The legendary Niccolo Paganini was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of the late 18th and early 19th century and his Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major is the ultimate tour de force for a soloist. World-class Hungarian violinist Tamas Kocsis will perform Paganini's work with the Beaufort Symphony Orchestra in concert on Feb. 25 and 28.
Fripp Island Friends of Music has brought world-class pianists to the Fripp stage for over three decades. This year they’ve outdone themselves by hosting the incomparable Mauro Bertoli.
The Odyssey Jazz & Swing Orchestra will play a birthday tribute to Frank Sinatra, featuring Penney Lynn Smith & Terry Herron singing Sinatra hits, offering tidbits of Sinatra history and lore along the way.
The Lowcountry Wind Symphony will be in concert on January 31, at 3 pm at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 157 Lady’s Island Drive, in Beaufort. The musicians of LWS, along with Music Director, Donald F. Jemella, Assistant Conductor Steve Giove, and Second Assistant Conductor, Deborah Hamner, invite you to join us for an afternoon of great concert band selections. Together we will explore ‘What’s Musically Possible.”
Whether it’s seasonably cold and wet, unseasonably warm and wet, or just its old boring self, January in the Beaufort Barrier Islands isn’t a heckuva lotta fun. Well, this January’ll be different, because Sunday, January 24th, Hotlanta reprises at Fripp.
If you have not yet attended a Festival Series concert at USCB, the Sunday, January 31st, 5:00 performance is a perfect sampler: one piece was written in the eighteenth century, two in the nineteenth, and three in the twentieth.