NPR MUSIC: Orpheus Reborn With Dancers, Drums And Electric Guitar

NPR MUSIC: Orpheus Reborn With Dancers, Drums And Electric Guitar

BY TOM HUIZENGA

"In this scene, 'Stalactites,' Mackey portrays Orpheus with a distinctly percussive guitar. Spasms of notes twinkle and ping like bells; others, like icy shards, fly in all directions. Treuting's hair-trigger reactions speak in an interlocking language of drums, gongs and cymbals."

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