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...from the workshop hand-in-hand with Frantz. It is in this second act that Léo Delibes is truly distinguished as a dancer’s composer. His symphonic score faithfully highlights the ballet’s plotline while drawing upon national themes and adding whimsical sound effects to hold the attention of the audience. Though conducting for ballet is notoriously difficult, Maestro Jonathon McPhee skillfully led the Boston Ballet Orchestra while paying close attention to the dancers on the stage...
...commemorate moments when the town bells would be rung—dawn, prayer, work, war, and peace—Boston Ballet’s principals and soloists performed with grace. Soloist Rie Ichikawa (as Dawn) and Whitney Jensen (as Spinner), one of the corps de ballet, gave particularly technically sound performances. They were accompanied by more than 30 young students of the Boston Ballet School, who were endearing in their meticulous symmetric formations and tiny pink tutus...
...actually does so. Instead, it underpins Birgisson’s nostalgic wailing with a couple of whining violins and jittering electronics, ensuring lyrics like “You’ll really want to grow and grow till tall / They all, in the end, will fall” never sound fatalistic. Far from undermining the album’s generally buoyant mood, this emotional low point makes the more hopeful track that follows it, “Hengilás,” all the more cathartic...
...influence of blues isn’t immediately evident in the sound of Park’s music, but his background helps explain his affinity for it. His father was a blues guitarist, and Park grew up in a small mountain town where “there was a lot of time and space to think and play music,” he says. This abundance of relaxation and reflection shows through in the unaffected, folksy sound of his songs...
...agreement while Cline paused for a moment, gathering his thoughts before concluding his point on how the familiar can be rediscovered and made personal. “Sometimes too much time is spent trying to be original, or trying to worry about ‘Wow, does this sound too much like [your influences]’ and it can’t be like that because you?...