Sorrow and loss, the consolation of drink and companionship, the phantasmagoria of carnival, intertwine as the narrator remonstrates with a clown whose laughter conceals his pain. Renée and John made their own return to the past to recite this one, bringing Milonga Falucho back to Café Argentino in Brooklyn to alternate once monthly with Falucho/Chelsea in Manhattan. Live music was by Maurizio Najt (piano) and Javier Sanchez (bandoneón).
Ríe payaso (1929) Letra: Emilio Falero Música de Virgilio Carmona
Laugh, Clown! (1929) Lyrics by Emilio Falero, trans. J. Osburn Music by Virgilio Carmona
El payaso con sus muecas y su risa exagerada, nos invita, camaradas, a gozar del carnaval; no notáis en esa risa una pena disfrazada, que su cara almidonada, nos oculta una verdad.
The laughter of the clown and his exaggerated frown, invites us, comrades, if we’re down, to have fun at carnival; we don’t see in that laughter the disguised pain of a masker, that his starchy painted-on grimace conceals the truth beh…
Ríe payaso (1929) Letra: Emilio Falero Música de Virgilio Carmona
Laugh, Clown! (1929) Lyrics by Emilio Falero, trans. J. Osburn Music by Virgilio Carmona
El payaso con sus muecas y su risa exagerada, nos invita, camaradas, a gozar del carnaval; no notáis en esa risa una pena disfrazada, que su cara almidonada, nos oculta una verdad.
The laughter of the clown and his exaggerated frown, invites us, comrades, if we’re down, to have fun at carnival; we don’t see in that laughter the disguised pain of a masker, that his starchy painted-on grimace conceals the truth beh…