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Every December, the Philadelphia Orchestra schedules Christmas-related concerts. Yet it never performed Gian-Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors until now. That’s an inexplicable oversight, especially when we consider the composer’s Philadelphia connection, as a student and, later, faculty member at the Curtis Institute of Music.