Excerpt from The Columbus Dispatch By Peter Tonguette The Columbus Symphony is capable of transporting audiences through the beauty of its playing. Sometimes, however, the symphony has more on its mind than mere musical notes. Such was the case when the symphony presented its “American Festival” Friday night in the Ohio Theatre. In a program dedicated to music by American composers, the …
Cape Town Debut For ‘Intensely Musical’ Rossen Milanov
By: Deon Irish CONDUCTOR Rossen Milanov is making his Cape Town debut during this series and, as an indisposition had prevented me attending the first of his two concerts, it was with considerable interest that I watched him make his way to the podium for Debussy’s intensely evocative orchestral reverie, the “Prelude to the afternoon of a faun”. Milanov strikes one immediately as an …
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Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Performs with Violinist Augustin Hadelich
Excerpt from The Chautauquan Daily by Zachary Lewis Someone at the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra clearly knows what he’s doing. Case in point: the group’s concert Thursday night in the Amphitheater, the third in the orchestra’s season-long Russian Festival with Music Director Rossen Milanov. In both program and performance, not a thing was flawed. Every element was in its place. Indeed, it was …
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