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Known for the albums In a Silent Way and Kind of Blue, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis collaborated several times with pianist Gil Evans. Their 1958 adaptation of George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess bears little resemblance to the 1935 original. Davis and Evans felt no desire to please listeners expecting an exact duplication of the opera. They omitted parts, such as the aria "I Got Plenty of Nuthin'", and sometimes made only brief gestures toward Gershwin's melodies. But Davis and Evans's willingness to recompose Gershwin's work led to one of the most enduring albums in Davis's catalog.

Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?

• A.

  It shows how two artists benefited from ignoring certain conventions.

• B.

  It undermines an assertion made later in the text.

• C.

  It proposes a reason why one work of art is widely thought to be more successful than another.

• D.

  It presents examples to support a claim made earlier in the text.