Dear Music Lovers and Supporters! The Beaufort Symphony Orchestra has launched a Go Fund Me campaign to support its adult and youth orchestras as well as the Prodigy Project, which was established to provide young, superstar musicians with the opportunity to solo for a professional orchestra. Link to the Go Fund Me campaign. Thank you to everyone who has donated to the Beaufort Symphony Orchestra. We are grateful for your consideration and generosity. Sincerely, Entire BSO Board & Musicians

Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, In addition to presenting recordings from Beaufort Symphony Orchestra concerts, our goal is to introduce other works not yet performed by the BSO. Our eighth offering is the Symphony No. 1 in E minor (1931-1932) by the African-American composer Florence Beatrice (née Smith) Price. A recording of the symphony is on YouTube: Florence Price: Symphony No. 1 in E minor, performed by the New Black Repertory Ensemble, Leslie B. Dunner, conducting. Florence Price (b: April 9, 1887, d: June 3, 1953) was the first African-American woman composer to have a symphonic composition played...

Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, In memory of Arthur “Art” Tollefson, who died on Friday, July 24, 2020, our seventh offerings are recordings of the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto in G Minor from a concert by the BSO in 2012 and the Beethoven Sonata in C Minor for Piano & Violin: Scherzo & Finale from 2014. Art was the piano soloist in the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto. Art played the piano with Fred Devyatkin in the Beethoven Sonata. The recordings are on YouTube: BSO playing Mendelssohn Piano Concerto in G Minor and Beethoven Sonata in C Minor for Piano &...