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The group played “Movement,” a balladlike piece from the album, though not in a self-contained way: I couldn’t tell where it began and ended.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2015

Not a word of the show is spoken ; it is all sung, with an effect less operatic than balladlike.

From Time Magazine Archive