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Héctor Mauré. Argentine music at Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires.

“Tango Brujo” by Juan D’Arienzo y su Orquesta Típica with Héctor Mauré, 1943 (English translation of the lyrics).

“Tango que sos un encanto
De quien escucha tus sones,
Tango que atraes corazones,
Con tus dulces cantos
Y tus bandoneones.
Sos de cuna humilde,
Y has paseado el universo,
Sin más protocolo,
Que tu música y tus versos,
Para abrirte paso
Has tenido que ser brujo,
Por tus propios medios
Lograste tu triunfo.
Tango que sos un encanto,
Hoy vive tu canto,
En mi corazón.

¡Tango!, ¡Tango!
Tango bravo, tango lindo,
Tango noble, tango guapo
Tango hermano
De mis largas noches tristes,
Compañero de mi pobre corazón.
Tango bravo, fascinante,
¡Tango brujo!,
Tango bravo, combatido,
Tango bravo,
Tango gaucho
Que a pesar de tanta contra
Defendiste con altura,
Tu bravura de varón.”

“Tango, you are an enchanter
Of those who listen to your sounds,
Tango, you attract hearts,
with your sweet songs
and your bandoneons.

You have humble origins
And traveled the universe
without more attributes
other than your music and your verses.
To open your path
you had to be a sorcerer
with your resources
you achieved success.
Tango, you are an enchantment,
today your song lives
in my heart.

Sorcerer Tango!
Brave Tango, Beautiful Tango!,
Noble Tango, courageous Tango!
Brother Tango
Of my long sad nights,
mate of my barren heart.

Fascinating courageous Tango!
Sorcerer Tango!
Brave Tango, Opposed,
Brave Tango!
Gaucho Tango,
despite the odds against you,
you loftily defend your manly bravery.”

Music and lyrics: Francisco Canaro.

“El 13” by Adolfo Carabelli y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Gómez, 1932.

Adolfo Carabelli

Pianist, composer, and leader.
(September 8, 1893 – January 25, 1947)

The real amplitude of Carabelli’s capacity is evidenced in 1926 when Victor hired him as artistic director of the label and, at the same time, commissioned him to form an orchestra that would play either jazz or tango music. Thanks to Carabelli, since then, the Victor staff has reached a higher hierarchy since the Victor staff has achieved the inclusion of notable musicians and chosen an attractive repertoire. Similarly, the development of orthophonic recordings reached an unexpected sound quality just a few months before.

Among the best well-known tangos of his tango orchestra (orquesta típica) are the most authentic creations he made of “Mi refugio” (1931); “Cantando” (1931, with the added vocals by Simone and Alberto Gómez as a duo), “Felicia” (1932), “Por dónde andará” (1932), “Inspiración” (1932), “Mar adentro” (1933), etc. Also, some renditions with the refrain of tangos that usually are played only instrumentally, like “Rodríguez Peña” (1932) and “El Trece” (1932), are well remembered. Read more at www.todotango.com…

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Jorge Vidal. Argentine Tango music at Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires. Marcelo Solis collection

“Puente Alsina” by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica with Jorge Vidal, 1949

Listen to “Puente Alsina” by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta Típica with Jorge Vidal, 1949:

Jorge Vidal

Singer and composer
(12 August 1924 – 14 September 2010)

n the daily language that men use it is possible to find hints that mark some of their facets. That day of 1992 when I met with El Negro Jorge Vidal in his office, the first thing that he told me was: «Wait a minute that I have to go to the viorsi (toilet). And with this single word that is already out of fashion, even in old lunfardo, the guy was sketching his own portrait. When he returned he touched my shoulder: “Yes, brother, tell me…” And he sat down to please all my questions.

«From an early age I had a clear position towards life, concerning social and political matters. And I was very lucky, God was always on my side. There were many bitter times, characteristic of the humans, but I was putting them in a corner». And he finished his introduction with this hard sentence, without concessions, easy to express, but not so easy to take into practice: «Man should always have the interest to continue ahead and to keep on fighting. When he loses his capacity of astonishment, when there is nothing that may draw his attention, when he no longer has an interest that allows him to keep on living with enthusiasm and he doesn’t have strength to improve, well, he’d better kill himself.

«I was born in the neighborhood of Caballito… Continue reading at www.todotango.com….

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Why Tango?

This article continues a previous article.

I do not want to idealize the “natural man”, but our civilization took away the graceful walk of an elegant hunter-gatherer, leaving us instead the limping of a wounded beast.

Is it too late for this realization?

At the individual level, aging poses a burden on us, making it more difficult, as time passes, to reconnect to our body, and with it, to the sensible aspects of our reality: shapes, colors, textures, smells, sensations, emotions, our sweat and that of others.

Our civilization, our education, train us, preferably, to be able to infer and deduce rather than perceive.

Still, perceiving is indispensable to our survival. But to the organization of our “modernized” societies it matters less that we develop good taste than that we are capable of accurate accounting.

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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.