[Tango-A] NA-W: In Albuquerque - Two live tango music events this holiday season!

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For anyone visiting Albuquerque or Santa Fe this holiday season, we have two
exciting live tango music events: a concert featuring Extasis from Denver on
Dec. 29, and a live music milonga on Jan. 2, featuring Geraldo Perez,
bandoneonist from Montevideo, accompanied by piano and bass. Here are the
details... Hope you can join us!

Friday, December 29: The Eight Seasons of Venice and Buenos Aires -- 18th
century Venice meets 20th century Buenos Aires as Albuquerque Chamber
Soloists presents Antonio Vivaldi's beloved "Four Seasons" and Astor
Piazzolla's "Four Seasons" (the original tango band version including
bandoneon). Piazzolla's Four Seasons will be performed by special guest
artists, the Extasis Tango Band of Denver.

Time: 6:00pm at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 114 Carlisle SE in the Nob
Hill business district. Tickets are $15 & can be purchased (cash or check
only) at Washburn Piano, 5000 Cutler NE at San Mateo and I-40 in the
Pavilions Shopping Center, or at the door. A post-concert reception for
audience and performers will be held courtesy of Whole Foods Market.
More information at: http://www.abqcs.org/winter/index.htm

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Tuesday, January 2: Special Live Music Milonga at Kelly's Brewery, 3222
Central Ave SE, in the Nob Hill business district, 8:00-11:00pm, $10
suggested. Bandoneonist, Gerardo Pérez of Montevideo, with Lenny Tischler on
bass and Ronald Strauss on piano. DJ, Paul Akmajian (between live sets).

Dr. Gerardo Pérez of Montevideo, Uruguay is becoming widely acclaimed in may
parts of the world for his sensitive and skillful playing of the bandoneon.
A gift given to him by his father, he has played the bandoneon since the age
of eleven. is He is noted celebrity in his community for his work in
hospitals and nursing homes, as a physician and musician, providing
wonderful concerts to his patients. His credits include:

-  Jan 19, '06 Grand Opening and appointment as Maestro Bandoneonista of the
American Tango Institute in Chicago, Illinois
- Feb 26, '06 playing the Bandoneon Concerto with Symphony Orchestra by
Astor Piazzolla with the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Marcello
Buziki conduting, Marian Anderson String Quartet, Principals in Residence,
College Station, Texas
- 2001 to 2003 member of Mala Junta Cuartet/Quintet in Montevideo performing
at the 14th Annual Joventango International Tango Festival.

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Bass: 
Lenny Tischler was born and raised in New Jersey. As a child he took private
classical piano lessons and at the age of 12 he received honors in piano
performance from the Griffith Foundation in Newark. As a teenager playing
piano, Tischler and neighborhood friends started a quartet and played
occasional gigs local events. During that time he frequented jazz clubs in
New York City especially one owned by his mother¹s cousin, Junior¹s Bar on
52nd  Street. By 1969 Tischler had acquired a graduate degree in Sociology
from the New School for Social Research in New York City and began a career
in teaching and social services in the Midwest & Colorado.
 
While in Colorado, Tischler founded and was artistic director of the Wet
Mountain Valley Jazz Festival, later to become known as Jazz in the Sangres.
In 2004 Tischler was honored at the20th anniversary of the festival. In
1985, Tischler and his family moved to New Mexico where he was working as a
therapist and teaching part time at University of New Mexico. Between 1985
and today Tischler has been a bass player in many and various jazz groups
including his own jazz trio and quartets performing in Santa Fe, Taos and
Albuquerque. He has been member of the bass section of the Santa Fe
Community Orchestra since 1997.

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Piano:
Ronald Strauss
Pianist RON STRAUSS served as composer, arranger, accompanist and
musical director for theatre, dance, and cabaret productions in San
Francisco and New York before moving to Santa Fe in 1986. He has
played tangos in Paris, Basel, and St. Petersburg.  A grant recipient
from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Eugene O'Neill
Foundation, he has written for the concert hall as well as for theatre
and dance.  In 2001, his opera "Queen of the Night" premiered at the
Atelier de la Main d'Or in Paris and, more recently, Serenata of Santa
Fe has performed some of his chamber works.  He is currently
accompanist in the Performing Arts Department and the Contemporary
Music Program at the College of Santa Fe.

For more information, e-mail us at info at abqtango.org