Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra Apr 23

The ECSO’s 2022-23 season at the Garde Arts Center will conclude on an environmental note—to mark Earth Day, first celebrated on April 22, 1970.

The works to be performed include: Felix Mendelssohn’s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage of 1828, set to the same poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as Beethoven’s earlier cantata; Claude Debussy’s impressionistic La mer (The Sea) of 1905; and Iranian Canadian composer Iman Habibi’s Jeder Baum Spricht (Every Tree Speaks), commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra for its celebration of Beethoven’s 250^th birthday in 2020.

Also on the program is Voices Shouting Out, a short, engaging response to 9/11 by African American composer Nkeiru Okoye, an Oberlin graduate who completed her doctorate at Rutgers.

As the season began with a cello soloist—Sara Sant’Ambrogio, performing Elgar’s Cello Concerto—it will close with a cello soloist: Shirley Kim, winner of the ECSO’s 2022 Instrumental Competition. A graduate of Eastman now studying at Manhattan School of Music, Kim will perform Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque for Violoncello and Orchestra, which premiered at Carnegie Hall in 1917, seven years before the Geneva-born Bloch became a U.S. citizen.

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