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BSO does justice to rebels

By Matthew Guerrieri

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 03, 2012

One of the many downsides to classical music’s habit of canonization is the domestication of rebels. Last night’s concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with guest conductor Christoph Eschenbach, featured music by Berlioz and Ravel, composers often at odds with the musical establishment, but composers who are as solidly in the BSO’s comfort zone as any. But as it turned out, the concert was able to conjure at least an echo of the music’s once-novel spark.

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