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Paul Lansky and Hannah MacKay's collaboration, Things She Carried, brings to mind Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's verse:
When she was good She was very, very good, But when she was bad she was horrid.
The eight movements that comprise the hour-long work have a distinctive, largely laid-back aesthetic which at times recall the feelings evoked by the music of Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Charles Dodge, Arvo Part, Steve Reich, and the percussive way Igor Stravinsky used the piano. These references are only intended to place...
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