Elvis Costello Won’t Be Along for Brodsky’s O.C. Appearance

Tickets go on sale Sunday at 10 a.m. for a concert joining Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet at UCLA’s Royce Hall on March 14. Although the string quartet will play in Costa Mesa six days later, Costello fans shouldn’t hold out for an Orange County performance of their new collaborative album, “The Juliet Letters.”

The Costello/Brodsky tour is limited to four stops at venerable concert halls in major cities: from Royce Hall, the tour moves to Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on March 15, then across the country to Symphony Hall in Boston on March 17, and ending with a March 18 concert at Town Hall in New York.

A spokesman for Warner Bros. Records, Costello’s label, ascribed the short tour at least partly to the limited joint availability of the artists. “The Juliet Letters” has been cited by some critics as one of the finest of the prolific English singer-songwriter’s career.

After the “Juliet Letters” tour concludes in New York, the Brodsky Quartet returns to the West Coast for a March 20 concert in 299-seat Founders Hall, the final date in the Orange County Performing Arts Center’s 1992-93 Chamber Music Series. On the program are works by Shostakovich, Schumann and Beethoven.