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Boston Conservatory Orchestra and Festival Chorus--perform Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Copland's Lincoln Portrait. St. Cecilia's Church, Belvedere St., Boston. Friday, Feb. 14, 8 p.m. $10; $7 for students and seniors...
They will march under the five-ringed Olympic flag and carry a placard -- presumably large -- reading UNIFIED TEAM OF THE NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEES OF RUSSIA, UKRAINE, BELARUS, KAZAKHSTAN AND UZBEKISTAN. If a team member wins a gold medal, the Olympic hymn, Beethoven's Ode to Joy, will be played during the awards ceremony, at which, N.O.C. officials expect, the athlete may have his or her home country announced. The full Unified Team includes 192 athletes. About 160 will actually compete, and of those, 148 are from Russia...
...Wagner cannot be heard in Israel; the Symphony of Rishon Lezion, a Tel Aviv suburb, violated the taboo two years ago, to little or no outcry. And it is not as if the Nazis didn't turn the works of other composers, such as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Liszt's Les Preludes, into political totems as well. Yet Wagner's unique resonance continues to sound, louder and more forcefully than that of the others...
...belong to the category of the miraculous? Can the wonder of the other world, the hypothetical perfection, be dreamed up, designed and turned into products? A perfect digital reproduction of the Ninth Symphony owes its miraculousness not to the manufacturer of the sound system but to the divinity in Beethoven's music...
...Itzkoff-Shapiro-Rider Trio--performs a benefit concert of works by Haydn, Beethoven and Brahms for All Newton Music School. At the All Newton Music School, 312 Chestnut St., West Newton. Tickets are $15, $10 for students and elders and are available by calling...