Mario Mundstock In memory
As long as Les Luthiers spend part of the season in Spain, it will be that in the world there is a tendency to order.
The Argentine artists, winners of the 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities, will begin next Saturday, in Burgos, a tour that will take them to give
27
shows
in 14 cities in Spain
, including Madrid, Bilbao, Alicante and Malaga.
“The new show,
Old Laughing
Stock, is an anthology of our gags that appears in the form of a radio audition. It is a radio chat hosted by two so-called journalists who present a series of musical performances: there is a zarzuela, music from India, a so-called English group, a bossa nova, a jazz piece, a song that is
a praise to the bathroom executed with sanitary devices
. Instruments made for the occasion appear there, such as the nomeolbidet, the detune shower, the heater, the seat lyre...», explains J
orge Maronna, the last of the group's founders (in 1967) who is still alive and on stage
.
“We also have an epistemological cumbia, a rap, and we premiere a new instrument, something made with pots and pans, and performed by two old ladies who discuss how to make a creppe,” adds
Tomás Mayer Wolf
, still in his thirties, a member of Les Luthiers. since 2017.
“I was a boy and I saw Luthiers from below”, recalls Mayer Wolf. ·My parents took me to the theater and told me that we were going with the guarantee of two hours of laughter. From a very young age I was already heading towards music: to music, to the theater, to dedicate myself to something related to the use of words.
And all that was in Les Luthiers, through a very white humor, made for the whole family
. Several generations can understand our humor because there are many layers. It is a fine, familiar humor, based on words and very well done music. Les Luthiers' music has always had complexity and beauty."
The explanation is not superfluous because with so much having Les Luthiers in the landscape, there is a moment in which it is easy to lose the reference, forget what the essence of the group is: «When we started, we had to make a lot of effort to explain what Les Luthiers was. Luthiers because
many people did not understand it
», explains Maronna.
«At that time, we thought we were doing a concert of classical music that went wrong.
There was a more or less fixed formula: the recital was based on the parody of various genres that were spun by
a very smitten presenter
.
That was the most basic synthesis.
Over the years, the formula evolved, it was expanded further.
But the essence remained.«Les Luthiers do not make
gags
on specific politicians or on any topic that could be the cover of a newspaper.
Yes, he has made jokes about stereotypes of politicians.
But it's not the same," says Mayer Wolf.
Les Luthiers, in the 70s.
Now that only two classic faces appear in the line-up, those of Maronna and Carlos López Puccio, that essence is important.
-I recently read that at the time when you started, in the 70s, Billy Wilder
was desperate for the success of Mel Brooks and Monty Python, who were the comedians of the moment
.
He couldn't understand it.
From there I deduce that humor is a generational issue.
-Note that a few days ago, I was with my daughter, who is 16 years old and has vacations now, and I thought I would see with her
With skirts and crazy
, by BillyWilder. And, in the end, I didn't propose it to her because I was afraid that she wouldn't understand the movie. Marona explains. -I can understand Mel Brooks, because he was a brilliant comedian but sometimes he was uneven. That he didn't like Monty Python is harder for me to see... In ours, something curious happened. For a long time, our audience was our age
. We were 20 and so were they. We turn 30, 40 and 50 with the same people
.
And then there was a point where we started to see young guys in the seats.
The families brought their children, the children knew our songs.
I think it had to do with Youtube.
But it was nothing that we controlled, no conscious effort to rejuvenate them."
Mayer-Wolf confirms this.
In Madrid, a 13-year-old boy is waiting for him who has written to him to explain that he wants to show him an instrument made in the Luthier style
.
-Another thing I read is that in 1939 they premiered
Ninotchka
, which was Greta Garbo's first comedy.
The slogan they put on the posters was "See Garbo laugh." And people went like crazy.
-But did you really laugh?
-
I think so
.
At least in the photos I've seen, he laughs naturally.
-It makes me want that one of these years we will make a terrible tragedy and publicize it like this:
«Come see Les Luthiers cry»
, -Maronna finishes.
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