What a treat of a party! What a turnout! Thank you so much, Utah tangueros!
The practica started out as an impromptu follower technique / walk basics class (Julianne, you are amazing!)
So for the first half an hour, I kept adding sets of the more accessible, classic instrumental "tangos for walking".
01. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental "Derecho viejo" 1941 2:31
02. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental "Poliya" 1939 2:31
03. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental "Tigre viejo" 1934 3:01
04. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "El ingeniero" 1952 3:25
05. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Milonguero viejo" 1940 2:21
06. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "El once (a divertirse)" 1946 2:41
07. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Bahía Blanca" 1958 2:49
08. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Nueve puntos" 1956 3:25
09. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Don Juan" 1941 2:34
10. Francisco Canaro - Instrumenta "Pampa" 1938 2:50
11. Francisco Canaro - Instrumental "El chamuyo" 1927 2:57
12. Francisco Canaro - Instrumental "Lorenzo" 1938 2:34
13. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "El amanecer" 1951 2:30
14. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Indio manso" 1958 2:53
15. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "A la gran muñeca" 1954 2:43
At last, more practilonga-goers trickle in, and it's time to diversify the music, staring from the dynamic Donato's from the heydays of the Horacio Lagos - Lita Morales - Romeo Gavioli singer trio. "Soy mendigo" ("I am a beggar") in particular floated to to the focus of my attention last week, because of a poetic association with Veronica Toumanova's newly published essay which insisted that tangueros must never "beg for love", that it only brings worse suffering. "Soy mendigo" is, in my eyes, a cool counterpoint - a confident, optimistic tango story of begging for affection. With some luck, I may write a bit more about it later :)
16. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "Lagrimas" 1939 2:50
17. Edgardo Donato "Yo Te Amo (Lita Morales, Romeo Gavio)" 1940 2:50
18. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "Soy mendigo" 1939 2:34
19. Rodolfo Biag - Jorge Ortíz "Lagrimas Y Sonrisas (vals)" 1940 2:41
20. Rodolfo Biagi - Jorge Ortíz "Por Un Beso De Amor (vals)" 1940 2:44
21. Rodolfo Biagi - Teofilo Ibanez "Viejo porton (vals)" 1938 2:27
22. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá "Recien" 1943 2:43
23. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá "Garua" 1943 3:09
24. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá "Todo" 1943 2:37
25. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Tango argentino" 1942 2:37
26. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Marinero" 1943 3:10
27. Enrique Rodriguez - Fernando Reyes "Alma en pena" 1946 3:05
28. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Fama "Milonga sentimental" 1933 3:10
29. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Fama "Milonga del 900" 1933 2:55
30. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Milonga criolla" 1936 3:05
31. Ricardo Tanturi - Enrique Campos "Oigo Tu Voz" 1943 3:07
32. RicardoTanturi - Alberto Castillo "Madame Ivonne" 1942 2:18
33. Ricardo Tanturi - Enrique Campos "Que Nunca Me Falte" 1943 2:42
34. Carlos di Sarli - Alberto Podestá "Lloran las campanas" 1944 2:58
35. Carlos Di Sarli - Alberto Podestá "La Capilla Blanca" 1944 2:55
36. Carlos Di Sarli - Alberto Podestá "Junto a tu corazon" 1942 3:00
And now for a series of special waltzes, for my own birthday & for Lis and Regina's going-away dances, followed by the 4th track "for everybody to dance".
The light-hearted "Cuando estaba enamorado" holds a special place in my personal shrine of tango music ... you may say that my path there started from Homer and Christina's dancing to Canaro's rendition of this vals in Portland in 2010.
37. Francisco Lomuto - Fernando Diaz "Cuando estaba enamorado" 1940 2:19
A Berliner band with several tango-danceable, ethnically inspired tunes remixed and dramatically accelerated a very classic, originally very sorrowful Russian waltz which mourned the war dead of the 1905 Battle of Mukden.
