The Juliet Letters: Music of Elvis Costello, Paul Cassidy, and the Brodsky Quartet
The Juliet Letters: Music of Elvis Costello, Paul Cassidy, and the Brodsky Quartet
Thu, 03/27/2008 - 1:34pm — Pick-Staiger- Start:
- Mon, 03/31/2008 - 7:30pm
- End:
- Mon, 03/31/2008 - 9:30pm
Featuring Devin DeSantis and the Mercutio String Quartet
Ryan T. Nelson, conductor
Thursday, April 10, 7:30 p.m.Lutkin Hall
The 1993 collaboration between pop star Elvis Costello and England's renowned Brodsky String Quartet was inspired by reports of a Verona professor who was answering letters he found addressed to Juliet Capulet. The result was a critically acclaimed series of 20 dramatic ballads, influenced by the songs of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, in which male and female characters of varying ages and degrees of sanity tell stories of love, betrayal, and death. Don't miss this little-known theatrical, musical gem.
