Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
From left, soloists Lilli Paasikivi, Christiane Oelze, Joseph Kaiser and Hanno Müller-Brachmann sing as Christoph Von Dohnányi conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2008 season-closing performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.
