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<center><h3> Blues to ballet: Elvis Costello pours a double </h3></center> | <center><h3> Blues to ballet: Elvis Costello pours a double </h3></center> | ||
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<center> Michael D. Clark </center> | <center> Michael D. Clark </center> | ||
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'''Elvis Costello's special delivery | |||
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Elvis Costello has worn many hats. Early in his 27-year recording career he was an angry young punk whose raw energy on songs like "Pump It Up" and "Radio, Radio" belied his knock-knees and heavy-rimmed glasses. He's been a bandleader, torch singer, folkie, husband to jazz pianist/vocalist Diana Krall and songwriting partner to Paul McCartney and Burt Bacharach. | Elvis Costello has worn many hats. Early in his 27-year recording career he was an angry young punk whose raw energy on songs like "Pump It Up" and "Radio, Radio" belied his knock-knees and heavy-rimmed glasses. He's been a bandleader, torch singer, folkie, husband to jazz pianist/vocalist Diana Krall and songwriting partner to Paul McCartney and Burt Bacharach. | ||
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The story of a jealous murderer, ''The Delivery Man'' has some gaps; only half the music Costello wrote was recorded. With a wide-ranging palette of pop styles, particularly R&B, country and blues, this may be his most accessible studio work in a decade. | The story of a jealous murderer, ''The Delivery Man'' has some gaps; only half the music Costello wrote was recorded. With a wide-ranging palette of pop styles, particularly R&B, country and blues, this may be his most accessible studio work in a decade. | ||
"I don't really have any connection to Irish or English folk music," says the London-born Costello, whose father was a big-band leader. "I'm much more confident with the stuff on this record, like the Memphis blues and what we called | "I don't really have any connection to Irish or English folk music," says the London-born Costello, whose father was a big-band leader. "I'm much more confident with the stuff on this record, like the Memphis blues and what we called 'beat music' when I was a kid." | ||
''Il Sogno'' (The Dream) is a dramatic contrast. Italy's Aterballeto dance company commissioned it for a recent production of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. Costello flirted with Shakespeare and classical music on 1993's ''The Juliet Letters'', recorded with the Brodsky Quartet; since then he has become a much more academic composer and interpreter. | ''Il Sogno'' (The Dream) is a dramatic contrast. Italy's Aterballeto dance company commissioned it for a recent production of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. Costello flirted with Shakespeare and classical music on 1993's ''The Juliet Letters'', recorded with the Brodsky Quartet; since then he has become a much more academic composer and interpreter. | ||
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"I collaborated with songwriter Richard Harvey on The Juliet Letters and it was very inspiring but a little frustrating, because I couldn't read (the music)," Costello says. "It really galvanized me to learn the technical skills to create arrangements." | "I collaborated with songwriter Richard Harvey on The Juliet Letters and it was very inspiring but a little frustrating, because I couldn't read (the music)," Costello says. "It really galvanized me to learn the technical skills to create arrangements." | ||
In a recent review of a live performance, Peter G. Davis, classical critic of New York magazine, praised <i>Il Sogno</i>'s "quirky melodic shapes that always keep the ear guessing, as well as an innate feeling for tangy instrumental combinations. ... It definitely adds up to a most engaging romp through Shakespeare." | In a recent [[New York, August 9, 2004|review]] of a live performance, Peter G. Davis, classical critic of ''New York'' magazine, praised <i>Il Sogno</i>'s "quirky melodic shapes that always keep the ear guessing, as well as an innate feeling for tangy instrumental combinations. ... It definitely adds up to a most engaging romp through Shakespeare." | ||
Costello knows that ''Il Sogno'' may be lost on most of his audience. He is curious about who will be listening. | Costello knows that ''Il Sogno'' may be lost on most of his audience. He is curious about who will be listening. | ||
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[[Michael D. Clark]] profiles Elvis Costello ahead of ''[[The Delivery Man]]'' and ''[[Il Sogno]]'' releases. | |||
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[[image:The Delivery Man album cover.jpg|180px|border|link=The Delivery Man]] | |||
[[image:Il Sogno album cover.jpg|180px|border|link=Il Sogno]] | |||
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