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Byline: Mark Stryker
Apr. 7--Anyone weary of the endlessly recycled warhorses that weigh down too many classical programs these days should rejoice in the options this weekend. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra and violinist Anthony Marwood eschew the standard concerto choices for Kurt Weill's "Concerto for Violin and Winds," a breath of fresh air called up from 1924. A clever cross-pollination of the Jazz Age, the piece leads with a syncopated edge that suggests simmering popular currents. The rest of the program isn't as adventurous, but you don't hear Beethoven's Fourth Symphony or Prokofiev's "Classical Symphony" every day. Conductor Thomas Dausgaard makes his …