Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, It is a little more THREE (3) weeks until the FIRST concert of the Beaufort Symphony Orchestra’s 2022-2023 Season. Season tickets are $140.00 for adults and $60.00 for youth (K-12) and available at the Tix website at https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/beaufortorchestra/4060. The first concert on October 9, 2022, is “Immortal Beloved: The Romantic Beethoven.” We are excited to have violin soloist Lilyanne Thoroughman, who is sponsored by the Prodigy Project. Miss Thoroughman is 15 years old. She will be performing the Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61. The “Paganini's Cantabile, performed by Lilyanne Thoroughman...

Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, This week’s musical offering is the 1st Movement (Allegro maestoso – Tempo giusto) of the Violin Concerto No. 1, composed by Niccolò Paganini. The recording is from a concert by the BSO in March 2016 and is on YouTube: BSO plays the Paganini Violin Concerto in D, 1st Movement. The violin soloist is Tamás Kocsis. About the music, Maestro Fred Devyatkin writes, “Four years ago Tamás Kocsis performed the Paganini Violin Concerto in D with the BSO. A groundbreaking technical achievement, the Paganini continues to be a violinist’s tour de force and a vehicle...

Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, Our fourth offering is a recording of the First Movement of the Niccolo Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major from a concert by the BSO in February 2016 at the Sea Island Presbyterian Church. The soloist is Hungarian-born violinist Tamás Kocsis. The recording is on YouTube BSO playing Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major: 1st Movement. See Maestro Fred Devyatkin’s Commentary on YouTube. Violinist Tamás Kocsis was born in Budapest, Hungary, and began playing the violin at the age of 5. Tamás is the Leader of the