Concert review

I just got back from the first Philadelphia Orchestra summer season concert (plus fireworks). It was great, and I'm very excited about the orchestra's apparent return to playing actual classical music at the Mann, and about the abilities of the new conductor, Rossen Milanov (though he does suffer a bit from Wild Gesticulation Syndrome -- was it Peter Schickele who wrote a Concerto for Conductor and Orchestra? This was kind of like that at times).

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