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Hello Tangueros & Tangueras,
Don't cry! This is not the end of festivities. October 25 bring you
Tango Night at The Dante!
Thanks to
T
hat
I
talian
G
uy
John Dal Santo
who you dance with in the classes, practicas and Milongas,
Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts
got inspired to honor Argentine Tango Composers of Italian descend by organizing this
unforgettable night with two Orchestras, performance, lesson and Milonga!
10.25.2019 @ 6:30pm
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Latin Grammy Award winner bassist and composer Pedro Giraudo is among the most compelling tango artists today. After two decades performing with the most important interpreters of tango, Pedro Giraudo debuted his own Tango Orchestra at Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing in July 2015 and since then has become an active cultural ambassador of this beautiful and passionate music of his native Argentina.
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Anita & Hernan Brizuela
from Ultimate Tango
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Ultimate Tango creator and owners, Anita Flejter and Hernan Brizuela created a unique, well-structured, progressive Argentine Tango program that proves itself extremely successful and popular. Introducing first connection, communication/partnership building, ability to lead/follow, musicality and structure of the dance, together with the steps from first encounter with tango, allow dancers progress reasonably within short amount of time, with great understanding of technique and strong basics for both improvisation and performance.
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The Boston Tango Orchestra (BTO) focuses on the Golden Age Argentine tango music played at milongas (Argentine tango social dancing). Each song is carefully selected and arranged with tango dancers in mind.
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6:30 PM
Beginners Tango Lessons
by Anita & Hernan Brizuela from Ultimate Tango
8:00 PM
Pedro Giraudo Quartet in Concert with Dance Performance by Anita & Hernan Brizuela from Ultimate Tango
9:30 PM
Milonga with Boston Tango Orchestra
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That names of
D'Arienzo, Di Sarli, Troilo, Pugliese, Biagi, Canaro, Calo, Donato, D'Agostino, Tanturi sound Italian for a reason. They are coming from their Italian
descendants.
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Juan d'Arienzo
(December 14, 1900 – January 14, 1976) was an
Argentine
tango
musician, also known as
"El Rey del Compás"
(
King of the Beat
). He was a violinist, band leader, and composer.
He was son of Italian immigrants
and used more modern arrangements and instrumentation; his popular group produced hundreds of recordings.
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Carlos di Sarli
(January 7, 1903 – January 12, 1960) was an
Argentine tango
musician, orchestra leader,
composer
and
pianist
. Born at 511 Buenos Aires street (now Yrigoyen) in the city of
Bahía Blanca
, located in Southern
Argentina
.
He was the eighth child of the Italian immigrant Miguel Di Sarli,
the owner of a gunsmith store, and Serafina Russomano, daughter of the tenor singer Tito Russomano.
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Aníbal Troilo
was born on July 11, 1914, to Felisa Bagnoli and Aníbal Troilo, in the well-known
barrio
of
Abasto
[1]
.
His father nicknamed him "Pichuco", an alteration of the Neapolitan (Italian) "picciuso", meaning "weepy", or "crybaby"
.
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Osvaldo Pedro Pugliese
(
Buenos Aires
, December 2, 1905 – July 25, 1995) was an
Argentine
tango
musician. He developed dramatic arrangements that retained strong elements of the walking beat of salon tango but also heralded the development of concert-style tango music. '
Pugliese' is an Italian Habitational surname, meaning "from Puglia".
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Francisco Canaro
(November 26, 1888 – December 14, 1964) was an
Uruguayan
violinist and
tango
orchestra leader.
His parents, Italians, emigrated to Uruguay,
and later – when Francisco Canaro was less than 10 years old, they emigrated to
Buenos Aires
(
Argentina
) in the late nineteenth century. Canaro was born in
San José de Mayo
,
Uruguay
, in 1888.
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Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla
(
Spanish pronunciation:
[pjaˈsola]
,
Italian pronunciation:
[pjatˈtsɔlla]
was born in
Mar del Plata
, Argentina, in 1921,
the only child of Italian immigrant parents
, Vicente "Nonino" Piazzolla and Assunta Manetti.
[2]
His paternal grandfather, a sailor and fisherman named Pantaleo (later Pantaleón) Piazzolla, had immigrated to Mar del Plata from
Trani
, a seaport in the southeastern Italian region of
Apulia
, at the end of the 19th century.
[3]
His mother was the daughter of two Italian immigrants from
Lucca
in Tuscany.
[4]
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Ricardo Tanturi
(27 January 1905 – 24 January 1973) (nickname: El caballero del tango) was a piano player, composer and bandleader (
tango
musical genre
) in
Argentina
during the
Golden Age
of
tango
.
[1]
born of Italian parents
in Buenos Aires, at Barracas neighborhood, one of the poorest and most vital areas in the city surrounded by the now foul-smelling Riachuelo (small river) where boats and barges used to sail.
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Edgardo Donato
like many other outstanding artists,
was the son
of an Italian couple
. Ernesto Donato, his father, was born in 1871 and played the mandolin. Later he switched to violoncello and until the end of his life music was his passion. He finally conducted a chamber orchestra in Montevideo.
His mother was, Egilda Cafagna, she had nine children, of which three were musicians. Ascanio, cellist and composer; Osvaldo, pianist and composer and Edgardo Felipe Valerio, violinist.
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Questions? Doubts? Tango depression?
Contact us.
We are here to help. We believe Tango is a magical dance. It will change your life. For better.
Saludos,
Anita & Hernan & Aurelia
1.781.395.9000
646-316-0265 - Hernan
347-228-7856 - Anita
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