Sparks

Ron (left) and Russell Mael, the brothers and brains of the eclectic, enduring Sparks, spare
no buffoons or expense on Lil' Beethoven: nine songs of lethal grandeur built from Ron's
swollen waves of strings and fistfuls of piano and Russell's one-man operatic chorales. Ron
fires up his ivories and piles on the orchestra like the real Beethoven running amok in the
Brill Building, and Russell's quivering tenor - a perfect cocktail of Noel Coward a... More >