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PUPI CASTELLO Y GRACIELA GOZALEZ. Maestros milongueros. Escuela de Tango de buenos Aires.

Puppy Castello dancing with Graciela Gonzalez (1999)

Confessions by Puppy Castello

By Irene Amuchástegui

He is one of those men who, when they step on the track dancing sharply, go on being so witty and funny just like five minutes before, when they were sprinkling the dancers with hilarious epithets from a nearby table. He possesses a devil’s laughter and a strong voice that he likes to thunder above the music for the joy of his friends and which means a shock for foreigners and unwary people. This, not precisely at all, discreet personality exacerbates a kind of gift for ubiquity which he has. Continue reading.

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Milongueando in Buenos Aires

…there is world in which being friendly does not mean being agreeable nor disrespectful of differences, but rather encouraging the individual pursuit of excellence, a road and a goal that is accessible only to you, since we are all different by nature. In this world we learn by imitating, knowing that it will be impossible to be like those we imitate, since they already prevented us that it is not only impossible, but unethical. In this world we need to develop our own interpretation of beauty and demonstrate that it fits the community by concretely putting it into practice, in concrete actions. In this world your private life does not matter at all, as long as it does not interfere with the evolving public realm. In this world we are made aware, from the beginning, of the responsibility to be a role model for others. This world is absolutely transparent: we all know what we really need to know about each other, maintaining absolute respect for privacy (since it is not incumbent upon us), being that this transparency and the individual acceptance and respect of the codes of conduct established by the consent of the community, the checks and balances that maintain the cohesion of this world. This world does not measure success by quantifying your material wealth, but by the quality of your existence from the point of view of a creed that affirms the correspondence between ethics and aesthetics, not in words, but in concrete material actions that are visible, sensible, that occupy space and time.

"Un lamento", Argentine Tango music sheet cover.

“Un lamento” by Carlos Di Sarli y su Orquesta Típica, 1942.

Graciano De Leone

Bandoneonist, leader, and composer
(July 16, 1890 – June 21, 1945)

Even though he was a “fueye” man, the first bucks he got were playing guitar at the Café de las Mercedes in La Boca when he teamed up with the bandoneon player Antonio Cacace, widely popular by that time.

This took place until he came to know Eduardo Arolas in 1909 one evening that he crossed the city to El Abasto area.

They played in numerous backyard balls, adding a violinist that played by ear and was known as “El Quijudo”. Now as bandoneon instrumentalist, Arolas himself had passed on to him the music of the first number, a waltz, “Las sirenas”, and one by Alfredo Bevilacqua, “Recuerdos de la pampa”.

His beginning with the new instrument was in 1910. Continue reading at www.todotango.com...

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“Corazón de papel” by Miguel Caló y su Orquesta Típica and Roberto Arrieta in vocals (1948)

Alberto Franco

Lyricist (14 July 1903 – 14 August 1981)

By Orlando del Greco

He wrote the lyrics of the tango “Corazón de papel”, with music by Cátulo Castillo, recorded by Carlos Gardel. On this matter he stated:

“The tango ‘Corazón de papel’ was something simply accidental. I was in the house of Don Jose Gonzalez Castillo, the great man and illustrious playwright, with whose children, Cátulo and Gema, I joined a cordial friendship. It was about 1929, one Saturday, Gardel appeared and snapped us: “Why do not you write a tango and give it to me?”

“Cátulo and I looked at each other and agreed to do it right away. I sat down and wrote the lyrics (I am not unaware that it is very poor, but the music of Cátulo saves it). The next day we gave it to Gardel who immediately recorded it.” Continue reading.

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Anibal Troilo, Argentine Tango musician, leader, and composer.

“Toda mi vida” by Aníbal Troilo y su Orquesta Típica with Francisco Fiorentino in vocals, 1941.

Aníbal Troilo

Bandoneon player, leader and composer.
(11 July 1914 – 18 May 1975)

He was one of those few artists who made us wonder what mystery, what magic produced such a rapport with people.

As a bandoneon player, he was neither a stylist like Pedro Maffia, nor a virtuoso like Carlos Marcucci, nor a multiple creator like Pedro Laurenz, nor a phrasing player like Ciriaco Ortiz.

But he had something of them all and he was, precisely, a master of personality and feeling in his expression. As an orchestra leader, he dug a unique tango style, balanced, without histrionisms, and of undeniable taste.

He knew how to choose the best players according to his musical ideas, he selected good singers, who besides him achieved their best, to such an extent that when they left the orchestra, only partially and for a short time could they reach a similar level.

He also knew how to choose a repertory without having to accept the conditions suggested by the recording companies.

Finally, he was an inspired composer, creator of pieces made to last forever, as also his renditions of somebody else’s works which became masterpieces of all times. Continue reading at www.todotango.com….