Opening Night Spectacular

ECSO Music Director, Toshiyuki Shimada, conducts ”The Opening Night Spectacular” in a 6-concert series, from October through April, which features music from many countries in an armchair trip around the world. Henry Kramer, guest piano soloist, plays the incomparable Rachmaniff’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Augusta Read Thomas, composer, will give the pre-concert chat highlighting the works about to be played on the program including her own Aureole (Halo), and Kancheli‘s A Little Daneliade plus Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini. The Orchestra and Toshi Shimada were recently profiled in the New York Times for interesting and innovative programming. Tickets to this concert sponsored by The Friends of the Symphony can be purchased online at: www.gardearts.org or calling the Eastern Connecticut Symphony office at 860 443-2876. Visit the ECSO at www.ectsymphony.com or on Facebook for more information.