Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, Happy Thanksgiving! This week’s musical offering is the Second Movement, or Adagio, ma non troppo, of the Cello Concerto by Antonin Dvořák. The recording is from a concert by the BSO in February 2017 and is on YouTube: BSO plays Dvorak Cello Concerto, 2nd Movement. The cello soloist is Irena Josifoska, who was 20 years old then. We heard the First Movement of the Cello Concerto earlier this year, in the newsletter of July 3. About the music, Maestro Fred Devyatkin writes, “Dvorak hesitated composing his Cello Concerto for many years. Then, upon hearing Victor...

Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, Our 13th offering is an orchestral medley from the musical West Side Story. Leonard Bernstein composed the music. The recording is from a concert by the BSO in March 2017 and is on YouTube: BSO plays West Side Story. The medley incorporates music from the songs “I Feel Pretty,” “Maria,” “Something's Coming,” “Tonight,” “One Hand, One Heart,” “Cool” and “America.” About the musical, Maestro Fred Devyatkin writes, “Music from West Side Story. Leonard Bernstein shows he is as much a master of the popular medium as he is at conducting Beethoven or Mahler. Enjoy!”...

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...