As a adolescence in Bulgaria, Columbus Symphony Music Director Rossen Milanov was amateur with the American abnormality of Halloween.
“I don’t anticipate there was annihilation absolutely like it,” Milanov said. “It’s one of those holidays that is so carefully American. I don’t anticipate anybody abroad goes so abundant overboard.”
In 2000, aloft abutting the Philadelphia Orchestra as an abettor conductor, Milanov apparent aloof how common activity for the anniversary is.
“I started in September, and absolutely my aboriginal concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra was a Halloween show,” he said. “They had this attitude of everybody in the orchestra bathrobe up in costumes, ... like the horns would apparently dress up as affectionate of the aforementioned character. One year, they all came up onstage dressed as cows.”
This Halloween, the Columbus Symphony will prove its affection for all things chilling and uncanny.
On Monday afternoon, Milanov will advance the symphony in a chargeless Happy Hour concert in the Ohio Theatre. Halloween-themed music will be performed at 6:30, but concertgoers are encouraged to access an hour beforehand — and in apparel — to buy drinks, allow in chargeless appetizers or participate in apparel contests.
Symphony musicians, too, are chargeless to dress in awful garb.
“I apprehend that they are activity to be dressed up,” Milanov said. “We’ll see who’s activity to be what exactly.”
During an account this month, arch trumpet amateur George Goad was borderline which apparel he would abrasion — although his activity for Harry Potter ability be in evidence, he said.
“I consistently accept a Harry Potter accouterments accessible to go, but maybe my wife and I will go get some analogous costumes,” Goad said. “I’ll go dressed up for sure.”
Although the concert will be laid-back, Goad said, abundant of the music is demanding, including the aperture piece: Modest Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain.”
“It’s a absolutely abrupt mood,” Goad said, “and absolutely has some catchy being for the orchestra.”
Added Milanov: “If you like big brass, if you like alarming strings, ... you are absolutely activity to get it in that accurate work.”
Concertmaster Joanna Frankel will be featured during Camille Saint-Saens’ “Danse Macabre.”
“‘Danse Macabre’ has this allotment for the abandoned violin,” Milanov said, “so you are activity to apprehend Joanna arena the role of Death himself on the violin.”
Eerie excerpts from three operas — Carl Maria von Weber’s “The Marksman,” Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” and Richard Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman” — will additionally be performed.
“In opera, there is a lot of alarming stuff,” Milanov said. “In the case of Weber and Humperdinck, there is a lot of absorbing things and bewitched things that could appear onstage.”
John Williams’ capacity to the movies “Jaws” and “Star Wars” will be included — the closing apparently as a tip of the hat to those dressed as Luke, Leia or Darth Vader.
The concert central the theater, Goad said, will bout the autumnal atmosphere outside.
“When you can comedy darker music, it can stoke your abstract blaze in a analytical way that is beautifully angry to the affection of the year,” he said. “I anticipate it’s aloof a air-conditioned mood-setting affectionate of thing.”
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