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Walk through the Huntington Avenue corridor on the orchestra level of Symphony Hall this season and you’ll see the original manuscript of Igor Stravinsky??s Symphony of Psalms on display, a work commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in 1930. That year was a particularly important one for the BSO, which also commissioned Hanson’s “Romantic” Symphony, Copland’s Symphonic Ode, and Roussel’s Third Symphony, among other pieces, to celebrate its 50th anniversary. It was wonderful to hear...