Dance is Music

Overall, the thing that most impressed me about this piece is the attention paid to the phrasing of the music.  We are getting closer to an Irish dance technique that reacquaints Irish dance with Irish trad music.  However, we are not quite there yet: take for example, the contrast of the phrase that begins at 2:28 as a beautiful example of musical imitation (especially when contrasted with less-imitative, but I will concede, no less musical phrases, say, at 0:36).  I think there needs to be more deconstruction in the latter of these examples and a willingness to do less, to sacrifice virtuosity for artistic merit.