Kathy,
Queen of the Saloon
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"Los
Clásicos de Les Luthiers"
Teatro Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, NY, USA, 2 de noviembre, 1980. |
MM: While living in Paris, the composer Raymond Drinkstein had been a piano player at the silent movies, working at the celebrated Vieux Royal, a favorite watering-hole of the intellectual avant-garde. DR: What a dame! MM: In those days, a tender teenager, named Henriette, used to sit next to Drinkstein on the narrow stool, closely chaperoned by her mother, Madame Leforquier. With Henriette at his side, Drinkstein pounded the piano to illustrate the movies, which were bereft of sound. Henriette, luckily for her, was bereft of hearing. And the mother, luckily for Drinkstein, was bereft of sight. Musically
speaking, this period of Drinkstein's was not particularly brilliant,
since with the darkness of the hall, plus the closeness of Henriette to
the keyboard, Drinkstein completely lost control over where he put-down
his hands. The most outstanding work at this stage of Drinkstein's career
was the music he composed to accompany a classic of the silent screen:
"Kathy, queen of the saloon", a film by Dan Luther. Luther...
loser of several Oscars... this forgettable director tells us a typical
story of the wild west, in which a heroic cowboy saves the beautiful heroine
from the clutches of a misshapen villain. (Carlos
Núñez Cortés, interpreta en el piano la música
de
la película muda que representan el resto de los luthiers) |
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