Spartans’ orchestral collaboration showcases “Brass to the Max!”

22 Mar Spartans’ orchestral collaboration showcases “Brass to the Max!”

The leadership of two prominent Nashua, New Hampshire music organizations share an interesting connection.

Those organizations? Spartans, the 2023 DCI Open Class World Champions, and Symphony New Hampshire, often referred to as “Symphony NH” which celebrated its 100th anniversary a year ago.

The connection? Paul LaFlamme, a longtime staple of Spartans’ leadership and the corps’ current president, has also served as production manager for Symphony NH for five years.

“It was (LaFlamme’s) idea to bring the two organizations together in a unique collaboration,” Symphony New Hampshire music director Roger Kalia said.

Ultimately, more than a year of planning brought the two organizations together for a joint concert, as performers of each took the stage together January 13 at the Keefe Center for the Arts in Nashua for “Brass to the Max!”

“It was October 2022 when we started chatting,” Kalia said. “That’s when we initially started to come up with the concept about what this would look like.”

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