Les Luthiers
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Les Luthiers is an Argentine comedy-musical group, very popular also in several other
Musical stylings
Les Luthiers began writing humorous pieces primarily in a
Les Luthiers have acknowledged the influence of
Mr. Hoffnung predated both acts, starting in 1956 the Hoffnung Music Festival and publishing many cartoons with imaginary instruments for a classical orchestra. Malcolm Arnold probably was the first person to write a parody of classical music using odd instruments when he wrote for a Hoffnung Concert the score of A Grand, Grand Overture, a piece for orchestra and vacuum cleaners dedicated to US President Herbert Hoover.[2]
Informal instruments
Les Luthiers are known in particular for employing a diverse ensemble of invented instruments created from common, everyday materials. The group's first home-made musical instrument, the bass-pipe a vara (a sort of trombone), was created by Gerardo Masana, the founder of the group, by joining paperboard tubes found in the garbage and miscellaneous items. Forty years later, this instrument is still being used on stage.
The first informal instruments were relatively simple, like the Gum-Horn, made with a hose, a
Inventor and instrument-maker
, and others.After Iraldi's death in 1995 Hugo Domínguez took his place, and made instruments such as the desafinaducha, the nomeolbídet etc.
Current members
- Carlos López Puccio: Bowed Strings (violin, viola, cello), synthesizers, piano, vocals, percussion (in some jazz songs), dactilophone, etc.
- Jorge Maronna: Vocals, fretted strings (guitar, bass, banjo, charango, lute, cuatro...), cello, synthesizers, etc.
- Roberto Antier: Vocals
- Tomás Mayer-Wolf: Piano, vocals
- Martin O'Connor: Vocals
- Horacio Turano: Vocals, drums, bass pipe, bass guitar, piano, saxophone
Former members
- Gerardo Masana, founder (died in 1973): Guitar, bass-pipe, vocals, percussion, etc.
- Ernesto Acher (left the group in 1986): Piano, horn, trumpet, clarinet, drums, synthesizers, cello, vocals, etc.
- Daniel Rabinovich (died in 2015):[3] Vocals, guitar, violin, bass-pipe, sousaphone, recorder, drums, etc.
- Carlos Núñez Cortés (left the group in 2017): Piano, vocals, recorder, accordion, piccolo, Bunsen flute, synthesizer, dactilophone, tambourine, washboard, etc.
- Marcos Mundstock: (died in 2020):[4] Vocals, percussion, trumpet, synthesizer, etc.
Shows
- Les Luthiers cuentan la ópera (1967)
- Todos somos mala gente (1968)
- Blancanieves y los siete pecados capitales (1969)
- Querida condesa (1969)
- Opus pi (1971)
- Recital '72 (1972)
- Recital sinfónico '72 (1972)
- Recital '73 (1973)
- Recital '74 (1974)
- Recital '75 (1975)
- Viejos fracasos (1976)
- Mastropiero que nunca (1977)
- Les Luthiers hacen muchas gracias de nada(1979)
- Los clásicos de Les Luthiers (1980)
- Luthierías (1981)
- Por humor al arte (1983)
- Humor dulce hogar (1985)
- Recital sinfónico '86 (1986)
- Viegésimo aniversario (1987)
- El reír de los Cantares (1989)
- Grandes Hitos (1992)
- Unen canto con humor (1994)
- Bromato de armonio (1996)
- Todo por que rías (1999)
- ¡Do, Re, Mi, Já! (2000)
- El Grosso Concerto (2001)
- Las obras de ayer (2002)
- Con Les Luthiers y sinfónica (2004)
- ¡Aquí Les Luthiers! (2005)
- Los premios Mastropiero (2005)
- 40 años (2007)
- Lutherapia (2008)
- ¡Chist! (2011)
- Viejos hazmerreíres (2014)
- Gran reserva (2017)
- Más tropiezos de Mastropiero (2022)
Discography
- Sonamos Pese A Todo (1971)
- Cantata Laxatón (1972)
- Les Luthiers (volumen 3) (1973)
- Les Luthiers (volumen 4) (1976)
- Mastropiero que nunca (1979)
- Muchas gracias de nada(1980)
- Les Luthiers (volumen 7) (1983)
- Cardoso en Gulevandia (1991)
- Les Luthiers En Vivos (2007)
- Les Luthiers Mas Vivos (2013)
Awards
- 2017
- 2011 Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
- ISBN 9788495894960.
- ^ "Another Evening of Hoffnung". The Times. 11 February 1963. p. 5.
- ^ "Daniel Rabinovich, Member of Argentine Comedy-Musical Group Les Luthiers, Dies at 71". Billboard. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
- ^ Grijelmo, Àlex (22 April 2020). "Muere Marcos Mundstock, narrador de Les Luthiers, el mayor ingenio de las palabras". El País.
- ^ Cué, Carlos E. (2017-05-11). "Les Luthiers, Premio Princesa de Asturias de Comunicación y Humanidades 2017". EL PAÍS (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-05-17.
- ^ "Argentine comedy group Les Luthiers wins top Spanish prize". NY Daily News. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
External links
- Official Site (in Spanish)
- Les Luthiers discography at Discogs
- La página de Les Luthiers de Patrick (in Spanish)
- Les Luthiers Chile (in Spanish)
- Les Luthiers, Pese a todo (in Spanish)
- Les Luthiers y los Jóvenes de Hoy en Día (in Spanish)
- Los Luthiers de la Web (in Spanish)