Romeo's Seance

Is anyone there I can talk to? Give us a sign if you're with me Can't you see that I'm dying to hear you? Everyone else has lost interest And I'm all alone in this dream house Though you're gone, I don't feel like crying Romeo is calling you Knock once or twice if you're out there Send me a message, my sweetheart When I'm out and about, I'll be coming to see you It isn't easy to live with this matronly face at the window Try to contact me if you can see how I'm suffering Romeo is calling you Scatter the paper and thimbles You can take care of the candles An unplugged radio plays, she is close now Me and my hand-holding baby are walking the floor and the ceiling And this is the song she dictated this evening Romeo is calling Romeo is calling you

Romeo's Seance Words by Marina Thomas & Declan MacManus Music by Michael Thomas & Declan MacManus Performed by Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet Produced by Kevin Killen, Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet Musicians Elvis Costello - voice Michael Thomas - violin Ian Belton - violin Paul Cassidy - viola, second voice Jacqueline Thomas - violoncello Recorded September 14-October 1, 1992, Church Studios, London Released January 15, 1993 Albums The Juliet Letters, 1993 Promos I Almost Had A Weakness, 1993 (Germany) Excerpts From The Juliet Letters, 1993 Length 3:29 First known performance:  July 1, 1992, London, England Last known performance:  April 29, 2009, Bristol, England      (26 known performances)

Covers

Jon Boden and the Sacconi Quartet

performed live, September 2018, CLF Art Cafe, London, England,

2018

brownpapertickets.com  •  Wikipedia

Felipe Cadenasso and Cuarteto Filarmónico

performed live, July and August 2012, Santiago, Chile

2012

info  •  Programme  •  Felipe Cadenasso

Fear No Music

performed live 12 April 2011 Atlantic Theatre, Portland, Oregon

2011

Fearnomusic.org

Flinders Quartet and Vince Jones

Intimate Letters performed live, Canberra, Melbourne & Sydney, March 2012

2012

Programme Notes

Diana Gonnissen and I Musici Brucellensis

performed live, January 2011 and March 2011, Brussels and Etterbeek, Belgium

2011

info  •  Diana Gonnissen  • YouTube

Katarzyna Groniec

Listy Julii

2009

KatarzynaGroniec.pl

Idoan String Quartet

performed live, June 2010, somewhere in Spain more information needed

2010

YouTube

Kerry-Anne Kutz

The Juliet Letters

2006

AllMusic  •  Amazon.com

Vittorio Matteucci and Quartetto Paul Klee

performed live, October 2009, Centro Culturale Altinate - San Gaetano, Padova, Italy

2009

info • Vittorio Matteucci  •  Quartetto Paul Klee

Michelle Murray and David Murray

The Juliet Letters

2006

AllMusic  •  Amazon.com

Tom Norris

Tom Norris sings Elvis Costello and Brodsky Quartet's Juliet Letters

2011

wikipedia  •  soundcloud.com

Marianne Racine and Weshalb Forellen Quartett

performed live, April and May 2013, Zurich and other Swiss venues

2013

info  •  Marianne Racine

Elena Rivera y el Cuarteto LatinoAmericano

The Juliet Letters

2019

press release  •  YouTube

Drew Sarich and The Dead Poet Quartet

performed live, April 2010, Vienna and Salzburg, Austria

2010

YouTube  •  wikipedia

Tomer Sharon & the Israel Contemporary String Quartet

performed live, 18-21 February 2007, Jewish Community Centre, Vancouver, Canada

2007

website  •  YouTube  •  imdb.com

Sol String Quartet with Paul Villaluz

performed live, 6 December 2008, College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas

2008

YouTube  •  Las Vegas Sun review

Dean Stevenson and The Arco Set

performed live, October 2015, Australia and Tasmania.

2015

YouTube  • Dean Stevenson  •  info

T'ang Quartet

performed live, 15 January 2011, Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore

2011

Concert review •  T'ang Quartet

Internal links

• Elvis Costello Home Page: The Juliet Letters  •  lyrics  •  Info page
• Lyrics  •  Covers

External links

• Elvis Costello Reissues: The Juliet Letters