A wonderful start

Guest artist Lilyanne Thoroughman, 16, right, of Williamstown, Ky., entertained about 300 people with her virtuosity on the violin during the Beaufort Symphony Orchestra’s kick-off concert Sunday afternoon at the Beaufort High School Performing Arts Center. Thoroughman was the guest soloist in Beethoven’s Violin Concert in D Major, Opus 61. After a brief intermission, the orchestra then played Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica,” Beethoven’s first Romantic Symphony premiering in 1805. Bob Sofaly/The Island News