Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, This week’s musical offering is My Fair Lady (1956). The music was composed by Frederick Loewe. The recording is from a concert by the BSO in February 2019 and is on YouTube: BSO plays My Fair Lady. About the music, Maestro Fred Devyatkin writes, “Based on the George Bernard Shaw play, Pygmalion, My Fair Lady was one huge success among several for composer Frederick Loewe and lyricist, Jay Lerner. Premiering on Broadway and in London in 1956, they won a Tony for the year’s best musical. The film adaptation was released in 1964, winning...

Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, Our ninth offering is the second movement from Symphony No. 101 in D major (1793-1794) by Austrian composer Franz Josef Haydn from a concert by the BSO in October 2018. The symphony is also known as “The Clock” symphony because of the "ticking" rhythm throughout its second movement. The recording is on YouTube: BSO plays Haydn Symphony No. 101, 2nd or "Clock" Movement. About the symphony, Maestro Fred Devyatkin writes, “A late work of Franz Josef from his collection of London Symphonies. His genius is in full bloom. This movement had the tick-tock that...