Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra

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VOYAGE OF PASSION: ELGAR AND BEYOND

Strauss | Spanish March
Elgar | Violin Concerto
     Nicholas Hammel, Violin
Brahms | Haydn Variations
Rimsky-Korsakov |  Capriccio Espagnol

Music Director & Conductor Toshiyuki Shimada’s 16th season leading the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra will rousingly begin, as usual, with The Star-Spangled Banner. The four other works on the program all had their premieres—in London, Vienna, and St. Petersburg—with the composer conducting. Johann Strauss II‘s “Spanish March,” Op. 433, was dedicated to the regent of Spain, María Cristina, and first performed in Vienna on October 21, 1888, by the Strauss Orchestra conducted by Eduard Strauss.ECSO Instrumental Competition Winner Nicholas Hammel, a master’s candidate at Yale with degrees from the University of Texas and New England Conservatory, will perform Sir Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto in B Minor, first performed in 1910. Johannes Brahms’s Haydn Variations, composed in 1873, is also known as the Saint Anthony Variations, since the eight variations are based on a “Chorale St. Antoni” from a piece for winds probably misattributed to Joseph Haydn. Fourteen years later, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composed his caprice on Spanish themes, Capriccio espagnol, a five-movement suite in which the strings at times imitate guitars. The fourth moment opens with five lively cadenzas, by the trumpets and horns, violin, flute, clarinet, and harp.

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