A Musical Trifecta: 3 Pieces, 3 Composers, 3 Performers
Music
USCB Chamber Music presents the second concert of its season on Sunday, December 9, 5:00pm, with one early, one middle, and one late work of Beethoven, Elgar, and Schubert.
Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. to Make Musical Magic in Beaufort
Music
Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. is the soul and Sinatra-singing season six winner of NBC TV’s “America’s Got Talent." The former car washer's Columbia Records debut album produced by Grammy winner Steve Tyrell spent six weeks at #1 on the Billboard Jazz chart. Landau's follow-up holiday CD “Christmas Made For Two” raised thousands for the Children’s Home Society of West Virginia and received nationwide airplay including Sirius/XM’s “Holly” channel.
Experience the joy of the holiday season at the ‘Christmas in the South’ concert presented by the Hilton Head Choral Society (HHCS) on Friday, December 14, 8 pm at First Presbyterian Church, 540 William Hilton Parkway. A joyful holiday treat, this ‘Christmas in the South’ concert is set to be an entertaining event for all ages.
Beaufort Academy is getting in the holiday spirit by presenting to the community its new choral ensembles. Under the direction of Victor Varner, Beaufort Academy is hosting a holiday concert featuring the Beaufort Academy Blue Notes at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 6, at Sea Island Presbyterian Church on Lady's Island.
When I last visited this space, I described how joining the Lowcountry Community Concert Band led me to a reunion with a college band friend I’d not seen in 45 years. Here’s another LCCB short story. During one of our Tuesday-night rehearsals, which are held at May River High School, I was chatting up a fellow tuba player, Lee Wiggins.
Conroy Center Hosts Novelists Wiley Cash & Jason Mott
Books
Hosted by the Pat Conroy Literary Center, New York Times bestselling novelists Wiley Cash and Jason Mott will share the stage and a lively conversation about their writing lives and about their newest books—Cash’s historical novel The Last Ballad and Mott’s dystopian novel The Crossing.