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When Stephanie Ho and Saar Ahuvia are putting together their annual summer Makrokosmos music festival, it always starts with a single piece. The great American composer George Crumb’s epic “Makrokosmos” cycle inspired the four-concert program — as well as the name — for the first festival in 2015.