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Taking place on National Vietnam War Veterans Day, the ECSO’s March concert is named for the opening piece, Fanfare for Life, written in 1994 by Vietnam veteran and former Army Band member James “Kimo” Williams. With Gary Sinise, Williams founded the Lt. Dan Band to entertain the troops and raise funds for disabled vets. The program will continue with two haunting works from 70 years apart: These Worlds in Us of 2006 by Missy Mazzoli, Musical America’s 2022 Composer-of-the-Year, and Samuel Barber’s 1936 Adagio for Strings. Appropriately, since the day before is World Piano Day— the 88th day of the year, for the instrument’s 88 keys—the ECSO will perform Sergei Prokofiev’s excitingly modern Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major from 1921. The soloist is Adam Adov, a Boston Conservatory at Berklee student who won the ECSO’s 2024 Instrumental Competition. Concluding the concert will be Robert Schumann’s sprightly Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Minor, known as the “Spring Symphony,” written in 1841.