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And yet each performance somehow felt urgent, fresh, and moving.

The Metropolitan Opera’s Concert for Ukraine.

The orchestra expanded the violins dreamscape.

A solo note bloomed into an aurora borealis.

Great tree-trunk-like chords, rooted by percussive thumps, grew shivering filigrees of sound.

Gustavo Dudamel at the New York Philharmonic.

(This time, we heardNos.

3and4, separated by Andreia Pinto Correias clattering, disjointedThe Birds of Night yet another invocation of insomnia.)

Its looking for a leader, too.

Thats the mystery of hearing a symphony live: Surprise is always a possibility.

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