In the piece, a father (the Man) whose son has died in an unnamed place and time period feels compelled to walk “there, to him,” and he becomes a sort of macabre Pied Piper as more mourners follow in his meandering wake. The 80-minute piece is adapted from the poetic novel of the same name by Israeli author David Grossman, who wrote the book after the death of his 20-year-old son. The stuff of “Falling Out of Time” is deep grief, and who could chart a straightforward path through grief? In the grand scheme of things it wasn’t important. Maybe there was a printing error, I thought looking later at the 2020 recording of the piece, I realized that the synopsis matched that and not the live version I saw. The order of two other segments was reversed. One segment that was described in the synopsis’s second half showed up early on. Approximately halfway through Sunday afternoon’s performance of Osvaldo Golijov’s “Falling Out of Time” at Symphony Hall, I realized the synopsis I’d been given in the program book didn’t match what was playing out on the stage.
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