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District Attorney Paul Howard announces assault and battery charges Tuesday after the release of a video showing officers using stun guns on two black young adults and yanking them from their car.

The Siena Pianoforte was salvaged from a Tel Aviv dump after having been used as a hive for bees, a chicken coop, and maybe even a smokehouse for sausages. Of such tales are legends made — some of them might even be true!

Jazz meets classical: it was a daring concept, and success was mixed. We’ll look at some of this music on this Sunday’s program.

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We don’t know why Franz Schubert left his Eighth Symphony unfinished 200 years ago. The reasons are probably quite commonplace, but coupled with the composer’s tragic life story the tale has grown greater than the sum of its parts in the public imagination.

Aaron Copland — a city boy — made a name for himself with music evocative of the American West. It’s a romanticized West, of course it is, but we’ll look at one of the first of his “oater-ballets,” Billy the Kid, this Sunday, and we’ll hear a couple of the others in upcoming weeks as well.

The premiere of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was a rare immediate triumph for the composer, ending with the cheers of the audience. We’ll hear Herbert von Karajan’s reading with the Berlin Philharmonic -- one of the great recordings of this iconic work — on this Sunday’s program.

Before Albert Schweitzer was a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, he was a Bach scholar and concert organist. Dr. Schweitzer’s playing might not quite be up to modern performance standards, but we’ll hear a sample or two, and you can see what you think.