Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, The Beaufort Symphony Orchestra board is excited and happy to announce the concert schedule for the 2021-2022 Season and the Orchestra’s return to performing at the Sea Island Presbyterian Church. We plan four concerts featuring Happy 250th Birthday Beethoven Coriolan Overture Symphony No. 6 in F Sunday, October 10, 2021, 4:00 pm Homegrown Holiday! Vivaldi Double: Eden Engel & Elyse Stromer Holiday Pops Sunday, December 12, 2021, 4:00 pm Give My Regards to Broadway The Great Show Tunes Sunday, February 13, 2022, 4:00 pm Romantic Blockbusters Bruch...
BSO plays My Fair Lady
Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, This week’s musical offering is My Fair Lady (1956). The music was composed by Frederick Loewe. The recording is from a concert by the BSO in February 2019 and is on YouTube: BSO plays My Fair Lady. About the music, Maestro Fred Devyatkin writes, “Based on the George Bernard Shaw play, Pygmalion, My Fair Lady was one huge success among several for composer Frederick Loewe and lyricist, Jay Lerner. Premiering on Broadway and in London in 1956, they won a Tony for the year’s best musical. The film adaptation was released in 1964, winning...
BSO plays A Chorus Line
Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, This week’s musical offering is A Chorus Line. The music was composed by Marvin Frederick Hamlisch. The recording is from a concert by the BSO in February 2019 and is on YouTube: BSO plays A Chorus Line. About the music, Maestro Fred Devyatkin writes, “Marvin Hamlisch is one of only two people to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony and a Pulitzer Prize (the other being Richard Rodgers, who we featured a few weeks ago). In a performance from February, 2019, the BSO gives a rousing rendition (encore included) of music from “A Chorus...