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<center><h3> Less than a dream finish | <center><h3> Less than a dream finish as Elvis leaves{{nb}}the{{nb}}building </h3></center> | ||
<center>''' Elvis Costello and The Sydney Symphony'''</center> | <center>''' Elvis Costello and The Sydney Symphony'''</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 '' | 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, Australia. | [[Peter McCallum]] reviews Elvis Costello with [[Steve Nieve]] and [[Sydney Symphony Orchestra|The Sydney Symphony]], Wednesday, [[Concert 2006-01-25 Sydney|January 25, 2006]], Opera House, Sydney, Australia. | ||
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