Openers Rizzle Kicks are the something-for-the-kids element of the evening, though there are few bona fide juveniles here.
With the sound of Pulp warping around the dancers' bodies, and an accelerating display of projected graphics, we're led into the other main element of the evening: Jarvis Cocker singing live with two backing musicians.
But they also orchestrated every element of the evening, arrival to departure, most crucially directing the conversation, which they either allowed to follow a traditional serve-and-volley pattern (20 minutes right, 20 minutes left), or else commandeered for so-called "general discussion" as provocateur hosts like the television journalist Barbara Walters still do.
But that Mr. Fleisher played with one hand (in Korngold's Op. 23 Suite) and then two hands (in Brahms's F-minor Piano Quintet) on Tuesday night at the 92nd Street Y, and played well, was certainly the most notable element of the evening.
Martin Pakledinaz did the subtly varied costumes; James F. Ingalls, the lighting; and Howard Hodgkin, a British painter, the three different backdrops, each a variant of large smears of paint, somewhere between hair and fingerprints, and to my taste the least distinctive element of the evening.
In the event Robert Carsen's staging proves to be the least involving element of the evening, providing more irritations than insights; what one takes away is the quality of most of the individual performances and, after a slightly uncertain start, of the superb orchestral playing under Andris Nelsons.
Yet MacFarlane was not the only criticised element of the night, which may well disappoint him, considering moral outrage appears to be his bread and butter.
Encoded in that brief exchange was an essential element of the night and a reason the Costume Institute ball is often ballyhooed as the party of the year.
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