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Tango Capital visited the ABC studios in Melbourne on 27 July, and took the opportunity to keep an eye out on tango across Australasia from high in the sky in Lois Price’s helicopter seat.
Image: with apologies to the Mad As Hell team and thanks to the ABC studios.
Tango Capital returns to play the fourth Sunday of the month broadcasting a milonguita playlist for dancers . That’s this Sunday on Tango Capital, 7:00pm to 8:00pm:
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Tanda 1: Tangos from Roberto Firpo (1937): Di Di, Carlos Varela singing No Quiero Verte Llorar, and then Tierra Negra.
Tanda 2: Valses from Juan D’Arienzo: Héctor Mauré singing Flor Del Mal, Miedo, and La Serenata De Ayer (1941).
Tanda 3: Tango from Osvaldo Pugliese (1944): Roberto Chanel singing Corrientes Y Esmerelda, La Abandone Y No Sabia, and Silbar De Boyero.
Tanda 4:Milongas from Otros Aires: Amore Que Se Baila and Milonga Sentimental.
Tanda 5: Tangos from Lucio Demare (1944): Horacio Quintana singing Solamente…Ella, Torrente, and Se Va Una Tarde Más.
Tanda 6: Milongas from Carlos Di Sarli (1941): Roberto Rufino singing La Mulateada, Pena Mulata, and Zorzal.
Tanda 7: La Cumparsita from Roberto Firpo (1928).
There were many dances in early 20th century Buenos Aires, each underpinned by different music: milonga by the habanera rhythm, with different note lengths; another was the lilting Canyengue, a 2/4 rhythm of equally spaced beats arranged quick-quick-slow , quick-quick-slow. Canyengue is the oldest known manifestation of the dance now known as tango, with origins back in the late 19th century, and it was the dance that took the world by storm towards the end of La Belle Époque. There is no doubt that, just like tango, the dance tradition of canyengue was broken during the second half of the 20th century, but whilst Canyengue might have been overshadowed by 4/4 tango music, it certainly did not die out, it was merely overshadowed, just as rock-n-roll did not cease to exist in 1960 but has in fact survived—if not as a fashionable dance then definitely as a popular one. But since the 1980s Canyengue has been revived as a dance and this edition explores the treatments given to its music by a range of traditional and modern ensembles.
The music usually follows a 3-section ABA structure, with 16, 32, and 16 bars to each section respectively, and you can hear the second repeat of the opening section clearly in some of the following music. The dance is framed around a strong quick-quick-slow stepping pattern, with the quick-quick represented in the music as 2 single notes on a bar of the 2/4 arrangement, and the slow a single long note on the following bar. The dance is improvised from units of up to 4 repeats of a dance figure, followed by a “chorus” of up to 8 bars of crossed steps (enganche), but like more modern tango musics the arrangement will vary the marcato, the placement of the strong beats, and so leaders will vary the numbers and arrangements of figures in the dance to suit the music.
That’s this Sunday on Tango Capital, 7:00pm to 8:00pm:
Image: The quintessential foot placement of Canyengue.
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Last edition took a brief look at the professional career of Héctor Artola, and this edition explores his legacy in more detail, tracing the musical ensembles he recorded with over 30 years, and then a selection of his compositions as presented by a range of orquestas over 45 years. That’s this Sunday on Tango Capital, 7:00pm to 8:00pm:
Image: Héctor Artola was one of the subjects of a series of 3 stamps produced in 1998 by Uruguay to commemorate significant artists.
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There is a report on the Tango De Saxos collaboration between some tango musicians and a bunch of saxophonists, and the professional career of Héctor Artola features, along with a round-up of What’s On.That’s this Sunday on Tango Capital, 7:00pm to 8:00pm:
Image: Tango De Saxos played at the Independent Theatre, North Sydney, on 24 February 2019; Daniel Rojas on piano, Stephen Cutriss on bandoneón, and Nexas Quartet.
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