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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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Excerpt from The Columbus Dispatch, By Peter Tonguette Each summer, attendees of CAPA’s Summer Movie Series have a front-row seat to the majesty of the “Mighty Morton” Pipe Organ, which plays during the series in the Ohio Theatre. Yet this was no ordinary use of the organ. For starters, there was a visual difference: The organ usually makes its way up from the orchestra pit, but for the …

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Excerpt from The Columbus Dispatch By Jennifer Hambrick In a program titled “The Romantic Cello,” cello soloist Pablo Ferrandez, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and CSO music director Rossen Milanov traversed the spectrum of emotion and color Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 alongside contemporary composer Jesus Torres’ Three Velazquez Paintings. The orchestra brought forth …

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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 …

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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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