Kathy, Queen of the Saloon
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.
Here is Raymond
Drinkstein's musical accompaniment for the silent movie "Kathy, queen of
the saloon", in its original version for piano solo.
(Carlos
Núñez Cortés, interpreta en el piano la música de
la película muda que representan el resto de los luthiers)
Esta obra formaba parte de los espectáculos:
"Mastropiero que Nunca" (1977)
"Los Clásicos de Les Luthiers" (1980)
"Los Clásicos EEUU" (1980)
"Recital sinfónico 86" (1986)
"Humor Dulce Hogar" (1987) en reemplazo de "Truthful Lulu pulls thru zulus"
"Grandes Hitos" (1992)Videograbación:
DVD 1 "Mastropiero que nunca"
DVD 3 "Grandes Hitos"
