A couple of grade schoolers clapped their hands over their ears and winced as the musicians began to play Beethoven’s Septet. One girl lifted her hands in the air as if she were conducting.
At the edge of the ragged circle surrounding the seven members of the Lyric Opera Orchestra, Andrew Raczkiewycz, 6, stared off in the distance. He occasionally cast an anxious eye toward his mother, who had also come to watch the performance Friday at St. Nicholas Cathedral School in Ukrainian Village.
