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Elvis Costello says he has been listening to lots of classical music, so it's hardly a surprise that his latest release — ''The Juliet Letters'', a collaboration with the Brodsky string quartet — sounds very nearly classical. | Elvis Costello says he has been listening to lots of classical music, so it's hardly a surprise that his latest release — ''The Juliet Letters'', a collaboration with the Brodsky string quartet — sounds very nearly classical. | ||
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The scampering introduction to a song called "Swine"? That's [[Béla Bartók|Bartok]]. The melting climax in "Dead Letter"? Pure Richard Strauss. Worse yet, the borrowings are timid. Out of the vast storehouse of classical possibilities, this "mysterious" joint effort could retrieve only two or three of the most obvious ways a string quartet might accompany a voice. All too often the strings just echo the melody. You don't need a classical background to sense the resulting constriction. | The scampering introduction to a song called "Swine"? That's [[Béla Bartók|Bartok]]. The melting climax in "Dead Letter"? Pure Richard Strauss. Worse yet, the borrowings are timid. Out of the vast storehouse of classical possibilities, this "mysterious" joint effort could retrieve only two or three of the most obvious ways a string quartet might accompany a voice. All too often the strings just echo the melody. You don't need a classical background to sense the resulting constriction. | ||
What's especially sad, of course, is that Costello's rock albums overflow with teeming, trenchant musical life. Classical music, it seems, has done him no good. Instead of expanding his horizons, the dead hand of Great Art has made them severely contract. | What's especially sad, of course, is that Costello's rock albums overflow with teeming, trenchant musical life. Classical music, it seems, has done him no good. Instead of expanding his horizons, the dead hand of Great Art has made them severely contract. | ||
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