"Los
Clásicos de Les Luthiers"
Teatro Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, NY, USA, 2 de noviembre, 1980.
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MM: The organizers
of this recital beg the forgiveness of the audience in the face of the
possible difficulties of comprehension which the reading of these texts
may give rise to. It so happens that the person who is addressing you
doesn't understand a word of what he's reading.
We will
begin this recital with a work by Hans Glockenkranz, a composer born in
München, the capital of Bavaria. Hans Glockenkranz's mother, named
Anneliese Glockenkranz, was a woman of great beauty, a great lover of
music, of painting and of poets. Han's father... was away at war. One
day, at the age of two, tiny Hans went over to the piano and clumsily
tried to imitate a tune he'd heard somewhere. Exactly as he would do throughout
his entire career as a composer. While still a teenager, he composed the
first of his famous works: the popular hymn dedicated to his native Bavaria,
entitled: "O beer, thy quality is unbavariable". But his paramount
achievement is constituted by an imposing tetralogy based on one particular
side of the legend of the Nibelungs: their magic ring. Therefore he called
it: "The ring side of the Nibelungs".
The first of these four operas, which was intended as a prologue to the
tetralogy, has never been performed. Which is specially regrettable because
the second opera is suspected to be apocryphal, the third has mysteriously
been lost, and Glockenkranz's death prevented him from composing the fourth.
The fragment we shall now hear belongs precisely to that fourth opera.
We refer to "Death and farewell -in that order - of the god Brotan".
For the depth of the dramatic conflict to be fully understood by an English-speaking
audience, this version includes the services of a simultaneous translator.
Let's hear Les Luthiers in "Death and farewell - in that order -
of the god Brotan" from "The ring-side of the Nibelungs"
by Hans Glockenkranz.
(no
hay trascripción de la obra en inglés)
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