Bacharach:"A Broadway Costello," Painted from Memory "becomes a musical"
Expected at the Ravello Festival, the composer announces new collaboration with fellow English
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The title, "An evening with ...", it might seem trivial, indeed it is, but an evening with Burt Bacharach, born in 1928, is thing, say another banality, by "Magic Moments" insured. The composer with the whim of the front of the stage will return to Italy for three summer dates: July 16 at Villa Rufolo in Ravello Festival, two days after the Festival of Vittoriale in Gardone Riviera (Brescia) and 20 at La Fenice in Venice.
What to expect from his tour we know: impeccable melodies, masterpieces in the form of song (tta), chamber pop sophisticated yet immediate, advanced harmonies, mutations of agreements with unpredictable modulations, sudden changes of rhythm, sound, and yet innervated white of black culture and jazz influences. But what prepares us for his career?
"A new Broadway musical written by Elvis Costello, a true genius. Sixteen years ago we wrote an album together," Painted from Memory ", which gave us a lot of satisfaction, including a Grammy Award. the songs on that album are really successful, not surprisingly remained in the lineup so far in the concerts of Elvis as in my, now we want to take, adding six or seven new ones. We made some sample with a vocalist to understand how it could be basted musically the story of a painter who is looking for a mother for her child, but ... it's early, though, to talk about it.'s libretto should be Chuck Lorre, the creator of sitcoms like "The Big Bang Theory; the original idea was suca. The central song of all is one of the pearls of "Painted from Memory", "I still have the other girl." We still have to find the right director, and then begin the work in progress that will take us to the show. "
Waiting for "Painted from Memory - The musical", as if to repeat the success of "Promises, Promises" written in the era when Hal David was his lyricist of the golden touch, we try to look back in his glorious career: 73 songs that have been stationed in the U.S. Top 40, 52 in the English, songs like "Walk on by", "Do you know the way to San Jose", "I say to little prayer, "" The look of Love "," My little red book "," Raindrops keep falling on my head "," That's what friends are for "... She moves the first steps in the Brill Building, the music publishing factory in Manhattan.
"Between inspiration and business, new technologies and mass communication in that building would meet the lords of the song. Folks who called Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Phil Spector, Paul Simon, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Laura Nyro. But for me it was a period of compromises and frustrations, I worked badly, it was as if the things that I signed had written another. "
Remember with great pleasure the engagement as a conductor for Marlene Dietrich from 1958 to 1965?
"I would say so, allowed me to travel the world and to understand the craft of making music, showing how to work with such a diva, how to behave with the orchestra, how to master the stage, how to deal with the public."
Then he began to play with his suspended chords, find arrangements that came to found a new form of pop songs, not always understood by critics, who found it too bourgeois and elaborate, but much loved by the public. Often thanks to the voice of Dionne Warwick, his interpreter fetish.
"I like women, not surprisingly I got four weddings. And I like to write for female voices. And do not know anyone who does not like to write to the uvula of silk and sun Dionne: its sensitivity was and is amazing. "
In 1970 he won the Oscar for the soundtrack of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and the song "Raindrops keep falling on my head" song from the movie launched, in 1982, came to share three with the theme of "Arthur." And other than his other hits, from "Alfie" to "The Look of Love", have origins film. As he was composing for the big screen?
"Good, but not followed, indeed not even looked at the pictures. Tried, rather, to follow the emotions that the director brought on screen."
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