Rossen Milanov

Excerpt from The Chautauquan Daily By Andrew Druckenbrod, Guest Critic Think of the volume of a typical orchestral fortissimo and then double it. Then double it again. Now you have a good sense of the decibel level inside the Amphitheater Thursday night. The first amplification came with Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” one of the loudest works in the Western canon. The second was due to …

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Excerpt from The Chautauqua Daily by Guest Critic Christopher H. Gibbs Three long threads were woven into the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert Tuesday evening. The first is called “Into the Music/After the Music,” intermission-less programs after which the audience is invited to ask questions of Music Director Rossen Milanov. The second: several concerts this summer featuring Russian music, …

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Excerpt from The Columbus Dispatch By Jennifer Hambrick Symphony Orchestra Music Director Rossen Milanov led the orchestra and violin soloist Leila Josefowicz in performances of contemporary composer Thomas Adès Violin Concerto “Concentric Paths” and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony that took the spiritual idea of journeying to transcendent heights. Just as the proverbial journey of a thousand miles …

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