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The finest 21st-century work of the current S.F. Ballet season so far is Liam Scarlett’s “Die Toteninsel,” where the dark and brooding mood of the tone poem is carried forward with a wealth of emotion. This is as somber as Scarlett’s previous “Frankenstein,” but not at all lurid. The British choreographer scored richly here, using the great (but rarely heard in concert) Rachmaninoff tone poem “The Isle of the Dead,” inspired by the Symbolist 1880 painting of the German romantic…
