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«In coppia anche sul palco? Rifiuto l’esempio di
Springsteen, Patti Scialfa è la sua ombra»

Costello: mia moglie Diana è una star, non duetto con
lei

«Sì, sono felice», ammette Elvis Costello. Per l’uomo
nato insieme al rock’n’roll (a Londra, il 25 agosto
del 1954) questo è un periodo da favola. Ha pubblicato
il «Sogno», musica per balletto, e il rockettaro «The
Delivery Man», ha ottenuto 4 nomination ai Grammy,
lavora a un’opera sulla vita di Hans Christian
Andersen. Ma soprattutto, da poco più di un anno, ha
sposato Diana Krall, bionda regina dello «smooth jazz»
Ora è in tour con gli Imposters. Arriverà il 5
febbraio all’Auditorium Verdi di Milano, il giorno
dopo al Parco della Musica di Roma. «Ci sarà molto
rock’n’roll, con le canzoni nuove, certo. E ne
resuscito altre perse nella memoria», racconta.

C’entra Diana nella sua nuova felicità?

«L’amore dà dei vantaggi, come negarlo? Ma nella vita
di tutti esistono momenti duri anche quando si è
innamorati. Però mai come ora mi sento appagato».

Stare insieme per due artisti spesso è difficile...

«Adesso io sono a Berlino, lei in Brasile. Ci vediamo
poco, ma è il lato romantico del nostro rapporto. Il
momento più bello della mia giornata è parlarle al
telefono».

Non avete pensato a un tour insieme?

«Forse, se lo facessimo, si perderebbe la magia. Ci è
capitato di stare su uno stesso palco: l’estate scorsa
per i 25 anni del festival jazz di Montreal, un’altra
volta per beneficenza. Ma sono serate rare».

C’è chi mischia pubblico e privato, come Bruce
Springsteen e Patti Scialfa.

«Lei è brava, peccato il suo talento sia oscurato.
Diana non ha bisogno di me, quando l’ho conosciuta era
parecchio avanti nella sua carriera. E io avevo tutti
i suoi dischi. È stato emozionante lavorare al suo
ultimo album. Aveva appena perso la madre, l’ho
aiutata a riordinare quello che aveva scritto. C’è
complicità fra noi, ma non è una coalizione».

Non le manca nulla?

«È un momento terribile per il mondo, può un musicista
lagnarsi? La mia carriera è stata sempre casuale. I
successi, i premi e i primi posti in classifica sono
arrivati senza che li cercassi. Non ho mai pensato ai
consensi. Sono saltato da un progetto all’altro
secondo l’estro».

Per questo ha accettato di lavorare per la Royal
Danish Opera?

«Il melodramma l’ho sempre sentito vicino, mia madre
aveva origini italiane. Poi mi affascinavano il
rapporto e la passione fra Andersen e il soprano
svedese Jenny Lind. Ma non scriverò un’opera alla
maniera di Puccini... come potrei? La trama assomiglia
a una fiction ma le mie canzoni racconteranno una
storia umana. E non sarà una favola a lieto fine».

Sandra Cesarale

Spettacoli

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Google translation -

"In brace also on the theater box? Refusal the
example of Springsteen, Scialfa Pacts is its shadow
"Studs: my moglie Diana is a star, not duetto with
she "Yes, is happy", admits Elvis Costello.

For the born man with to the rock' n' roll (to
London, 25 August of the 1954) this is a period from
fable. It has published the "Dream", music for
ballet, and rockettaro "the The Delivery Man", has
obtained 4 nomination to the Grammy, works to a work
on the life of Hans Christian Andersen. But above
all, from little more than a year, it has married
Diana Krall, blond woman Queen of "smooth jazz" the
Hour is in tour with the Imposters. It will arrive 5
February to the Auditorium Greens of Milan, the day
after to the Park of Music of Rome.

"there will be a lot rock' n' roll, with the new
songs, sure. And of resuscito others lost in the
memory ", tells.

There enters Diana in its new happiness?

"the love gives of the advantages, like denying it?
But in the life of all hard moments exist also when it
is in love. But never as hour I feel myself satisfied
".

To be entirety for two artists often is difficult...

"Now I am to Berlin, she in Brasi them. We look at
ourselves little, but it is the romantico side of our
relationship. The beautifulr moment of my day is to
speak them to the telephone ".

You have not thought next to a tour together?