38. 17 Hippies "Time Has Left Me Ma Belle (Vals) aka Manchurian Hills" 2004 3:56
Eugen Doga's most famous movie soundtrack hit is a faux-XIXth century waltz from the "Tender and Affectionate Beast", but milonga-wise, I prefer a different waltz from a virtually unknown flick, composed nearly 15 years later:
39. Eugen Doga "Gramophone" 1992 2:28
The closing track for this special tanda of love and farewell is from the Klezmatics. "Di Goldene Pave", the Golden Peahen, is a fairy-tale flying messenger, and a metaphor for the separation from the loved ones in Yiddish poetry - truly, a metaphor for poetry itself. Chava Alberstein composed the music to a 1920s poem by Anna Margolis, then a recent immigrant from Russia to New York.
40. The Klezmatics & Chava Albertstein "Di Goldene Pave" 2003 4:01
41. Edgardo Donato - Romeo Gavio, Lita Morales "Mi Serenata" 1940 3:02
42. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Lita Morales, Romeo Gavio "Sinfonia de Arrabal" 1940 3:07
43. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "El adios" 1938 3:19
"Pa'que lagrimear" is another recording which I couldn't get out of my head in recent days. The oldtime insistence of the beat, the stretchy sound of bandoneon, the voice of the estrebillista singing only refrains but not the verses of tango lyrics, in a way which has just been recently pioneered by Canaro (Traditionally, danceable tangos didn't have any vocal at all, to keep it easy for the dancers; while tango cancion had all the verses sung. Canaro realized that if a singer stops being a featured soloist, and becomes one of the instruments of a tango orchestra, subservient to the beat like the rest of them, then the dancers might actually like it ... in small quantities. And they did, more and more so with the passage of time, but to this day almost no tango lyrics are sung in their entirety, beginning to end, in the tangos "para bailar". They do sing some verses, but skip others)
44. Adolfo Carabelli - Carlos Lafuente "Pa'que lagrimear" 1933" 2:39
45. Adolfo Carabelli - Alberto Gómez "El 13" 1932 2:37
46. Adolfo Carabelli - Carlos Lafuente "El pensamiento" 1932 2:39
Some of the best contemporary milongas. The first one is truly outstanding.
47. Otros Aires "Los Vino" 2:41
48. Otros Aires "Un Baile De Beneficio" 2010 3:42
49. Otros Aires "Rotos en el Raval" 2005 3:53
50. Osvaldo Fresedo Roberto Ray "No quiero verte llorar" 1937 2:42
51. Osvaldo Fresedo Roberto Ray "Vida mia" 1933 3:23
52. Osvaldo Fresedo Roberto Ray "Isla de Capri" 1935 3:16
(The dance floor is absolutely full of people now but I'm reluctantly deleting lots from the draft list from this point on, in order to wrap it up no more than half an hour later than the practica's official end. Milongas, another vocal Fresedo tanda, and an occasional third-tune-in-a-set get the cut)
53. Anibal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "El Bulín De La Calle Ayacucho" 1941 2:31
54. Anibal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "Tabernero" 1941 3:20
55. Anibal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "Toda Mi Vida" 1941 2:58
56. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Con tu mirar" 1941 2:13
57. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Llora corazon" 1945 2:51
58. Enrique Rodriguez - Ricardo Herrera, Fernando Reyes "Mecha" 1946 3:11
59. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Tristezas De La Calle Corrientes" 1942 2:46
60. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Al Compas Del Corazon" 1942 2:48
61. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Jamas Retornaras" 1942 2:31
62. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Recuerdos De Paris" 1937 3:12
63. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Condena (S.O.S.)" 1937 2:39
64. Alfredo De Angelis "Mi dolor" 1957 2:51
65. Alfredo De Angelis "Pavadita 1958" 2:53
66. Alfredo De Angelis "Felicia 1969" 2:48
67. Osváldo Pugliese "Farol" 1943 3:22
68. Osváldo Pugliese "Remembranzas" 1943 3:41
69. Osváldo Pugliese "La mariposa" 1966 3:32
70. Angel D'Agostino - Angel Vargas "La Cumparsita" 1946 3:00
Both post-Cumparsita tracks sound pretty good, but their youtube videos are even better IMO. The first one is, of course, a spoofy remix of Sholom Secunda's 1932 Yiddish operetta hit, "Bei Mir Bistu Schein", which took the world by storm and must have been performed in dozens languages (there is an Argentine version too, "Para mi eres divina" by Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno)
71. Cream Margot "Poka igraet dzhaz" 3:16
72. Damour Vocal Band "Sway" 3:49
The practica started out as an impromptu follower technique / walk basics class (Julianne, you are amazing!)
