ECSO concert - Three Centuries: Mozart, Beethoven, & Shaw

Two days ahead of time, the orchestra will celebrate the 268th birthday of the one-and-only Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by performing a pair of his three-movement works from the 1770s: the Oboe Concerto in C Major—originally composed for star oboist Giuseppe Ferlendis—and the Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola in E-flat Major.
 

The ECSO’s oboe soloist will be Principal Oboe Erik Andrusyak, also co-principal oboe of the U.S. Coast Guard Band. For the Sinfonia Concertante—a genre that melds elements of the symphony and the concerto—the soloists will be ECSO Concertmaster Stephan Tieszen and Principal Viola Alex McLaughlin. Completing the program for the ECSO’s first concert of 2025 are an arrangement for strings of an exquisite setting of Psalm 84 by Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw, and the swallow; and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 in F Major of 1812, which the master called “my little symphony in F.”
 

We extend our sincere gratitude to Upton Bass String Instrument Co. for sponsoring this concert. Check them out in the lobby before the concert and during intermission as they demonstrate live woodworking techniques that go into creating their instruments.