about his involvement with the choral curriculum at Spoleto.
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• Festival director Ellen Moryl speaks about a surprise in this year’s Piccolo festival regarding attendance. Marc Overton and Jennifer Foster remark about their observations of Jewish influences in this year’s festival and provide examples.
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• NPR Producer Benjamin Roe interviews Jack McCray, a columnist focusing on most of the Jazz and some of the pop performances of the festival.
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• Marc Overton describes the religious and musical atmosphere surrounding Charleston’s Mepkin Abbey. Here, Charleston Symphony Orchestra’s principle oboist Mark Gainer performs Alessandro Marcello’s Concerto in D minor.
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• Overtones: Marc Overton comments on Charleston’s Catfish Row and how George Gershwin found it.
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• Hosts Marc Overton and Jennifer Foster discuss the church music scene in Charleston, South Carolina.
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• Host Jennifer Foster chats with College of Charleston Director of Choral Programs Rob Taylor about the choirs he is conducting at this year's Piccolo Spoleto festival. We'll hear Brian Galante's Ave Maria and A Clear Midnight from his Taylor Festival Singers.
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• Host Marc Overton takes a turn with Joan Singer, founder of Quintango, as they discuss that group's ten-year evolution at Spoleto. This is followed by Ástor Piazzolla's Adios Nonino performed by QuinTango.
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• Host Marc Overton talks about the Young Artist Series at Piccolo Spoleto.
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• Jennifer Foster interviews violinist Chee-Yun. She tells us why she loves playing in the Spoleto Chamber Music series. Then we hear a violin and piano arrangement of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story Suite performed by Chee-Yun.
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• Overtones: Marc Overton mentions his favorite parts and most disappointing parts about Spoleto so far.
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Hosts Marc Overton and Jennifer Foster chat about the renovations taking place at Gaillard Auditorium
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Jennifer Foster in conversation with violin virtuoso Sarah Chang, who reflects on performing the Brahms Violin Concerto (she calls it ‘The Everest’ of violin concertos) and growing up in public. Then her performance of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, mvt. 1.
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Marc Overton talks to master puppeteer Basil Twist about the ancient Japanese art that’s become a Spoleto sensation: “Dogugaeshi”
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At his 80th birthday gala tribute Sunday night, Charles Wadsworth reminisces from stage about his connection to the elegiac Pavane for a Dead Princess by Maurice Ravel. Wadsworth then accompanies violist Hsin-Yun Huang in an evocative performance recorded at Memminger Auditorium in Charleston.
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Jennifer Foster talks to Hawaiian ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro, whose weekend solo performance was one of the flat-out hits of the Spoleto season. Jake wows Jennifer and the Spoleto Today crew with his in-studio performances of his own composition “Piano-Forte” and his signature tune, George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”
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• Marc Overton suggests what to see over a May weekend in Charleston, South Carolina.
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• Overton interviews Jack Terricloth, lead vocalist of a postmodern cabaret about Hungarian Peter Lorre called “Addicted to Bad Ideas” performed at Spoleto this year.
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• J.S. Bach inspired an endless list of composers, but who inspired Bach? Jennifer Foster talks with Andrew Megill, conductor of the Westminster Choir and the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, about Dieterich Buxtehude, Bach’s inspiration, and a Spoleto performance of three movements of his Membra Jesu Nostri. The interview is followed by a recording of movement III.
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• Guest Washington Post and New York Times critic Tim Page comments on a particularly special concert at the Spoleto Festival and his expectations about subsequent ones.
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• Virtuoso mandolinist Chris Thiele briefly remarks on mandolin repertoire.
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• Marc Overton addresses theatre during the Piccolo Spoleto Festival.
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• Flutist Tara Helen O'Connor and viola/violinist Daniel Philips talk with Jennifer Foster about their marriage, musical communication, and of course playing great chamber music together. The interview is followed by a performance of the Flute Quartet in D Major by Mozart including O’Connor and Philips.
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• Overtones: Marc Overton remarks on why the Spoleto Festival must take place at one particular time of the year… and laundry in Charleston.
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• Hosts Marc Overton and Jennifer Foster chat about Charleston, South Carolina and its nickname, the “Holy City.” Subsequently, Foster announces and previews conductor Emmanuel Villaume’s Thursday night performance of Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde ("The Song of the Earth") by the Spoleto Festival Orchestra.
