SAT, MAY 7, 2022 | 7:30pm
Masks are required for entry to this performance as well as proof of full COVID-19 vaccination, or a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours of the performance or a negative COVID-19 Antigen test within 48 hours.
Price | Dances in the Canebrakes
Beethoven | Finale: Ode to Joy from Symphony No. 9 in D Minor
Celebrating Ludwig van Beethoven, the evening begins with his Triple Concerto of 1803, featuring violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen; Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, cellist Sophie Shao; and acclaimed Steinway Artist pianist Eva Virsik.
Following intermission the ECSO performs Florence Price’s Dances in the Canebrakes. This charming, jazzy, three-movement suite, was written for solo piano in 1953, the year of her death, and later orchestrated by William Grant Still, a Harlem Renaissance figure then known as the “Dean of Afro-American Composers.”
To festively conclude this milestone season, the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus joins the orchestra under Music Director & Conductor Toshiyuki Shimada to present the glorious finale of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, his immortal setting of Friedrich Schiller’s Ode to Joy, with soloists Sarah Yanovitch, soprano; Catherine O’Dwyer, alto; Brian Cheney, tenor; and Gregory Flower, bass.
