Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, Wasn’t the Beaufort Symphony Orchestra’s “Holiday Celebration” concert on December 2 wonderful! What a great way to open December and begin the Holiday Season! Thank you all for attending and celebrating the Holidays with us! As the year ends and New Year Holidays are upon us, wouldn’t it be lovely to give the gift of a 2nd Half BSO Ticket Bundle? The ticket bundle includes the final two concerts of the Beaufort Symphony Orchestra’s 2023-2024 Season: “Passionate Romance,” Sunday, March 10, 2024, 5:00 pm, at the USCB Center for the Arts “European Excursion,”...

Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, On Sunday, May 15, 2022, at 4:00 pm, the Beaufort Symphony Orchestra will perform its 2022 May concert “Romantic Blockbusters” at the Sea Island Presbyterian Church, 81 Lady’s Island Drive, Lady’s Island, SC 29907. This will be our final concert for the 2021-2022 season. The program will include the Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26, composed by Max Bruch in 1866 as well as the Symphony No. 5 in D major/D minor, Op. 107, known as the “Reformation Symphony,” composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1830. The violin soloist for the Bruch Violin...

Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, This week’s music offering is a medley from the musical Chicago performed by the BSO String Orchestra at its second livestream concert on May 16, 2021, that was broadcast from the Carolina Ballroom at the Dataw Island Club. The recording is on YouTube: BSO Strings perform Chicago. The words are by Fred Ebb, the music by John Kander and the arrangement by Ted Ricketts. The medley includes “And All That Jazz,” “Cell Block Tango,” “Roxie” and “We Both Reached for the Gun.” About the music, Maestro Fred Devyatkin writes, “Chicago opened on Broadway in...