Symphony to perform Valentine's Day-themed concert with COVID restrictions
The Columbus Symphony wasn’t about to try. For its love song-filled concert Saturday in the Palace Theatre, the symphony will admit 300 socially distanced, face-mask-wearing attendees — marking the first time that Principal Pops Conductor Stuart Chafetz will lead the group before a live audience since the start of the pandemic. “I didn’t realize, until it was gone, how much of what I do is playing off the audience and their reaction,” said Chafetz, who conducted the symphony’s “Holiday Spectacular” program, which was recorded without an audience for broadcast on WBNS-TV (Chann...