more climactic

A dramatic basketball game between two Ivy League schools, Harvard and Columbia, led to an even more climactic finish on Friday night.

This summer, however, almost 150 years after Darwin published his sexual selection theory to mixed reception, Richard Prum, a mild-mannered ornithologist and museum curator from Yale, has published a book intended to win Darwin’s sex theory a more climactic victory.

Matt Damon would have been well advised to quit playing Jason Bourne after 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, a film that could not have been more climactic if it tried, yet somehow ended up as the third movie in a five-episode saga.

Playing the first half of “Rite of Spring” as their second piece, in a ferocious, thundering four-hand arrangement that left the West Garden Court shivering with echoes, was something of a shot across the bow: It was hard to reach anything more climactic or challenging after that, though they certainly tried.

As Galantis, the duo takes current electronic-music tropes — thumping beats, climactic builds, even more climactic beat drops — and fuses them with their proven gifts for crafting ear worms.