Loas al cuarto de baño

Marcos Mundstock:

Among the various spaces in which men's lives take place, one of the most frequented is the bathroom. However, its role in history has been unjustly postponed. Very important things have happened in the bathrooms; How many decisions have been made, how many books have been read! Or, in everyday life, how many married couples reconcile in the bathroom, for example while the wife brushes her teeth and the husband trims his mustache... or vice versa... It is true that the humble mirror in a medicine cabinet does not have the metaphysical depth of Borges's mirrors; It is true that in our domestic bathtubs no one will discover Archimedes' principle; It is true that our bathrooms do not have the prestige of fountains like Versailles, or Fontanebleau, or Plaza Lavalle... And yet, with the push of a button, what a display of springs! And when one leaves with the satisfaction of having fulfilled his duty, he does not need to throw a coin, as in the Trevi Fountain, to ensure his return; You know you have to come back the next day, or in some cases two days... or three or more... Well, I don't know, at some point it would be a good idea to try the coin... How many rulers have meditated on their actions in a bathroom? as if it were their office to the point of not being able to distinguish where they have resolved the most issues and where they make the most… incorrect decisions! The great composer Johann Sebastian Mastropiero was thinking about all this when he composed "Loas al Cuarto de Baño", his famous concert quartet for sanitary devices, which we will hear below, composed for the following instruments: Calephone, Lirodoro, Desafinaducha and Nomeolbídet. In "Praise to the Bathroom" Mastropiero has managed, more than ever, to make the essence of the material he describes emanate from his music. In it you can breathe the unmistakable atmosphere of all his production.
(Marcos leaves the scene to the applause of the audience and the rest of the members enter, each with their informal instrument: Puccio carries the Lirodoro, Maronna the Nomeolbídet, Daniel the Calephone and Núñez Cortés carries the Desafinaducha)

All: Musicians, philosophers and artists
Carlos Núñez Cortés: And eminent writers
Everyone: They all go to the bathroom
Carlos Núñez Cortés: And some very frequently

All:
How many times do people
In the bathroom they have meditated.
Jorge Maronna:
How many books have been read?
How many doubts removed.

All:
Showers, toilets and bathtubs,
faucets, sinks and bidets.
Praise to the bathroom.

All: There are no celebrations or banquets
Carlos Núñez Cortés: In the intimate sanctuary
All:
You don't eat or drink,
If not the opposite.
Praise, praise, praise to the bathroom.