The works, which he trailed on his Instagram account last night, include one piece which somewhat resembles Rodin's sculpture The Thinker, with the figure's hand gone from thoughtfully supporting his face to covering it in despair – or perhaps Niobe, the classical figure weeping for the loss of her children.
By that point the sound was so refined, so reduced, that it was like a classical French stock.
It could be anything from Benny Hill comedy music to classical to French rap.
The Americans put on a varied show, contrasting highly technical, classical ballet with a modern piece of work and finishing with a comic, theatrical number that was first performed in 1944.
I had seen his countryman, Aravinda de Silva, make the same score at the same venue in the same way 19 years earlier – each were masterpieces of classical one-day batsmanship that I was privileged to witness and will never forget.
"It's a national institution," says Petra Henning, a classical music fan who runs a café nearby the Philharmonie.
But next month, when she takes her first jeté on to the Hippodrome stage, she will change the face of classical ballet for ever.
To subsidise a classical career that had her eventually singing for Stravinsky and Schoenberg, "you just worked any way you can".
People who want a map of the libertarian or "classical liberal" mind without suffering through Chris Berg's boring books can find it here.
This eerily beautiful painting is not so much about his search for a science of seeing as it is a revelation of classical calm and grace hidden at the margins of modern life.
Last week's episode made a show of parallels between Kima and Daniels' marital problems in a rather contrived (I thought) sequence of the two couples having dinner with classical music playing in the background.
