Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra: Fanfare for Life & Spring at The Garde

Taking place on National Vietnam War Veterans Day, the ECSO’s March concert is a dedication to the commitment of armed forces and heralds in Spring. The program will begin with two haunting works from 70 years apart: These Worlds in Us of 2006 by Missy Mazzoli, Musical America’s 2022 Composer-of-the-Year, and Samuel Barber’s 1936 Adagio for Strings, dedicated to the late ECSO Board member, John Anthony.

Appropriately, since the day before is World Piano Day— the 88^th day of the year, for the instrument’s 88 keys—the ECSO will perform Sergei Prokofiev’s excitingly modern Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major from 1921. The soloist is Adam Adov, a Boston Conservatory at Berklee student who won the ECSO’s 2024 Instrumental Competition. Concluding the concert will be Robert Schumann’s sprightly Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Minor, known as the “Spring Symphony,” written in 1841.

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