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Excerpt from "The Columbus Dispatch" by Peter Tonguette The Columbus Symphony’s latest program, “The Trumpet Shall Sound,” featured a pair of pieces that showed off the instrument to dazzling and diverse effect: Dmitri Shostakovich’s “Piano Concerto No. 1″ and Leos Janacek’s “Sinfonietta.” Featured as a soloist on the first piece was former CSO principal trumpeter George Goad, who, after a …

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Columbus Symphony and Chorus: Hip range of musical styles makes for impressive performance  By Jennifer Hambrick for The Columbus Dispatch A young work for two orchestras – “one live, one dead” – met up with a timeless setting of the ancient Catholic Mass for the Dead last night in the Ohio Theatre. Columbus Symphony Orchestra music director Rossen Milanov led the orchestra, the Columbus …

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This weekend at the Ohio Theatre the Columbus Symphony is presenting a Nordic Myths Festival. Celtic myths inspire Wagner’s passionate love story of Tristan and Isolde, while Grieg’s Piano Concerto immortalizes the beauty of the Nordic landscape. Finnish myths from The Kalevala come to life in the expansive music of Sibelius, accompanied by original video art by Jason Gay. …

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