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I'll be damned. He actually did write a ballet. I'm astounded. | I'll be damned. He actually did write a ballet. I'm astounded. | ||
Elvis Costello has written a lot of music over the course of | Elvis Costello has written a lot of music over the course of his career — over 300 songs, according to the album's liner notes — but he'd never written a full orchestral composition. I don't know what motivated him to get up and write one, but sure enough, here we have a full score for a ballet adaptation of Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. And, go figure, it turns out that he knew what he was doing. | ||
''Il Sogno'', despite being a ballet, blends together a multitude of genres into a crazy but endearing amalgam of music. Some of the pieces are straight classical arrangements, others veer off into folk or swing, and some pieces sound torn from a film noir rather than a Shakespearean ballet. A couple of the tracks are freeform jazz, seemingly disconnected from any idea of ballet at all; I asked myself, on a couple of occasions, "How would anybody even dance to that?" | ''Il Sogno'', despite being a ballet, blends together a multitude of genres into a crazy but endearing amalgam of music. Some of the pieces are straight classical arrangements, others veer off into folk or swing, and some pieces sound torn from a film noir rather than a Shakespearean ballet. A couple of the tracks are freeform jazz, seemingly disconnected from any idea of ballet at all; I asked myself, on a couple of occasions, "How would anybody even dance to that?" |
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