So for the first half an hour, I kept adding sets of the more accessible, classic instrumental "tangos for walking".
01. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental "Derecho viejo" 1941 2:31
02. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental "Poliya" 1939 2:31
03. Osvaldo Fresedo - Instrumental "Tigre viejo" 1934 3:01
04. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "El ingeniero" 1952 3:25
05. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Milonguero viejo" 1940 2:21
06. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "El once (a divertirse)" 1946 2:41
07. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Bahía Blanca" 1958 2:49
08. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Nueve puntos" 1956 3:25
09. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Don Juan" 1941 2:34
10. Francisco Canaro - Instrumenta "Pampa" 1938 2:50
11. Francisco Canaro - Instrumental "El chamuyo" 1927 2:57
12. Francisco Canaro - Instrumental "Lorenzo" 1938 2:34
13. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "El amanecer" 1951 2:30
14. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Indio manso" 1958 2:53
15. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "A la gran muñeca" 1954 2:43
At last, more practilonga-goers trickle in, and it's time to diversify the music, staring from the dynamic Donato's from the heydays of the Horacio Lagos - Lita Morales - Romeo Gavioli singer trio. "Soy mendigo" ("I am a beggar") in particular floated to to the focus of my attention last week, because of a poetic association with Veronica Toumanova's newly published essay which insisted that tangueros must never "beg for love", that it only brings worse suffering. "Soy mendigo" is, in my eyes, a cool counterpoint - a confident, optimistic tango story of begging for affection. With some luck, I may write a bit more about it later :)
16. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "Lagrimas" 1939 2:50
17. Edgardo Donato "Yo Te Amo (Lita Morales, Romeo Gavio)" 1940 2:50
18. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "Soy mendigo" 1939 2:34
19. Rodolfo Biag - Jorge Ortíz "Lagrimas Y Sonrisas (vals)" 1940 2:41
20. Rodolfo Biagi - Jorge Ortíz "Por Un Beso De Amor (vals)" 1940 2:44
21. Rodolfo Biagi - Teofilo Ibanez "Viejo porton (vals)" 1938 2:27
22. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá "Recien" 1943 2:43
23. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá "Garua" 1943 3:09
24. Pedro Laurenz - Alberto Podestá "Todo" 1943 2:37
25. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Tango argentino" 1942 2:37
26. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Marinero" 1943 3:10
27. Enrique Rodriguez - Fernando Reyes "Alma en pena" 1946 3:05
28. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Fama "Milonga sentimental" 1933 3:10
29. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Fama "Milonga del 900" 1933 2:55
30. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Milonga criolla" 1936 3:05
31. Ricardo Tanturi - Enrique Campos "Oigo Tu Voz" 1943 3:07
32. RicardoTanturi - Alberto Castillo "Madame Ivonne" 1942 2:18
33. Ricardo Tanturi - Enrique Campos "Que Nunca Me Falte" 1943 2:42
34. Carlos di Sarli - Alberto Podestá "Lloran las campanas" 1944 2:58
35. Carlos Di Sarli - Alberto Podestá "La Capilla Blanca" 1944 2:55
36. Carlos Di Sarli - Alberto Podestá "Junto a tu corazon" 1942 3:00
And now for a series of special waltzes, for my own birthday & for Lis and Regina's going-away dances, followed by the 4th track "for everybody to dance".
The light-hearted "Cuando estaba enamorado" holds a special place in my personal shrine of tango music ... you may say that my path there started from Homer and Christina's dancing to Canaro's rendition of this vals in Portland in 2010.
37. Francisco Lomuto - Fernando Diaz "Cuando estaba enamorado" 1940 2:19
A Berliner band with several tango-danceable, ethnically inspired tunes remixed and dramatically accelerated a very classic, originally very sorrowful Russian waltz which mourned the war dead of the 1905 Battle of Mukden.
