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There’s something that they’re infusing into their music-making that you can see even in their body language and through their eyes, from the very start, I saw what the music was doing to them. And to their souls. In a positive way. I could see it in their demeanor. As soon as they started playing their instruments —and for me too, as the conductor —the music-making began and it took us to a different place: a happy place.