Sol la si la sol la do do si
(Espectáculo "Los clásicos de Les Luthiers" en inglés)

Marcos Mundstock:

The Viennese composer Franz Schutzwarg was a really precocious child. At the age of three, when a score was placed before him, he could read the music to perfection. At the age of four, his father bought him another score.

One of the musicians who studied with Schutzwarg was our earlier acquaintance Hans Glockenkranz, who began to take lessons with Schutzwarg when he was five years old. Schutzwarg, that is. Glockenkranz was 23. At the lessons held by tiny Schutzwarg, it was not unusual to hear him telling one of his pupils: “If you are so kind, finish counterpoint exercise number two, and afterwards, please, can you take me to do number one?”

As an encore, Les Luthiers will now perform one lied from Schutzwarg’scycle of songs “Der Tutti Fruhling”. The “Die Wiener Zeitung” critic analyzed this lied in the following manner: The song begins with a very bucolic theme which presents our hero strolling through a flower-filled meadow. The second theme is that of the birds which fill the park. Suddenly the second theme is interrupted by the appearance of the third them, of a threatening character. It portends the storm. A sub-theme also appears but does not portend the storm...it is the storm. Finally, the storms retreats. There then reappears the initial theme: nature experiences a luminous rebirth as if forecasting renewed joy, a sunny future and a slight rise in temperature.

This lied is called “Sol la ti la sol la do do ti”, and was evidently composed by the precocious Schutzwarg before he had learned to talk.


Marcos Mundstock:
Sol la si la sol la do do si
sol la sol fa mi re fa si
sol la si la sol la do do si
la sol sol fa mi do si re fa
fa sostenido sol fa sol fa mi fa mi la si

Pipipi sol si re
fa mi pipí
currucucú
do si do mi la re
prr prr prr
cu-cu la sol si re
cri-cri sol do
mre be be be
do si do mi cua-cua

Sol la si la sol la do do si
sol la sol fa mi re...
Sol la si la sol la do do si
la sol sol fa mi do si re fa
fa sostenido sol fa sol fa mi fa mi la si

Sol si la la, sol si la mi
sol si sol do
sol si sol do la re
fa sol la si la la re
la si fa re si sol la
la si do re mi fa sol
si la sol fa mi mi fa
fa sol la si la la fa
fa mi re do sol la
la re re mi fa
re re re mi fa sol la
si do re mi re re sol

Sol... sol la... sol...

(Toses y cambio de roles)

Carlos Núñez Cortés:
Sol la si la sol la do do si
sol la sol fa mi re fa si
Sol la si la sol la do do si
la sol sol fa mi do si re fa
fa sostenido sol fa sol fa mi fa mi la si

(Cambio de roles)

Marcos Mundstock:
Sol la si la sol la do do si
sol la sol fa mi re fa si
Sol la si la sol la do do si
la sol sol fa mi do si re fa
fa sostenido sol fa sol fa mi fa mi la si