Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, This week’s music offering is the Lady Gaga Hit Mix 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 Lady Gaga Hit Mix. The words and music are by Stefani Germanotta and co-workers and the arrangement is by Larry Moore. The song lineup is “Poker Face,” “Bad Romance” and “Just Dance.” About the music, Maestro Fred Devyatkin writes, “Singer/songwriter Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta has us all tapping our toes to her hits. Better...

Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, This week’s music offering is The Polovtsian Dances by Alexander Borodin. The Polovtsian Dances form the final scene in Act 2 of Borodin’s opera Prince Igor. The recording is from a concert by the BSO in May 2015 and is on YouTube: BSO plays Borodin: Polovtsian Dances. About the music, Maestro Fred Devyatkin writes, “Alexander Borodin was one of the world’s most famous chemists of his day. His compositions have had such lasting appeal that now his reputation as a musical genius has superseded his medical fame. As the keynote speaker at a symposium in...