"Perhaps, if we made it, the magic would get lost.
It is capitato to us to be on one same theater box:
the past summer for the 25 years of the festival jazz
of Montreal, an other time for beneficence. But they
are rare evenings ".

There is who public and private fray, like Bruce
Springsteen and Patti Scialfa.

"It is good, sin its talent is darkened. Diana does
not have need of me, when I have known it was much
ahead in its career. And I had all its discs. He has
been moving to work to its last album. He had as soon
as lost the mother, I have helped it to reorder what
he had written. There is complicity between we, but
coalition is not one ".

It does not lack to them null?

"It is a terrible moment for the world, can a
musician lagnarsi? My career has been always
accidental. The successes, the prizes and the first
places in classify are arrive to you without that you
tried them. I have not never thought next to the
consents. They are jumped from a plan to the other
second the estro ".

For this it has accepted to work for the Royal Danish
Work?

"melodramma I have always felt it close, my mother
had Italian origins. Then the relationship and the
passion between Andersen and the Swedish soprano Jenny
Lind fascinated me. But I will not write a work to
the way of Puccini... as I could? The weft is similar
a fiction but my songs will tell one human history.
And fable to lieto fine will not be one ".

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MÚSICA // CONCIERTO
Costello: "Me da igual si no sueno más en la radio"

• El cantante defiende su integridad artística una
semana antes de la gira española

NANDO CRUZ
BARCELONA

El rigor del invierno también está afectando a la
garganta de Elvis Costello, pero el feroz cantante
inglés defiende con uñas y dientes su carrera e
integridad artística. La primera la salvaguarda con
una gira que lo traerá a Barcelona el próximo jueves.
La segunda pocos la ponen en duda. El hiperactivo
Costello siempre hace la música que le viene en gana.
Se ha ganado enemigos en todos los estamentos de la
industria discográfica y hoy se habrá ganado alguno
más.
La razón, sus opiniones sobre el mundo radiofónico.
Mientras otros artistas de su edad lamentan que las
emisoras no programen su música, Elvis Costello lo
celebra: "La radio es estúpidamente aburrida y su
influencia en mí es nula. No siento ningún respeto por
ella y, por lo tanto, no quiero su respeto. Es un
enemigo de la creatividad en la música. No me importa
si nunca más ponen un disco mío en la radio", anuncia.
Luego matiza, pero sin retroceder un centímetro: "Me
gusta tocar en directo en la radio o en televisión,
pero la idea de ajustarme a los dictados de la radio
es absurda. Y si es absurda cuando tienes 18 aún lo es
más a los 50".

GENTE JOVEN, ROCK ADULTO
Costello sabe que hoy puede sobrevivir sin necesidad
de arrodillarse ante las exigencias del mercado. Y
también sabe que su público agradece la existencia de
un cantante que elude tópicos y fórmulas. Que asume la
creación musical y poética como un deporte de riesgo
artístico. "Creo que la gente ya sabe que no me rijo
por las ideas más simples de lo que se supone que es
una canción de pop o rock y que me gusta combinar
elementos de una forma inusual. Pero eso no significa
que todo lo que haga sea complicado o difícil de
disfrutar", aclara.
Tras 30 años de carrera, lamenta que en Inglaterra
sólo le siga el público adulto. "Allí la cultura
musical está tan compartimentada que es muy difícil
romper la barrera de la edad". Pero en esta gira, y
gracias al talante más rock de The delivery man, ha
ampliado el espectro de su público. "Cuando llego a
una ciudad me gusta notar que toco para una
representación de toda la comunidad y no sólo para un
sector: hombres de determinada edad". Dicho esto,
lanza un consejo: "Los jóvenes deberían escuchar
música de artistas de otras generaciones. Si cierran
los oídos a músicos mayores se están perdiendo cosas".
The delivery man es un disco de sonido rugoso y
enérgico, estructurado "desde una perspectiva de
intérprete y no como una pieza dramática en la que la
gente ha de entender la historia antes de empezar a
disfrutarla". Ahora incluso establece vínculos con
viejas canciones. "En mi primer disco compuse Blame it
on Cain y el protagonista de este disco se llama Abel.
Son canciones con 27 años de diferencia, pero con
nexos comunes". Tal vez la toque en Barcelona. El
repertorio de la gira se nutre de unas 60 canciones.
Instalado en Estados Unidos, Costello presenta su obra
más americana desde King of America. En sus canciones
subyace la violencia latente de la sociedad
norteamericana. Y aunque alguna está planteada desde
una perspectiva post-11 de septiembre, él no ha
querido hacer un disco al respecto. "He oído muchas
canciones huecas y otras, emocionadas, pero no tengo
ni creo que nadie tenga una conclusión o solución
definitiva que proponer al respecto en una canción
--intuye--. Y tampoco creo que sea mi responsabilidad
decir a la gente qué ha de pensar".
The delivery man llega justo después de North, el
disco que compuso tras la ruptura amorosa con su
esposa Cait O'Riordan y en pleno idilio con la
cantante de jazz Diana Krall. Fue recibido con tal
disparidad de opiniones que exige una defensa por su
parte. "A nivel poético es increíblemente
transparente. A nivel vocal, no grito: canto de un
modo muy natural. Todo eso lo convierte en una
experiencia muy auténtica", subraya. "En mi opinión,
es uno de mis mejores cinco discos. Musicalmente es
superior a cuatro o cinco de las que se consideran mis
grandes obras. Tiene más sustancia musical y
originalidad", afirma, tan seguro de sí mismo como
siempre.

