The Juliet Letters

The Juliet Letters is a 1993 album by Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet. Costello says, "It's called a song sequence for string quartet and voice and it has a title. It's a little bit different. It's not a rock opera. It's a new...

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...recording (with Fretwork and the Composers Ensemble) of Dowland's "Can she excuse my wrongs" as a bonus track on the 2006 re-release of his The Juliet Letters. In October 2006, Sting , who has been described as a fan of Dowland's music ,...

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...released in 1980. Costello released a tune called "How to Be Dumb" before Hornby published "How to Be Good." Finally, Costello's album "The Juliet Letters" came out in 1993. Is there any connection to his choosing Juliet for his new book?

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...three decades, from regular set-opener Accidents Will Happen to new and, as yet, unrecorded songs. Those who came expecting The Juliet Letters (the song cycle he wrote with the Brodskys) were rewarded with six of those songs, but few of the...

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...in the hush of a classical space. Such confusion has followed Costello for most of the 15 years since his album with the Quartet, The Juliet Letters, announced his interests had outgrown even the restless pop pastiches of his earlier work.

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...coat-tails while he has pursued a trajectory through rather less popular music has reaped some rich rewards. When he released The Juliet Letters, his 1993 collaboration with the Brodsky Quartet, some suspected the onset of creative...

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The main event at College of Southern Nevada's fall dance concert this weekend was the premiere of "The Juliet Letters," a new work by Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer Kelly Roth. An hourlong suite set to Elvis Costello's 1993...

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...previous encounters with the Brodsky in a concert that includes extracts from their superb recording (and TV) collaboration of the 1990s, the Juliet Letters, as well as offering new material. Then in May the Brodsky team up with soprano...

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...than anything Costello has attempted during his decidedly uncommercial excursions into country ("Almost Blue"), classical ("The Juliet Letters") and torch-song music ("North"). These days, music companies, like everyone else, want to...

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...he taught himself how to compose on paper, originally to create scores for small ensembles, beginning with the Brodsky Quartet on 1993's "The Juliet Letters." Costello sensed that some of his ideas were getting lost because he couldn't...

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