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New Philharmonic: Music director Kirk Muspratt launches the orchestra’s 35th season with the grandest celebratory work of them all, Beethoven’s iconic Ninth Symphony, with its “Ode to Joy” choral finale. He will be joined by vocal soloists and the Northwest Indiana Symphony Chorus. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at McAninch Arts Center, College of DuPage, 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn; $38; 630-942-4000, atthemac.org
