1199  Homage epilogue

Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 07:58:04 -0700
From: Carlos Lima <amilsolrac@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Homage epilogue

I just run into the latest tango catalogue, the one started by Daniel Trenner
and his collaborators several years back, where the video documentation of
tango masters is listed, among a lot of other stuff. Personal events and
business changes are reported there of which I had not the slightest inkling.
I had not even noticed that the catalogue had been published quite rarely of
late.

I posted recently an item acknowledging what I consider one great
accomplishment of theirs: perhaps ultimately the greatest among surely many
other tango related ones. In it I happened to also mention Solo Tango. As it
turned out, the Solo Tango entrepreneurs, Juan Fabbri et all, now own the
catalogue as well, having acquired it from "Bridge to Tango".

I have no idea of what possessed me to express my recognition exactly when I
did, after carrying the idea in my head for years. The devil messing up with
my sense of timing again, I guess. Just in case, it had NOTHING whatsoever to
do with what I eventually learned from the latest catalogue.

I am a little disappointed that D. Trenner was not able to continue his
documental work after a certain point; and I find some encouragement in the
news that he will continue to have an influence as a consultant. I think his
more detached position, as a non-native, relative to the tango phenomenon was
a key element in the quality and character of his history-making
contribution. I can only hope that he will resume the great work, or even
intensify it, under the new arrangement.

Cheers,