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<p>Eight hours after conducting the Columbus Symphony, below, in support of famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, music director Junichi Hirokami waits at Port Columbus at 4:17 a.m. yesterday for a flight home to Japan.</p>
Jeffrey Sheban | Dispatch

Eight hours after conducting the Columbus Symphony, below, in support of famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, music director Junichi Hirokami waits at Port Columbus at 4:17 a.m. yesterday for a flight home to Japan.

Waiting for an encore
Music director hopes he hasn't left the symphony -- and the city -- for good
Like any good conductor, Junichi Hirokami knows the score: In life, as in music, lows follow the highs. Such was his fate early yesterday.

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    The comedy-music duo Flight of the Conchords, otherwise known as Jemaine Clement, left, and Bret McKenzie, banter between songs during their show at Value City Arena.
    Andrea Kjerrumgaard | Dispatch
    The comedy-music duo Flight of the Conchords, otherwise known as Jemaine Clement, left, and Bret McKenzie, banter between songs during their show at Value City Arena.

    Review: flight of the conchords

    Offbeat musical duo charms arena crowd

    "There's too many of you," joked Jemaine Clement, one half of New Zealand's acclaimed musical twosome, Flight of the Conchords. "How can we possibly cope?"

    Indeed, the eccentric, witty tunes (and banter) of the island nation's self-proclaimed "fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo a cappella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo" didn't seem quite right inside Value City Arena.

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    <p>As an intern at the Franklin County coroner's office, Jasmine Owens dissects a human liver under the supervision of Dr. Joseph Ohr.</p>
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    As an intern at the Franklin County coroner's office, Jasmine Owens dissects a human liver under the supervision of Dr. Joseph Ohr.

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