Some elements of Wool work brilliantly: the first two sections are frightening, intriguing and mysterious.
(The first two sections premièred in previous seasons. The full triptych opens on Dec. 7).
It is a heartfelt antidote to the comic bleakness of the first two sections.
When the first two sections were engineered, they were out by 9mm (0.4 inches).
The first two sections of the Sherman act are broad enough to be indefinitely adaptable.
After intermission the focus fully returned to Bach by way of the first two sections of the "Christmas Oratorio".
And if this sometimes makes the first two sections uneasy reading, it makes the final one truly engaging.
The first two sections can almost stand on their own as a meditation on the impossibility of fully knowing another person, or of plumbing the past.
The first two sections are leisurely and detailed, studded with examples of the comical Dodsons and the minute plotting of the changing relationship between the young Tullivers.
Its heart lies in three successive duets whose entanglements are metaphors for the passion and pain behind the adrenaline symbolized in the first two sections.
The first two sections, both for ensembles, were seen in New York in May during the company's season at the Joyce Theater.
