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What happens when hip-hop meets classical? Or is it when classical meets hip-hop? Anything can happen, and it will, when Thee Phantom and The Illharmonic Orchestra take the stage Thursday, Sept. 25 at 8 p.m. at the Colonial Theater in downtown Boston.

The musical phenomenon is the creation of Thee Phantom, a.k.a. Jeffrey M. McNeill; and Phoenix, a.k.a. Andrea Coln. The husband and wife’s love of music — all music — led to establishing The Illharmonic Orchestra . The orchestra is a collection of musicians who can discover the ties and contradictions, melodies and dissonance and genre-busting chords and discord between rap and classical music. But what is happening? What happens musically in the original compositions and when the orchest

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