2091  National Day Of Tango

Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:06:03 +0000
From: Sergio Vandekier <sergiovandekier990@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: National Day Of Tango

The celebration took place on December 11, the birthday of Carlos Gardel and
Julio de Caro.

At about 6 pm. I took the subway for a short ride to the station 'Carlos
Gardel'. I got off right were the all City Central Market used to be (a
place where Gardel used to hang out as a boy). This Market, its external
architecture preserved was transformed into a shopping mall. Gardel's
house is situated about two blocks away. It is a regular house probably
built around the 1920's. French Style. The door to one side and two windows
to the right. The entrance hall, leads to the bedroom of dona Berta
(Gardel's mother) and also to the desk.
A large wall of glass and iron (Puerta Cancel) separates this area from the
patio on which the other bedrooms open . This patio was covered by a
retractable glass ceiling. Then the bathroom and the kitchen. There is a
small room situated at an intermediate floor (mezzanine) and then the stairs
take you to the upper floor which used to be the area to dry clothes on a
line but where there are museum offices today.

The architect in charge of the restoration works took us for a tour of the
house and then of the street . Some of the houses around show traces of
another popular art form of the city of Buenos Aires 'El fileteado'. This
art was born at the same time as Tango. It seems that an Italian immigrant
that painted carts started to use colorful ornaments around 1980. At the
beginning there were only lines of different colors but later on arabesques,
filigrees, leaves, etc., reproducing the ornaments of the facades of the
houses of that period. Then flowers, the picture of Carlos Gardel, Virgin
Mary and interesting amusing phrases were added. Samples of this almost
extinguished art form can be found at the flee market in San Telmo on
Sundays.

The huge cake was cut and served with a bottle of beer after 'Happy birthday
Carlitos' was sang.

Then I went to a dance in the street two blocks away . There was a show with
improvised singers and great musicians. It was very thrilling to listen to
the lyrics while the couples old and young alike sang along, the man, his
arm around her shoulders or her waist and some of them cheek to cheek.

Then a movie of Tita Merello projected on the obelisk, fire works and the
street dance with some young couples dancing to 'Rave tango'. most people
dancing free style and the older generation complaining that that music and
dance was not tango.

I returned home by two am. It was a beautiful day!

Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 19:55:36 -0500
From: Daniel Saindon <gardien@TANGO.MONTREAL.QC.CA>
Subject: International Day of Tango

Good evening

There is not a lot of radio programs that are dedicated to Tango music & culture.

Our program is one of them. MONTREAL BUENOS AIRES VICE-VERSA at Radio Centre-Ville

You can listen to it with "Real Player" every Friday morning at 8 hr ( Montreal time ) at this address on the web.

https://www.radiocentreville.com/

This week`s Program will celebrates the International day of Tango

that is scheduled on Carlos Gardel & Julio de Caro`s Birthday this Saturday.

On tomorrow`s morning program we will play Carlos Gardel & Julio De Caro;

along with excerps from the new CD of Denis Plante, CANTOS DE BANDONEON

to be released in Montreal on the International day of Tango

at the STUDIO TANGO of Carol & Bobby, on Saturday night 11 December 2004.

This is the second CD of Denis Plante that features his own compositions.

The first CD that was launched in year 2000 ( NOCHE DE TANGO ) had half

their tracks of new compositions that were leaning toward the Romantic & the Sentimental.

( I have heard one person say after listening to SOLITUDE, this was music to caress/ nurse/ cradle her Soul.

This new CD has been more than 3 years in the making and if some people

can actually beleive that some Composer is willing to spend 3 years experiencing

with different instrumentations before making his mind on the perfect combination

of instruments for his music THIS IS how Denis Plante spent the last years,

besides actually composing, because the 14 tracks of this Album are his own compositions.

On this CD, Denis Plante plays the bandoneon and he is accompanied by a String Quartet.

Although this is the first Tango recording of this Quartet as a formation,

they show they have assimilited Horacio Salgan`s book on Tango Music.

They were very well directed. I have rarely listened to a String Quartet that understood Tango so well.

On this CD, the mood has changed or has evolved, as I should say.

What I said about the first CD as leaning toward the Romantic and Sentimental is now

conveyed as leaning towatd the "Impressionist movement". ( This expression comes from Denis Plante himself. )

Chief among the Tango impressionists is Daniel Binelli whose CD

( Tangos de Buenos Aires ) describes what this movement is about.

See: https://www.tango.montreal.qc.ca/cbcbia.htm

Denis Plante will speak in French on our radio program

and you will be able to listen to his Music in the language that you know.

MONTREAL BUENOS AIRES VICE-VERSA could be hard in

Real Audio every Friday Morning at 8 AM ( Time of Montreal )

Radio Centre-Ville is https://www.radiocentreville.com/

Our Program`s Descrition could be seen at https://www.tango.montreal.qc.ca/radiotango.htm



Daniel Saindon for

MONTREAL BUENOS AIRES VICE-VERSA