Rossen Milanov

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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