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Review: Head Tripping the Light Fantastic in ‘Symphonie Fantastique’

A piece of cloth undulates balletically in a 1,000-gallon tank of water to a pianist's performance of Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique,” at SoHo's HERE arts compound, in New York, March 28, 2018. The piece by puppeteer deluxe Basil Twist, a recipient of the so-called MacArthur “genius grant," swims beyond the confines of literal representation to find visual equivalents for the sensual experience of music. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)