As the lights went down to start the final ECSO concert of the season, a family of four sidled in the way you do in a row of theater seats. Mom, Dad, brother, sister. Few children attend the nightt.
The ECSO welcomes the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus to the Garde Arts Center stage in March, when the expanded forces present one of the greatest works of Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem, to words derived from the German Luther Bible. Sacred but not liturgical, the seven-movement Ein deutsches Requiem was composed between 1865 and 1868…
In his capacity as a much sought-after composer, director of Cadet Vocal Music at the United States Coast Guard Academy and the newly appointed director of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus, Da.
New London ― Headlined by Vyacheslav Gryaznov's bravura performance in Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra brought the crowd to its feet Saturday at the Gar.
New London ― How often do you get a contemporary composer premiering and playing his pieces, backed by a symphony orchestra in the city where he works?
Well, that's what about 900 people at the Garde .