601  Elsa (2)
I briefly mentioned it in another post, but I wanted to make sure those of you who assisted me in finding the music I was looking for received my thanks. A lot of people sent me all sorts of links about...

602  Being a DJ (1)
Greetings, For those few of you keeping track, I should be leaving the hospital here in New York in about three weeks. It has been a long three months away from the dance floor. Many thanks to all...

603  Repackaging tangos (6)
Good afternoon Rick Anderson wrote: I think that we are there. ( almost ) The technology is there, the editing softwares are there and numerous, plus what is most important this equipment, hardware and...

604  About the crashes on the danse floor (4)
Hello Everybody! I want to share with the list two facts I noticed about space and crashes on the dance floor. First, IMHO, the "crash dancers" are not defined by the style or the speed they dance, but...

605  Music for dancing (inside the box) (2)
Sorry, I just sent a blank message, I think only to Manuel. What I meant to send is a comment on good and bad music from the Golden Age (which in my mind stretches from the late '20s, with Julio de...

606  Music in the milongas of Mtl (1)
Good evening Manuel wrote: some box" Your comment does not mention if the "out of the box" music was a tango or not, and if this music was a tango, if it sounded like Argentine tango or not. I realize you...

607  MILONGA PROGRAM (1)
Barbara Garvey wrote: For our milonga on the last Friday of the month in Marin County Al creates the program in advance on minidiscs, with cortinas, prints it out, and distributes it at the door. During...

608  Music, DJ's and so forth. (1)
With all this discussion on good and not so good music I am reminded of an old quote. "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture".... Music is an emotional experience and emotions vary within...

609  Progress Report on Nestor Ray; Thanks to All (1)
Dear List: We're happy to report that maestro Nestor Ray had surgery on June 5 and is doing very well. The tumor in his esophagus was malignant, but it was very contained and had not yet spread to the...

610  Stereo versus mono; etc. (4)
Dave and Friends, In your home, your car, your dance hall... anywhere there is a source of sound and also a surface that can reflect that sound, you have the potential for interference. The reflected

611  Dancing to something other than music of the goldenage (2)
Greetings Jai and Friends, Jai Jeffryes wrote: It is really fun to watch the best dancers of milonga in Bs.As. Their dance is relatively 'small' in the face of energetic rhythmic drive from the music,...

612  "Gricel": A tango with "swing?" (1)
Jai: Frank: I asked a drummer co-worker ( with no tango background ) to discern whether Canaro's recording of "Gricel" has a swing feel in its opening bars; he said that it definitely did, as the horns...

613  a dancer versus a milonguero/a (1)
Dear friends from Tango list I read all the postings about sincopation, and the exquisite refinements that most of the subscribers talk about . I would like to share this excerpt from a book that I am...

614  a tango show in Buenos Aires (1)
Esquina Carlos Gardel has been open for a little more than one year for dinner with a tango show. Last night I had the opportunity to see the show through the invitation of Carlos y Alicia. On weekends,...

615  searching for tango in S.C. (2)
In August I will be traveling to Charleston S. Carolina My son is starting school at the Citadel Is there any tango close to the Citadel

616  music lesson and ear training exercise for dancers (2)
I have always felt a PULSING of four beats in tango music. It was only recently when I saw sheet music for several tangos, that I realized it really IS written in 2/4 time. DOS POR CUATRO. The majority...

617  Joke (4)

618  Tango Music and Time Signatures and Does Tango Music Swing? (1)
Janis Kenyon wrote: I have tango sheet music (published in Buenos Aires) that is written in a variety of time signatures: 2x4, 4x4 and 4x8. The time signature on sheet music is not always relevant in...

619  Guillermo & Marcela in Rusia (1)
Dear Friends: Guillermo Boyd & Marcela Vallejos has been intited for the philarmonia of San Petersburgo togeder ,Santiago & Belen in Rusia .Theater Great Hall San Petersburgo. www.marcelayguillermo.8m.com

620  Teachers and tango publicity (5)
Steve, Tom, Tim, et. al., To revisit an old thread: I like Tom's idea of a tango conference for instructors--online discussion is nice but not a complete substitute for friendly, face-to-face networking...

621  INSURANCE (1)
I just saw a note from Robinne Gray about liability insurance and wanted to share the least expensive source I know of. For members of the Country Dance and Song Society, CallerLab, the square dance...

622  Tango doesn't need more men (15)
Nope, what tango needs is more boys. An earlier post (the author of which I forgot, sorry) mentioned that tango dies if young people don't get interested in it. I think the rarity of young people in...

623  Tango and Marketing (1)
Marketing is an oft-misunderstood concept and rather complex. It is not simply selling or promoting a product but also discovering what needs current or potential consumers may have and then fulfilling

624  Marketing and the age demographic (3)
Thanks everybody. Good discussion, very interesting and helpful. I liked Trini's summary of marketing, which helps me to remember that not all marketing/advertising is about manipulation and unmitigated

625  Man's Greatest Fear - The Dance Floor (5)
Hola Tangueros & Tanguears, Man has climbed the highest mountains Explored the deepest oceans We've even sent man to the moon But my god don't ask us to get on DANCE FLOOR This new subject line is...