The CSO and Chorus Present the Second Half of the RUSSIAN WINTER FESTIVAL
By: BWW News Desk Jan. 26, 2017
The Columbus Symphony presents the Russian Winter Festival II at the Ohio Theatre (39 E. State St.) on Friday and Saturday, March 3 and 4, at 8pm. Tickets start at $10 and can be purchased at the CAPA Ticket Center (39 E. State St.), all Ticketmaster outlets, and www.ticketmaster.com. To purchase tickets by phone, please call (614) 228-8600 or (800) 745-3000. The CAPA Ticket Center will also be open two hours prior to each performance. In addition, there will be a Friday Dress performance on Friday, March 3, at 10am, offering $20 general admission tickets.
The 2016-17 Masterworks Series is made possible through the generous support of season sponsor Anne Melvin.
Prelude - Patrons are invited to join CSO Music Director Rossen Milanov at 7pm for a 30-minute, pre-concert discussion about the works to be performed.
Postlude - After the conclusion of the program, patrons are invited to enjoy White Russian cocktails with Maestro Milanov and the musicians of the CSO in the Galbreath Pavilion.
Subject Matter - Russian Tsars and Dictators in Russian Culture
Tuesday, February 28, 5:30pm, Urban Arts Space (50 W. Town St.)
In this free lecture series designed to complement upcoming CSO programming, Dr. Yana Hashamova, OSU professor and chair of the Department of Eastern European Languages and Cultures, will examine how Russian historical figures are portrayed in art and the relation of artists to the regime.
Mozart to Matisse - Russian Realism Before the Revolution
Wednesday, March 1, 2pm, Columbus Museum of Art (480 E. Broad St.)
In collaboration with the Columbus Museum of Art, this afternoon lecture will explore Russian Realist paintings in the late 19th and 20th centuries, noted for bold depictions of peasants and workers, and will be paired with a performance of Arnesky's String Quartet in A Minor by CSO musicians. Tickets are $5 for CMA members or $20 for non-members (which also includes admission to the museum) and can be purchased by calling CMA at 614.629.0359.
About CSO Music Director Rossen Milanov
Respected and admired by audiences and musicians alike, Rossen Milanov is currently the Music Director of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and recently completed his second season with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra to enthusiastic acclaim. He is also Music Director of the Princeton Symphony and Spain's Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias (OSPA).
The 2016-17 CSO season builds upon many of the innovative ideas that were introduced in his first season-thematic festivals, enrichment programs, integrated experiences, and collaborations with other local cultural institutions. In Princeton, he is continuing the tradition of adventurous programming and collaborating with violinist Leila Josefowicz, clarinetist David Krakauer, and composers Saad Haddad and Zhou Tian. In Spain, he will conduct the Spanish premiere of Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa with the Oviedo Opera and the gala concert of the "Princess of Asturias" awards with OSPA.
Milanov has collaborated with some of the world's preeminent artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Midori, Christian Tetzlaff, and André Watts. During his 11-year tenure with the Philadelphia Orchestra, he conducted more than 200 performances as Associate Conductor and as Artistic Director of the Orchestra's summer home at The Mann Center for the Performing Arts. In 2015, he completed a 15-year tenure as Music Director of the nationally recognized training orchestra Symphony in C in New Jersey. His passion for new music has resulted in numerous world premieres of works by composers such as Richard Danielpour, Nicolas Maw, and Gabriel Prokofiev among others.
Rossen Milanov studied conducting at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School, where he received the Bruno Walter Memorial Scholarship.
About guest pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk
Alexander Gavrylyuk began his piano studies at the age of seven and gave his first concerto performance at nine. He went on to win first prize and the gold medal at the 1999 Horowitz International Piano Competition, first prize at the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, and in 2005, took both the coveted Gold Medal as well as the award for Best Performance of a Classical Concerto at the internationally renowned Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition. Gavrylyuk has received critical acclaim for his thrilling performances of Rachmaninov, performing the complete concerti cycle and the Rhapsody with both the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Neeme Järvi and as part of the Vancouver Symphony's Rachmaninov Festival. www.alexandergavrylyuk.com
About the Columbus Symphony Chorus
Now in its 56th season, the Columbus Symphony Chorus is comprised of 140 volunteer singers from central Ohio and performs major works from Bach through the 21st century. Under the leadership of conductor Ronald J. Jenkins for the past 32 years, the Chorus has grown both in the quality of its performances and in the diversity of its classical repertoire.
About composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five," and was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music. Many of his works were inspired by Russian history, Russian folklore, and other nationalist themes. One such work is his only completed opera, Boris Godunov, which portrayed the Russian ruler Boris Godunov, who reigned as Tsar from 1598 to 1605, and his nemesis, the False Dmitriy (reigned 1605-06). Considered his masterpiece, Mussorgsky created two versions-the original version of 1869, which was rejected for production by the Imperial Theatres, and the revised version of 1872, which received its first performance in 1874 in Saint Petersburg.
About composer Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century, Rachmaninoff was a Russian pianist, composer, and conductor of the late-Romantic period whose works are among the most popular in the classical repertoire. The piano is featured prominently in Rachmaninoff's compositional output, and through his own skills as a performer, he explored the expressive possibilities of the instrument. His Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini was written at his Villa Senar in Switzerland, according to the score, from July 3 to August 18, 1934. Rachmaninoff himself played the solo piano part at the piece's premiere at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 7, 1934.
About composer Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906-75)
Shostakovich was a Russian composer and pianist of the Soviet period, and a prominent figure of 20th-century music. He achieved fame in the Soviet Union under the patronage of Soviet chief of staff Mikhail Tukhachevsky, but later had a complex and difficult relationship with the government. Nevertheless, he received accolades and state awards and served in the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR (1947-62) and the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (from 1962 until his death). Shostakovich's Symphony No. 15 in A major was his last. It was written during the summer of 1971 in Repino, and was first performed in Moscow on January 8, 1972, by the All-Union Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra.
About composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-93)
Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the late-Romantic period whose works are among the most popular in classical repertoire. He was the first Russian composer who made a lasting impression internationally, bolstered by his appearances as a guest conductor in Europe and the US.
Photo credit: Randall L. Schieber
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