Rossen

On November 8, Rossen Milanov returns to Riga to lead the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra in a sold-out performance Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. A towering component of orchestral repertoire and the composer’s canon, the work is characterized by its opening trumpet heralds and popular standalone movement, the Adagietto—a love song to Mahler’s wife, Alma. The concert marks Rossen’s third …

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Rossen’s season as the music director of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra continues on November 3 with “Eternal Light,” a program devoted to works by Aaron Jay Kernis and Richard Strauss. Rossen first leads the orchestra in Kernis’s Colored Field. Featuring cellist Susan Babini, Kernis’s work is a response to the Holocaust that depicts bold themes including good, evil, and the human …

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