Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, The first concert of the Beaufort Symphony Orchestra’s 2022-2023 Season was on October 9, 2022, at 4:00 p.m. at the Beaufort High School Performing Arts Center, 84 Sea Island Parkway, Beaufort, SC 29907. We have received many compliments on the young soloist and the entire concert. (Photos courtesy of Bob Sofaly, October 2022) The next concert will be on Sunday, January 29, 2023, at the Beaufort High School Performing Arts Center. We are excited to have piano soloist and Steinway Artist Susan Merdinger perform again with the Orchestra. She will perform the Tchaikovsky Piano...

Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, On Sunday, February 13, 2022, at 4:00 pm, the Beaufort Symphony Orchestra will perform its 2022 February concert “Give My Regards to Broadway” at the Sea Island Presbyterian Church, 81 Lady’s Island Drive, Lady’s Island, SC 29907. The program will include tunes from Broadway shows such as “The Sound of Music,” “My Fair Lady,” “Les Misérables,” “The Phantom of the Opera,” “West Side Story” and “Wicked.” In preparation for our February concert, we offer the music from the musical West Side Story. The recording is from the BSO's March 2017 concert and on YouTube: BSO...

Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, This week’s music offering is a medley from the musical Chicago performed by the BSO String Orchestra at its second livestream concert on May 16, 2021, that was broadcast from the Carolina Ballroom at the Dataw Island Club. The recording is on YouTube: BSO Strings perform Chicago. The words are by Fred Ebb, the music by John Kander and the arrangement by Ted Ricketts. The medley includes “And All That Jazz,” “Cell Block Tango,” “Roxie” and “We Both Reached for the Gun.” About the music, Maestro Fred Devyatkin writes, “Chicago opened on Broadway in...