Ernesto Acher

Ernesto Acher

Birth : 1937-10-09, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

History

Architect. Musician. Actor. Composer and orchestral conductor. He joined Les Luthiers between 1971 and 1986. Buenos Aires, 10/9/1939 His first intervention with Les Luthiers was in April 1971, when Opus Pi premiered at the Astengo Theater in the city of Rosario. His entry occurred to replace Marcos Mundstock, who had taken a momentary leave. "At that time I participated as a guest in a single number, the 'Pieza en forma de tango' Piece," remembers Acher. "I was introduced as Arístides Garófalo. I came out dressed in a striped suit, with a scarf around my neck and the typical tango hat." His father was a Turkish immigrant and his mother was born in Argentina, from a turkish heritage. Architect, although he always manifested a strong musical vocation. At the age of three he was already sitting in front of his mother's piano and hitting the keys. And at eight he began to study with a teacher. In his school years, fascinated by the jazz songs that were broadcast on the radio, he began to admire musicians such as Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey. He learned to play the clarinet and formed a traditional jazz group. In his last years of university he studied with the Austrian teacher Erwin Leuchter, who opened the doors to a deeper musical knowledge. Shortly after entering Les Luthiers, he composed the Manuela's blues. Several other jazz works and pieces from other genres would follow. Interpretively, he was noted for his ability with wind instruments, although he also demonstrated his skills as a pianist in some works, such as the live versions of Piece in the form of tango, La Chanson de Les Luthiers and Oi Gadóñaya and others. Over time, he acquired a strong stage role, which reached its peak in works such as the Cantata by the advanced Don Rodrigo Díaz de Carreras ... and La gallina said Eureka. He left Les Luthiers in 1986 and began new musical directions. He edited a musical entertainment disc called Juegos, and then, together with Jorge Navarro and other musicians, he created the musical group La banda elástica, which in the following years would premiere four shows and record three discs. With Jorge Navarro and Baby López Furst, he also recorded Gershwin, the man we love. Later, with Navarro, he would successfully present the show of the same name at the Colón Theater, the Coliseum Theater, the Opera Theater and the Argentinian Theater in La Plata. He also ventured into stage humor, starting with the one-man show Humor con Acher, released in 1993. Thereafter he carried out numerous activities as a composer, arranger, orchestral director and performer. In 2002 he decided to settle in Chile where, in addition to his artistic activity, he was a professor at the Diego Portales University of Santiago for seven years. After having lived in Concepción, Santiago and Linares, in 2016 he returned to Buenos Aires, where he currently resides. In 2017 he resumed his humorous activity with his show Humor a la carte and in March he returned to his program Los rincones de Acher on Radio Nacional Clásica. That year, he presented the true Cinderella, a musical tale for the whole family, in collaboration with Jorge de la Vega at the Piazzolla Auditorium of the Borges Cultural Center.

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Ernesto Acher
Ernesto Acher

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Les Luthiers: Luthierías
Les Luthiers: Aquí Les Luthiers
Les Luthiers (archive footage)
Here Les Luthiers is a recital of the Argentine group of informal musical instruments Les Luthiers, made especially for the 45th edition of the Cosquín Folk Festival. It was presented for the only time on January 28, 2005, at the Plaza Prosper Molina in the city of Cosquín, Córdoba, Argentina, traditional venue of the festival.1
Les Luthiers: Viegésimo aniversario
Les Luthiers is an Argentine comedy-musical group, very popular also in several other Spanish-speaking countries such as Paraguay, Guatemala, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela. They were formed in 1967 by Gerardo Masana, during the height of a period of very intense Choral Music activity in Argentina's state universities. Their outstanding characteristic is the home-made musical instruments (hence the name luthiers, French for "musical instrument maker"), some of them extremely sophisticated, which they skillfully employ in their recitals to produce music and texts full of high class and refined humor. From 1977 until his death in 2007, they worked together with Roberto Fontanarrosa, a renowned Argentine cartoonist and writer.
Les Luthiers: Humor dulce hogar
Formed in 1967 by Gerardo Masana, during the height of a period of very intense Choral Music activity in Argentina's state universities, Les Luthiers premiered this show on May the 30th, 1985 at the El Círculo Theater in Rosario, Argentina. PROGRAM: 1. Vea esta Noche; 2. Serenata Tímida; 3 . El Zar y un Puñado de Aristócratas Rusos...; 4. Una Canción Regia; 5. Truthful Lulu Pulls thru Zulus; 6. El Valor de la Unidad; 7. Les Nuits de París; 8. Pasión Bucólica; 9. Las Majas del Bergantín; 10. Bolero de los Celos; 11. Marcha de la Conquista and; 12. Cuarteto Opus 44. The 'Mandocleta' instrument was presented for the first time during this show. Recorded live at the Colón Theater in Bogotá, Colombia, on April 12, 1986. Numbers 11 and 12 were recorded earlier at that same theater on November 8, 1981. This is the last recorded appearance by Ernesto Acher with Les Luthiers.
Les Luthiers: Hacen muchas gracias de nada
'Muchas Gracias de Nada', is a show premiered on June 15, 1979 at the Coliseo Theater in the City of Buenos Aires by the Argentinean ensemble of informal instruments, Les Luthiers. Recorded live between October 24th and 25th, 1980 at the same theater. PROGRAM: 1. La Campana Suonerá; 2. El Rey Enamorado; 3. Sinfonía Interrumpida; 4. La Tanda; 5. Canción para Moverse; 6. La Gallina Dijo Eureka; 7. Trío Op. 115; 8. Cartas de Color; 9. Tango Op. 11. In this show 'Antenor' made its first appearance, an advanced robot (for the time it was built - 1979) that weighed 80 kilos and was equipped with several motors that allowed it to move around the stage, turn its head, etc. The robot caught fire during the last performance of this play (Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico - 1980) in the middle of the stage and before the astonished gaze of all those who were there.
Les Luthiers: Mastropiero que nunca
'Mastropiero que nunca' was a theatrical humour/music show by Les Luthiers, first performed on Friday 9 September 1977 and last done on Sunday 27 February 1983 (although it was headlining only during 1977 and 1978). It consisted of nine new (never performed previously) live numbers, which ranged from a madrigal to a salsa skit. PROGRAM: 1. Jingle Bass-Pipe (Obertura); 2. La Bella y Graciosa Moza Marchose a Lavar la Ropa; 3. El Asesino Misterioso; 4. Visita a la Universidad de Wildstone; 5. Kathy, la Rrina del Saloon; 6. El Beso de Ariadna; 7. Lazy Daisy; 8. Sonatas para Latín y Piano; 9. Payada de la vaca; 10. Cantata del Adelantado Don Rodrigo Díaz de Carreras, de sus Hazañas en Tierras de Indias, de los Singulares Acontecimientos en que se vió Envuelto, y de cómo se Desenvolvió; 11. El explicado. Two new instruments were introduced during this show: the 'Calephone da Casa' and the 'Shoephone'.
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