38. 17 Hippies "Time Has Left Me Ma Belle (Vals) aka Manchurian Hills" 2004 3:56
Eugen Doga's most famous movie soundtrack hit is a faux-XIXth century waltz from the "Tender and Affectionate Beast", but milonga-wise, I prefer a different waltz from a virtually unknown flick, composed nearly 15 years later:
39. Eugen Doga "Gramophone" 1992 2:28
The closing track for this special tanda of love and farewell is from the Klezmatics. "Di Goldene Pave", the Golden Peahen, is a fairy-tale flying messenger, and a metaphor for the separation from the loved ones in Yiddish poetry - truly, a metaphor for poetry itself. Chava Alberstein composed the music to a 1920s poem by Anna Margolis, then a recent immigrant from Russia to New York.
40. The Klezmatics & Chava Albertstein "Di Goldene Pave" 2003 4:01
41. Edgardo Donato - Romeo Gavio, Lita Morales "Mi Serenata" 1940 3:02
42. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Lita Morales, Romeo Gavio "Sinfonia de Arrabal" 1940 3:07
43. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "El adios" 1938 3:19
"Pa'que lagrimear" is another recording which I couldn't get out of my head in recent days. The oldtime insistence of the beat, the stretchy sound of bandoneon, the voice of the estrebillista singing only refrains but not the verses of tango lyrics, in a way which has just been recently pioneered by Canaro (Traditionally, danceable tangos didn't have any vocal at all, to keep it easy for the dancers; while tango cancion had all the verses sung. Canaro realized that if a singer stops being a featured soloist, and becomes one of the instruments of a tango orchestra, subservient to the beat like the rest of them, then the dancers might actually like it ... in small quantities. And they did, more and more so with the passage of time, but to this day almost no tango lyrics are sung in their entirety, beginning to end, in the tangos "para bailar". They do sing some verses, but skip others)
44. Adolfo Carabelli - Carlos Lafuente "Pa'que lagrimear" 1933" 2:39
45. Adolfo Carabelli - Alberto Gómez "El 13" 1932 2:37
46. Adolfo Carabelli - Carlos Lafuente "El pensamiento" 1932 2:39
Some of the best contemporary milongas. The first one is truly outstanding.
47. Otros Aires "Los Vino" 2:41
48. Otros Aires "Un Baile De Beneficio" 2010 3:42
49. Otros Aires "Rotos en el Raval" 2005 3:53
50. Osvaldo Fresedo Roberto Ray "No quiero verte llorar" 1937 2:42
51. Osvaldo Fresedo Roberto Ray "Vida mia" 1933 3:23
52. Osvaldo Fresedo Roberto Ray "Isla de Capri" 1935 3:16
(The dance floor is absolutely full of people now but I'm reluctantly deleting lots from the draft list from this point on, in order to wrap it up no more than half an hour later than the practica's official end. Milongas, another vocal Fresedo tanda, and an occasional third-tune-in-a-set get the cut)
53. Anibal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "El Bulín De La Calle Ayacucho" 1941 2:31
54. Anibal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "Tabernero" 1941 3:20
55. Anibal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "Toda Mi Vida" 1941 2:58
56. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Con tu mirar" 1941 2:13
57. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Llora corazon" 1945 2:51
58. Enrique Rodriguez - Ricardo Herrera, Fernando Reyes "Mecha" 1946 3:11
59. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Tristezas De La Calle Corrientes" 1942 2:46
60. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Al Compas Del Corazon" 1942 2:48
61. Miguel Caló - Raúl Berón "Jamas Retornaras" 1942 2:31
62. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Recuerdos De Paris" 1937 3:12
63. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Condena (S.O.S.)" 1937 2:39
64. Alfredo De Angelis "Mi dolor" 1957 2:51
65. Alfredo De Angelis "Pavadita 1958" 2:53
66. Alfredo De Angelis "Felicia 1969" 2:48
67. Osváldo Pugliese "Farol" 1943 3:22
68. Osváldo Pugliese "Remembranzas" 1943 3:41
69. Osváldo Pugliese "La mariposa" 1966 3:32
70. Angel D'Agostino - Angel Vargas "La Cumparsita" 1946 3:00
Both post-Cumparsita tracks sound pretty good, but their youtube videos are even better IMO. The first one is, of course, a spoofy remix of Sholom Secunda's 1932 Yiddish operetta hit, "Bei Mir Bistu Schein", which took the world by storm and must have been performed in dozens languages (there is an Argentine version too, "Para mi eres divina" by Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno)
71. Cream Margot "Poka igraet dzhaz" 3:16
72. Damour Vocal Band "Sway" 3:49
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