Rhapsody in Balls

[Sigma_Orionis]

Les Luthiers - Rhapsody in Balls

The first two minutes are a very funny and extremely hard to translate dialog in Spanish, so please skip it.

[SciFiFisher]

Very entertaining.

[cid]

.. .. for a moment on reading the thread title, I thought it would be a review of a pr0n flick...

[Sigma_Orionis]

Good Grief! what a filthy mind!

[cid]

Good Grief! what a filthy mind!

Oh sure, like I was the only one who thought of that, even for an instant...you give your fellow FWISers too little credit.

[Cyborg Girl]

... Those balls wouldn't happen to be blue balls, would they?

*runs*

[cid]

... Those balls wouldn't happen to be blue balls, would they?

*runs*

I could say something about how you could determine that, but I won't...
I'll sure as h3ll THINK it, but I won't say it...

[Sigma_Orionis]

Gee Willikers! George Gershwin would be sooooooooo disappointed

[code monkey]

my heavens, you guys are certainly in love with your organs. (no jokes about pianos, please. it's been done. to death.)

sigma, that was funny. i see you and raise -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5EkbTPPuSo

or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnsyxQ3I8JU

[Sigma_Orionis]

Well Well Well Mr Mono!

You have just introduced me Peter Schickele's P.D.Q. Bach whom is the US equivalent of (the group that plays Rhapsody in Balls) Les Luthiers' Johann Sebastian Mastropiero.

Seriously, I had never seen something like Les Luthiers outside of Latin America, thanks

[code monkey]

oh my gosh, really? you're very welcome, sigma. glad to return the favor as you've introduced me to les luthiers.

i've attended a few concerts and have a number of his records. he always made an unconventional, late entrance. ofter running down the aisle although he did throw a rope over the balcony and slide down. i think that this was at carnegie hall. eine kleine nichtmusik is a classic and he'd explain the latest research results from the university of southern north dakota at hoople, the center of pdq bach studies.

[Sigma_Orionis]

From the you tube video you've shown I can imagine what the man's typical entrance would be like.....

I definitely will have to listen more from Peter Schickele.

Les Luthiers are not well known outside Spanish speaking countries because much of their humor is lost during translation. They make elaborate puns (which is no mean feat in Spanish), most of them untranslatable and a lot of their songs have lyrics because they not only play baroque or classical pieces (of their own design), but have branched out to other musical styles as well.