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  • Summary: The Beatle was commissioned by the New York City Ballet to compose the score for the romance between a water princess and a land-based prince.

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. Consequence of Sound
    Oct 6, 2011
    70
    Yet while it's not really great music, comparable to the masterful works of Tchaikovsky or Stravinsky, it has its day by the sea.
  2. Uncut
    Nov 23, 2011
    60
    Solid, competent stuff, but it's difficult, but it's difficult to imagine anyone wanting to listen to this in isolation. [Dec 2011, p.89]
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  3. BBC Music
    Oct 6, 2011
    30
    To use a fishy term, McCartney well and truly floundered with this one.

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