It is often said that life is a journey. A piece of music, too, is a journey, one that holds up a mirror to life. The ECSO’s March 30 program explores this theme in works by Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, and the contemporary Sicilian composer Salvatore Di Vittorio, whose 2015 Sea Fanfare, based on a theme by Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi, who bridged the Renaissance and the Baroque eras, will open the concert.

Step into the time machine and travel back exactly 100 years. 1924 was bursting at the seams with world premieres of beloved classics like Rhapsody in Blue and The Pines of Rome. Experience Honegger’s sonic steam engine, Pacific 231 and the majesty of American composer Carl Ruggles’ Men & Mountains.

On March 9 ONE will celebrate its 50th birthday by revisiting their very first “Yale Theatre Orchestra” concert from 1974, an all-Ives extravaganza that was so successful that within two weeks they recorded the whole affair for CBS Records (now Sony).