Tag: philosophy

“Tres esquinas” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1941.

Ángel D’Agostino

Pianist, composer and leader
(25 May 1900 – 16 January 1991)

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I have been a precocious porteño. I was born on Moreno Street between Virrey Cevallos and Solís on May 25, 1900. In my family we were all musicians whether due to study or liking. As at home there was a piano before I was six I decided I had to study. In a short time I had command of the keyboard and soon thereafter I was regarded as a child prodigy and since then I have been playing before audiences. Continue reading at todotango.com…

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“Tango Stories – Musical Secrets”, written by Michael Lavocah, 2014.

An essential reading for anyone who would like to understand Tango better.

Michael Lavocah is an authority on Tango dance music. He works internationally as a Tango teacher and DJ, with a special reputation for teaching musicality. He has a reputation for making complex ideas easy to understand, transmitting a depth of knowledge with humor, simplicity and clarity. Michael is the proprietor of the website www.milonga.co.uk, a reference point for tango dance music in the English speaking world.

Milongueando with Mimi. Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires. Classes. Dance.

Milongueando in Lafayette. Fresedo/Ray tanda.

When I receive a new student in my class I know that he or she wants to dance.

But teaching them to dance involves not only showing the moves, but also giving the student a sense of placement, making him or her aware that you cannot just do any move at any time.
I must give the new students a sense of Tango as a whole, make them understand that they are learning a culture.
Tango is what happens in the milonga. And when I say milonga, my image is that of the very best of the most authentic milongas in Buenos Aires.
This is what guides my instruction, and that is why, along with others who are after the same goal, we created the Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires.

Lafayette classes and milonga are the most similar to a Buenos Aires neighborhood class and milonga. The friendly and committed to learn crowd of regulars makes the experience of this class and milonga to feel very welcoming and rewarding.

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“Orlando Goñi” by Alfredo Gobbi y su Orquesta Típica, 1949.

Alfredo Gobbi

Violinist, leader and composer
(14 May 1912 – 21 May 1965)

The multiple facets of Alfredo Gobbi’s personality —composer, violinist, arranger and orchestra leader— granted him a well-deserved and indisputable recognition among the most qualified and important music interpreters of tango.

Because Alfredo Gobbi —The Romantic Violin of Tango— not only bore the responsibility of an inherited prestigious artistic name.

He brought the very personal creation of a tango style.

So he established a different way of feeling and expressing tango. He brought in his original esthetic conceptions, of evident innovative character, reminiscences of an old time, framed in the exact balance of the evolutionist values, that allowed him to crystallize one of the most colorful, deep, dense and authentic expressions of the instrumental tango. It has been accurately said that «in the modern musical clothing of Alfredo Gobbi, the last example of tango with long hair was dying down». That was his tango. The unmistakable tango of Alfredo Gobbi, of academic musical structure and outskirts-born deep sensitivity. Continue reading at www.todotango.com.

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Milongueando with Susan at Lafayette milonga. Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires.

Milongueando in Lafayette

The milonga is where Tango lives, where Tango is kept alive.

When you are at the milonga, whether a well known milonguero/a or a new good student, you are making possible that Tango lives. You bring Tango to life, in your body, in everything you do with your body, not by dancing only, but by everything you do.