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, This week’s musical offering is the 2nd Movement, or Vivace non troppo, of Symphony No. 3 composed by Felix Mendelssohn (1842). The symphony is popularly known as the Scottish Symphony inspired by a visit to the ruins of Holyrood Chapel at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland. The recording is from a concert by the BSO in March 2016 and is on YouTube: BSO plays the Mendelssohn Scottish Symphony, 2nd Movement. About the music, Maestro Fred Devyatkin writes, “Felix Mendelssohn was inspired by his travels to Scotland to write this masterpiece. A classicist in romantic...