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The final performance of [[Burt Bacharach]]'s enchanting three-night-stand in Dublin is one of pure joy. Where pop's modern breed of uninspired transients lip-sync three-song PAs in soulless scream-fests, Burt chooses the confined elegance of the National Concert Hall to unveil his timeless revue. And although tonight the timpani and violins are formatted into rather complicated-looking synthesiser set-ups, we are nonetheless swept off our feet by the endless hooks and lifts and poignant dips and dramatic crescendos. | The final performance of [[Burt Bacharach]]'s enchanting three-night-stand in Dublin is one of pure joy. Where pop's modern breed of uninspired transients lip-sync three-song PAs in soulless scream-fests, Burt chooses the confined elegance of the [[National Concert Hall]] to unveil his timeless revue. And although tonight the timpani and violins are formatted into rather complicated-looking synthesiser set-ups, we are nonetheless swept off our feet by the endless hooks and lifts and poignant dips and dramatic crescendos. | ||
Burt, of course, is centre-stage, tingling his fingers over a suitably austere black grand piano, with a scaled down line-up of bass, drums,trumpet, saxophone and three vocalists all awaiting his flamboyant direction. The hits (literally every tune) are often strewn together into heavenly medleys and miniature symphonies of golden age pop, glued together with knock-out chord sequences. The words, mostly those of the second-half of Burt's ubiquitous ampersand, [[Hal David]], are performed by his singers with the same soulful panache of [[Dionne Warwick]] or [[Aretha Franklin]] or Sandie Shaw. | Burt, of course, is centre-stage, tingling his fingers over a suitably austere black grand piano, with a scaled down line-up of bass, drums,trumpet, saxophone and three vocalists all awaiting his flamboyant direction. The hits (literally every tune) are often strewn together into heavenly medleys and miniature symphonies of golden age pop, glued together with knock-out chord sequences. The words, mostly those of the second-half of Burt's ubiquitous ampersand, [[Hal David]], are performed by his singers with the same soulful panache of [[Dionne Warwick]] or [[Aretha Franklin]] or Sandie Shaw. |
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