Please stay tuned for program details!

Tickets are $10 for admission; free for students! 

Please stay tuned for program details!

Tickets are $10 for admission; free for students! 

Please stay tuned for program details!

Tickets are $10 for admission; free for students!

A special program highlighting the rich Gullah/Geechee heritage in the coastal South Carolina region as well as the subsequent development of African American musical genres, such as spirituals, ragtime, Dixieland, jazz, and gospel. Featuring renowned Gullah historians, storytellers, and singers Ron and Natalie Daise as well as a mass gospel choir from Sandy Grove Baptist, Mount Olive AME, and the First Presbyterian Church of Myrtle Beach.

This concert will be offered at a “Pay What You Wish” rate—pay as much as you wish for your ticket to support the continuation of this program!

We'd like to thank our generous donors for helping make this event possible for a second year:

 & Joanne Milnor

 

Join us for an uplifting patriotic program featuring inspirational songs from our nation’s past to the present, tracing our quest for freedom through music and narrative.

Free admission for the general public. No reservation necessary.

This concert will take place at multiple locations along the Grand Strand:

• Saturday, November 11th 3PM at Holy Cross Faith Memorial Church (113 Baskerville Drive, Pawleys Island, SC 29585)
• Sunday, November 12th 2:30PM at First Presbyterian Church (3810 Robert Grissom Parkway, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577)
• Sunday, November 12th 6:30PM at Our Lady Star of the Sea (1100 8th Ave N, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582)

In lieu of tickets, donations will be accepted at the door for Joint Task Force K9s. Learn more about their organization here: https://jtfk9s.com/

This concert is presented by the Chapin Foundation and sponsored in part by:

 &  Joanne Milnor

 

 

Ring in the New Year in the classic Viennese musical tradition! The Long Bay Symphony presents a concert of familiar waltzes, polkas and other dances by the legendary Johann Strauss family. This charming program will you have you tapping your toes and humming along, kicking off your resolution to enjoy 2024! $30 for admission.

This event is sponsored in part by Joanne Milnor.

 

Online ticket sales are now closed. To reserve tickets, please call the LBS Office at 843-448-8379; please have your party's names and food choices ready when you call. Reservations will not be accepted after 1:00PM on Thursday, December 28th.

A block of hotel rooms has been reserved for gala attendees. Upon purchase of your ticket(s), an order confirmation with the discount link will be sent to your email. Use the link within that email to reserve your hotel room (hint: the link works best with Google Chrome).

Featuring mezzo-soprano Jennifer Luiken & violist Ayane Kozasa

Throughout history, countries have developed their own distinct musical styles, which become part of their national identity. Characteristic French elegance and subtlety are demonstrated in Danse by Claude Debussy (in a vibrant orchestration by Maurice Ravel), while the passion and intensity of the Spanish ethos radiates from Manuel de Falla’s ballet, El Amor Brujo (Love, the Magician). Cuban-American composer Tania León (a 2021 Pulitzer Prize winner and 2022 Kennedy Center honoree) incorporates the unique blend of cultures in her native country to create a distinctive voice that is the essence of her Para Viola y Orquesta, and quintessential American composer Aaron Copland forged a universally recognized national musical language, clearly evidenced in his ballet, Appalachian Spring (which includes the famous Shaker melody, “Simple Gifts”).

Plus, the 23-24 Long Bay Symphony Music Teacher of the Year Awards will be presented to seven winners during intermission! (Sponsored by HTC)

Prices range from $28, $53, $58, $63 depending on seating section (fees included).

We'd like to thank our supporting sponsor for this concert event:

 

Featuring the Carolina Master Chorale

Composers have frequently drawn inspiration from stories and traditions of the past, whether from their own cultural heritage or from more distant sources. The title piece of this concert is an epic historical portrayal by a famous 20th-century composer: a choral setting of Saint Francis of Assis’s 13th-century text, Canticle of the Sun, by Amy Beach, recognized as the first American female composer. Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas pays satirical homage to a famous native tourist island, Janitzio, while Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodály creates a colorful portrait of the musical traditions in a particular city where the composer lived for several years in his Dances of Galánta. Additionally, the LBS will perform Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5 ("Reformation").

Prices range from $28, $53, $58, $63 depending on seating section (fees included).

Presenting sponsor:

Supporting Sponsor:

 

Featuring ECU Piano Competition Winner Benjamin Luo

The emotional aesthetic in music reaches far beyond its origins in Beethoven and the early Romantic period. Indeed, composers have continued to embrace it, even in the midst of more technical, detached musical languages of the 20th century.  

One of the most beloved masterpieces of all time, the Piano Concerto No. 2 by late Romantic Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, is filled with lush harmonies and sweeping, unforgettable melodies, some of which have been appropriated into popular songs made famous by Frank Sinatra, Eric Carmen and others.  Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1, the first orchestral work by an African American woman to be performed by a major U.S. orchestra, exemplifies the early 20th-century American Neo-Romantic style, infusing European traditions with native hymn tunes, spirituals and dances. A world-premiere piece by Pawleys Island native and Long Bay Youth Symphony alumnus Joseph Kaz carries this enduring Romantic Spirit into the present. 

Prices range from $28, $53, $58, $63 depending on seating section (fees included).

Presenting Sponsor: