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There’s something heartening about audiences in shorts and T-shirts leaping to their feet in a concert hall to cheer well-turned showpieces by Ravel, Barber and Jacques Ibert.

The music reflects both the influence of Impressionism and Ibert’s background as a silent-movie pianist.

Again, the designer — here, Mr. Taylor’s long-term colleague Santo Loquasto — has provided much more vitality than the choreography, as does Ibert’s potently colorful music.

One, “Ports of Call,” is set to music by the 20th-century French composer Jacques Ibert; the other, “The Open Door,” features Elgar’s “Enigma” Variations.

Honegger was the better composer, while Ibert proved the more operatically engaging.