Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, This week’s music offering is Warrior Legacy from the BSO’s first livestream concert on March 14, 2021, that was broadcast from the Carolina Ballroom at the Dataw Island Club. The recording is on YouTube: BSO Strings perform Warrior Legacy. The music is by Soon Hee Newbold. About the music, Maestro Fred Devyatkin writes, “Soon Hee Newbold began composing for her students, earning great admiration in the educational community. Subsequently expanding her efforts to the professional motion picture industry, Soon Hee has trail blazed for female composers with her exciting melodies and dramatic settings exemplified...

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...

Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, This week’s musical offering is the 2nd Movement, or Romanze, of the Piano Concerto No. 1, composed by Frédéric Chopin (1830). The recording is from a concert by the BSO in May 2017 and is on YouTube: BSO plays the Chopin Piano Concerto No 1, Romanze. The piano soloist is Nadia Azzi. About the music, Maestro Fred Devyatkin writes, “Chopin’s masterwork, the 1st Piano Concerto, 2nd Movement. But for reserving the overwhelming bulk of his compositions exclusively for the piano, the Pole turned Frenchman would be considered a composer of the first rank. This,...