In the waning years of the tango’s “golden age,” which spanned the 1930s to the mid-1950s, the Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) began writing irresistible music that melded elements of ...
Like American jazz, Argentine tango music was born of multicultural interaction. Africans, Europeans and South Americans, thrown together during Argentina’s economic expansion at the turn of the 20th ...
In starting her Live at the Carnegie Series, Liz Draper set out to bring in music that wouldn’t otherwise be available in the ...
The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Laura Camacho dreamed of playing tango music since she learned upright bass in ...
Ástor Piazzolla, the visionary Argentinian composer, band leader and bandoneon virtuoso who created the revolutionary nuevo tango style in the 1950s, is being celebrated around the world today, March ...
For musicians and aficionados of Argentine tango, the scale and scope of the Astor Piazzolla collection at UC Santa Barbara is staggering. Thousands of pages of the composer’s original sheet music.
The tango is just as riveting and relevant as the classic bolero, Argentine pianist Raúl DiBlasio says. "Tango allows you to make instrumental arrangements with a lot of versatility, because it never ...
It takes two to tango, but a whole lot more to make a festival. For the next two weeks, people will have a chance to dance or simply watch, as area dance instructors celebrate the music and moves of ...
WESTFIELD — Hundreds of music lovers have enjoyed the popular First Friday Music Series concerts, presented by Teatro Si at the intimate Galeria West Art Gallery, located at 111 Quimby St. in downtown ...
Whitney Leavitt and Mark Ballas closed Dancing with the Stars’ 20th-anniversary show with a flawless Argentine tango to “Cell Block Tango,” earning unanimous 10s and standing ovations in one of the se ...
Pablo Ziegler performs tonight (April 29) at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. Tonight (April 29) the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts goes “beyond tango” to the tango without the ...
For the first time, the Baku Tango Marathon, a major event bringing together lovers of Argentine tango from around the world, ...