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Excerpt from Princeton's "Town Topics" by Nancy Plum Princeton Symphony Orchestra closed the 2021-22 season this past weekend with a classical violinist who is making his mark worldwide. Led by PSO Music Director Rossen Milanov, the Orchestra and guest violinist Stefan Jackiw performed a lesser-known and somewhat underrated 20th-century concerto, bracketed by a very contemporary work and a …

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Excerpt from The Columbus Dispatch By Jennifer Hambrick To paraphrase a great line, no one is an island. Every last soul bears the mark of the other souls that, gently or with deeper imprint, have pressed upon it. The musical works on last night’s concert of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra conveyed the privilege and the price we pay as humans who must live in relationship with each other. …

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By Jennifer Hambrick For the Columbus Dispatch The idea of death as a doorway through which all the living must eventually walk is ancient and tantalizing – we all want to know now, before having to walk through it, what’s behind the door. Death – literal and metaphorical – was theme of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra’s Chihuly Festival, showcasing Richard Strauss’ tone poem Death and …

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