- My Funny Valentine
- Bach: Menuett
- The World Spins
- Rabekin
- Appalachia Waltz
- My Funny Valentine
- My Funny Valentine
- Ray One From Creative Force
- Curtain Calls
- My Funny Valentine
- Saint-Saens: Pas Redoublie
- Blue Snake & Zebras
発売日:2003年12月9日(火)
レーベル:Sony
レビュー (Amazon)Writer/director Robert Altman's predilection for complex character studies has focused a jaundiced eye on everything from
Nashville to the fashion industry. Here the director explores the interactions of a contemporary ballet troupe, set to a diverse pop/classical score that's anything but predictable. The dominant theme that runs throughout is the American songbook staple "My Funny Valentine," given four distinctly different idiomatic turns here by Elvis Costello, Chet Baker, the Kronos Quartet, and the piano/cello duet of Marvin Laird and Clay Ruede. The remaining source tracks range from the expected classical roots (Bach and Saint-Saens) to
Twin Peaks vocal icon Julee Cruise and the world music of Light Rain, but it's left to veteran songwriter/composer/arranger Van Dyke Parks to weave those disparate influences together in his orchestral score, a task the included excerpts argue he's accomplished with typical wit and considerable charm. --
Jerry McCulley