I've been listening to William Finn's song cycle, Elegies, and I've noticed something rather peculiar.
Not in what I've been hearing, but in the reading that goes with the hearing, and well, with the hearing, too.
The disc, for those who haven't encountered it yet, consists of a series of songs, tributes to people Finn has known who are no longer with us, or with him. The songs are sung by Christian Borle, Betty Buckley, Carolee Carmello, Keith Byron Kirk, and Michael Rupert, singularly and in groupings. The singers are accompanied, quite well, by a solo pianist.
So I'm hearing this pianist, and I'm looking on the back cover, and the front cover, and all through the CD booklet, and there is no indication of who is playing the piano.
I find this strange.
I mean, I suppose they could have been accompanied by a player piano. It's possible. But then, I would have expected some credit given on the back of the cover, or somewhere in the booklet, to whoever it was who programmed the player piano.
Or at least to whoever it was who plugged in the player piano.
But nothing of the sort is to be found anywhere on the back cover. Or the front cover. Or anywhere in the booklet.
How sad.
And how sloppy.