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Google translation -
The rigor of the winter also is affecting the throat
of Elvis Costello, but the ferocious English singer
defends with nails and teeth his race and artistic
integrity. First he safeguard it with a tour that
will bring to Barcelona the next Thursday. The second
few put it in doubt. The hyperactive Costello always
makes the music that comes to him in desire. One has
gained enemy in all the estates of the record industry
and today some will have gained more. The reason, its
opinions on the wireless world. While other artists
of their age are sorry that the transmitters do not
program their music, Elvis Costello celebrates it:
"the radio is stupidly boring and its influence in me
is null. I do not feel any respect by her and,
therefore, I do not want its respect. He is an enemy
of the creativity in music. It does not matter to me
if never more they put a disc mine in the radio ",
announces.

Soon it clarifies, but without backing down a
centimeter: "I like to touch in direct in the radio
or television, but the idea to fit me to the
dictations of the radio is absurd. And if she is
absurd when you still have 18 it is it more to 50".

YOUNG PEOPLE, ADULT ROCK

Costello know that today she can with no need survive
to kneel down before the exigencies of the market.
And also she knows that his public thanks for the
existence of a singer who eludes topics and formulas.
That it assumes the musical and poetic creation as a
sport of artistic risk. "I believe that people or
know that I do not prevail to me by the simple ideas
the more of which she supposes that it is a song of
pop or rock and that I like to combine elements of an
unusual form. But that does not mean that everything
what does is complicated or difficult to enjoy ",
clarifies.

After 30 years of race, it is sorry that in England
to only it follows the adult public him. "There the
musical culture is so bulkhead that it is very
difficult to break the barrier of the age". But in
this tour, and thanks to the will more rock of The
delivery man, has extended the phantom of their
public. "When I arrive at a city I it likes to notice
that I touch for a representation of all the community
and not only for a sector: men of certain age ".
Said this, an advice sends: "the young people would
have to listen to music of artists of other
generations. If they close the ears to greater
musicians they are losing things ". The delivery man
is a disc of rough and energetic sound, structured
"from a perspective of interpreter and not like a
dramatic piece in which people have to understand
history before beginning to enjoy it". Now even it
establishes bonds with old songs. "In my first disc I
composed Blame it on Cain and the protagonist of this
disc is called Abel. They are songs with 27 years of
difference, but with common nexuses ". Perhaps the
touch in Barcelona. The repertoire of the tour is
nourished of 60 songs.

Installed in the United States, Costello
presents/displays its American work from King of
America. In its songs the latent violence of the
North American society sublies. And although some is
raised from a perspective post-11 of September, he has
not wanted to make a disc on the matter. "I have
heard many hollow songs and others, moved, but I do
not have nor I believe that nobody has a conclusion or
definitive solution that to propose on the matter in a
song -- intuits --, and either I do not believe that
it is my responsibility to say to people what is to
think".

The delivery man arrives just after North, the disc
that composed after the loving rupture with its wife
Cait ÓRiordan and in the heat of idilio with the jazz
singer Krall Morning call. It was received with such
disparity of opinions that demands a defense on the
other hand. "At poetic level he is incredibly
transparent. At vocal level, nonshout: song of a
very natural way. All that turns it a very authentic
experience ", emphasizes. "In my opinion, he is one
of my better five discs. Musically he is superior to
four or five of that my great works are considered.
It has more musical substance and originality ",
affirms, so surely of itself as always.