I’ll be honest: Paquita’s music is not the most interesting in the world. Still, look at what boring costs. The flute runs are quick and exposed, the kind you practice for years so that nobody notices them. The steps are the same: small, fast, exact, on the beat, with a smile. One person in the pit and one on stage have each trained for a decade to deliver two minutes of mediocre, boring, bathroom-break filler.
That’s classical music and ballet in one sentence.