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• Marc Overton announces Piccolo Spoleto's three-day celebration of the life and poetry of James Dickey. His widow Deborah Dickey offers a reading of the late poet’s “The Lifeguard.” Next, Joseph Flummerfelt conducts Spoleto’s Westminster Choir in a beautiful rendition of Stephen Foster’s Beautiful Dreamer.
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• Founder of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Charles Wadsworth introduces a concerto for viola (Hsin-Yun Huang), strings, and harpsichord by Georg Philipp Telemann.
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• Critic Jack McCray discusses Italian musicians and their influence in the Jazz world. Next, Marc Overton interviews Italian Jazz pianist Ramberto Ciammarughi about his debut performance in the United States. Then, pianist Joseph Rackers performs Bach’s Prelude and Fugue #9 from Book II of The Well-Tempered Clavier.
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• Overtones: Hosts Marc Overton and Jennifer Foster converse about the audience at Spoleto and its nature as a group of critics.
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• Hosts Marc Overton and Jennifer Foster discuss the history of the Spoleto Festival’s contemporary music concerts and their unique original nickname. Marc interviews John Kennedy about the contemporary scene at Spoleto. To add to the contemporary music feel we’ll hear a piece titled Revelation for an alternatively-tuned piano by Michael Harrison.
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• Jennifer Foster interviews young, yet incredibly talented Alisa Wilerstein about her past and present as a cellist. Following the interview, Alisa performs some of the Popular Spanish Songs by Manuel de Falla with her mother Vivian Hornik Weilerstein.
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• Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Series at Spoleto, Charles Wadsworth introduces Felix Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in D minor.
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• Overtones: Host Marc Overton comments on his most bizarre experience at Spoleto.
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Nigel Redden and Wycliffe Gordon join Marc Overton and Jennifer Foster

- Marcus Overton and Jennifer Foster introduction
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- Sounds and sights from Spoleto’s Year of the Trombone, including a conversation with jazz virtuoso Wycliffe Gordon.
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- Spoleto General Director Nigel Redden shares his short list of “must see” performances
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- Pulitzer-prize winning critic Tim Page reviews the highs and lows of Spoleto’s opening weekend.
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- And we’ll find out how Spoleto Chamber Music director Charles Wadsworth celebrated his 80th birthday, and we’ll hear an Opening Day chamber performance recorded in concert at Memminger Auditorium in Charleston.
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- Marcus Overton's Overtones
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Jane Alexander; Charles Wadsworth; Andrew von Oeyen; Tierney Sutton; A prevew of the opera Louise; “Overtones” - Spoleto reflections from Marc Overton.

WDAV’s Jennifer Foster and ETV Radio’s Marc Overton discuss the opening of the 33rd Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, SC
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Jennifer Foster previews the Spoleto revival of Gustav Charpantier’s turn-of-the-century opera Louise, with commentary from conductor Emmanuel Villaume, stage director Sam Helfrich, and Spoleto General Director Nigel Redden.
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Marc Overton welcomes actress and former NEA chair Jane Alexander, who is on hand as an Opening Ceremony Speaker at the Spoleto Festival USA.
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Charleston Post and Courier jazz critic Jack McCray profiles and Marc Overton interviews singer Tierney Sutton, who’s opening Spoleto’s jazz series.
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This 2009 Spoleto Festival USA is a bittersweet moment for Spoleto Chamber Music director Charles Wadsworth, who is stepping down after this season. We’ll hear how Wadsworth and flutist Tara Helen O’Connor opened the 2008 Spoleto season: with his stage introduction and subsequent performance of Francis Poulenc’s Flute Sonata.
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Jennifer Foster introduces pianist Andrew von Oeyen, another Spoleto favorite whose interpretations belie his young age. Von Oyen discusses what makes Frederic Chopin a “wild card” among pianists, and we’ll hear him play the Etude in E, Op. 10, No. 3
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Overtones: In the first of a series, Marc Overton, who's worn practically every hat imaginable at the Spoleto Festival USA, shares Spoleto stories, legends, and tall tales with co-host Jennifer Foster. Today, why exactly hasn’t it ever rained on Spoleto’s Opening Day parade?
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