Rossen

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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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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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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