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If I had noticed that ''Welcome to the Voice'' was released on Deutsche Grammophon, I would have thought more about buying it. Or longer. But I was still in the mode of remembering when Elvis Costello introduced Nieve near the end of the recent [[Concert 2007-05-11 Detroit|Detroit show]]; he mentioned there was a forthcoming disc from Nieve, the maestro. So I didn't notice. I didn't stop and think. And now I have done my financial bit to support music that I'm not particularly interested in listening to. There are two reasons why this is so. | |||
I'm not taken with the vocal stylings of Sting. And for many intents and purposes, ''Welcome to the Voice'' is a Sting-dominated recording. One might argue that the Brodsky Quartet is featured just as prominently, given their musical accompaniment, but Sting even trumps Barbara Bonney, a soprano opera singer, who sings the role of, well, the Opera Singer for whom Sting's character, Dionysos, lusts. Robert Wyatt also sings quite a bit on the record, and when I think back to the Soft Machine selections that I enjoyed, I realize they were instrumentals. Costello does a couple of turns, as well, but comparatively speaking, they're but cameos. So if I wanted to listen to Sting perform as he did when interpreting the work of Brecht and Weill, then I would have dug out a cassette of Lost in the Stars. | |||
Which brings me to the second reason. Steve Nieve attended the Royal College of Music. He joined Costello in 1977. Back then, music by the likes of the Attractions was a reaction, in part, to the more elaborate music that was being produced by bands like Emerson, Lake and Palmer: think only of ''Pictures at an Exhibition''. Possibly Nieve has been harboring a desire to pay off all of that studying he once did. So he, along with librettist Muriel Teodori, created this operatic work. This is no ''Tommy''. It is not a "rock opera." This is in some ways closer to ''Preservation: Act 1'', the music hall-turn-styled work of the Kinks. Yet WTTV is far more exquisite, its moderately raucous theme notwithstanding (i.e., Dionysos is a steelworker who is smitten with the Diva in more than a passing manner). While I respect Nieve's desire to produce something other than variations on Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Brian Wilson, or whomever, I am simply not a great fan of the operatic turn. | |||
Which brings me to the second reason. Steve Nieve attended the Royal College of Music. He joined Costello in 1977. Back then, music by the likes of the Attractions was a reaction, in part, to the more elaborate music that was being produced by bands like Emerson, Lake and Palmer: think only of ''Pictures at an Exhibition''. Possibly Nieve has been harboring a desire to pay off all of that studying he once did. So he, along with librettist Muriel Teodori, created this operatic work. This is no ''Tommy''. It is not a | |||
Lots of streaming interviews, song clips and videos at the [http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/special/?ID=welcometothevoice-enter Welcome to the Voice mini-site]. | Lots of streaming interviews, song clips and videos at the [http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/special/?ID=welcometothevoice-enter Welcome to the Voice mini-site]. | ||
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