On Saturday evening, Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra Music Director Toshi Shimada will be pushing the shuffle button so audience members won't have to.

Shimada and his talented corps of musicians and guest star, violinist Bella Hristova, will perform a program Shimada calls a "shuffle concert" - nine short classical works, each about eight to 12 minutes in length and spanning the centuries and styles, from Dvorák's gorgeous Romance for Violin to Elgar's stirring "Nimrod" from the Enigma Variations to John Adams' propulsive Chairman Dances from "Nixon in China" to a brand new ECSO commission by Brooklyn hipster composer William Brittelle.

"I'm always thinking of a younger audience, but not forgetting our regulars," Shimada says. "This is the 21st century, so why not just mix everything together?"

And, of course, the inveterate shufflers in the audience can punch up the ECSO app before the concert for info about the musicians and the music - and afterwards to post comments.

Even the orchestra's dress code will be a bit more unbuttoned.

Bulgarian-born Hristova, who has performed in an array of settings from Carnegie Hall to "Prairie Home Companion," will be featured in the lyrical Dvorák romance and in Ravel's hot-blooded Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra. The winner of an Avery Fisher career grant, Hristova is performing widely this season and gaining rave reviews. The Strad wrote of her, "She has an innate musicality that makes musical sense of each phrase she plays. Every sound she draws from her 1655 Amati is superb. "

The program includes long-time staples of the repertoire such as Smetana's "The Moldau" and Ravel's "La valse."

- MILTON MOORE

Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, 8 p.m. Saturday, Garde Arts Center, 325 State St., New London; $28.80-$62, with a variety of discounts; (860) 443-2876, ectsymphony.com.