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Schumann, an allergy

The Orchestre Métropolitain’s embarrassingly titled Youth Spirit 2.0 concert on Thursday was a five-part reminder that we have two great orchestras in this city, and we are lucky that they have two different outlooks — the OSM was playing in Rio that night. Our evening, at the Maison symphonique, began with Christiane Duchesne’s poem “Lux” set by Éric Champagne to a beautiful vignette that had the Joseph-François Perrault High School choir clipping words against ringing bursts and swoons of melody from the orchestra. The four other parts.