Instead, her appearances on screen are marked by music that's somehow ill-fitting or harmonically skewed.

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Unlike the bluntly bluesy garage-band sound of the Stones, Mr. Fagen's music is a rich-textured, harmonically oblique amalgam of rock, jazz and soul.

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The intensity of the 45-minute piece lies in Mr. MacMillan's fierce, harmonically tense writing for the trio of travelers, tightly rendered by tenors Neal Ferreira and Samuel Levine and baritone David McFerrin, who sang as one, with an otherworldly character that befit the voice of God.

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