Chorus numbers were ingeniously integrated: For the pastoral chaconne in Act II, friends watched David and Jonathas play blindman's buff.

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Klein also finds a way to add modernist composer Gyorgy Ligeti's "Hungarian Rock, " a chaconne composed for harpsichord players who like to shred on a Baroque-era instrument.

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