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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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