In the space of just two songs, Regina Spektor danced across time.

The acclaimed singer-songwriter was seated on the Majestic Theatre stage Wednesday, making her first appearance in North Texas in 16 years as part of her Midsummer Daydream Tour. (“I’m so happy to be back,” she said, as the ecstatic cheers greeting her entrance subsided. “It took me a minute.”)

She’d just concluded “Summer in the City,” a tune from her fourth album, 2006’s Begin to Hope — “This song is my other summer song,” she said, by way of introducing “City” — and began playing “Loveology,” the wistful, penultimate track from her eighth and most recent studio album, 2022’s Home, Before and After , produced by the Dallas-bred John Congleton.

The span between Hope and After is precisely as long as the amou

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