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<center><h3> Less than a dream finish as Elvis leaves the building </h3></center> | <center><h3> Less than a dream finish <br> as Elvis leaves the building </h3></center> | ||
<center>'''Elvis Costello and The Sydney Symphony'''</center | <center>''' Elvis Costello and The Sydney Symphony'''</center> | ||
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<center> Peter McCallum </center> | <center> Peter McCallum </center> | ||
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As a songwriter, Elvis Costello is adept at finding musical ideas to sketch a mood. As an orchestral concert composer, he is not quite as good at following them through, giving them continuation, further life and a sense of structure over time. Thus the suite from ''[[Il Sogno]]'', his orchestral ballet score for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, fleshed out the characters of the drama with recognisable musical symbols - noble horns and bright winds for the court, folk-like lumbering and gawky tubas for the mechanicals, and Costello twist- hot jazz licks for the fairies. | |||
The harmonies, often built from the opening tritone, had unity and cohesion but the melodic ideas tended to be stated and left out to dry, so that, without a story line, the music became bitty, directionless, and, at 50 minutes, rather long. | The harmonies, often built from the opening tritone, had unity and cohesion but the melodic ideas tended to be stated and left out to dry, so that, without a story line, the music became bitty, directionless, and, at 50 minutes, rather long. | ||
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'''Sydney Morning Herald, January 26, 2006 | '''Sydney Morning Herald, January 26, 2006 | ||
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[[Peter McCallum]] reviews Elvis Costello and [[Sydney Symphony Orchestra|The Sydney Symphony]], Wednesday, [[Concert 2006-01-25 Sydney|January 25, 2006]], Opera House, Sydney | [[Peter McCallum]] reviews Elvis Costello and [[Sydney Symphony Orchestra|The Sydney Symphony]], Wednesday, [[Concert 2006-01-25 Sydney|January 25, 2006]], Opera House, Sydney, Australia. | ||
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