[Tango-L] Live music

[astrid]

> > Can dancers tolerate tempo changes (like we often find in Pugliese,
> > Troilo, Calo)?
>
>
> For tempo changes I would think familiarity with the music is important.
> Personally I did not like Pugliese in the beginning because he kept
changing
> his tempo. But after getting more familiar with his music I totally love
> him.

For some people, excactly the strong accents and expressiveness are the
reason they love Pugliese. For a music lover like me, raised to a daily
background of classical music, it was much easier to get into Pugliese and
Piazzolla than into crummy old recordings with noise, that had exactly the
same tempo through the whole song, and sometimes song after song. (All this
changed once I discovered De Caro and fell in love with the atmosphere)
>
> Are syncopas (used by every golden era dance orchestra) ok?
>
>
> Ok? they are awesome I think. The more the better. After taking a string
of
> musicality classes I understand how important the role of syncopas is in
the
> golden age orchestras. Disarli donato use syncopa or syncopa like sounds
> extensively. If you can play with them like demare does, you rock.
>
> how about breaks (cortes) where the beat drops out for a moment?
>
>
> Breaks are something that make a song danceable in the most obvious way. I
> love them.

I had the most amazing experience last Sunday, something that could have
been straight out of Zen, and I use that word carefuly as I know what it
actually means.
I was dancing with the guy who competes in tap dancing competitions. After
doing all kinds of rhythmical play, corridas, traspie and whatnot, there was
one slower song, no idea what it was, quite interesting and full of
variations. We were dancing, and suddenly, the music stopped, suspended in
midair, much longer than a usual syncopa (somehow I don't think it was
between two songs). The man seemed to know this song, and he continued the
turn we were in, our legs swung forward together, hit the ground, step, back
together, step, I could almost hear the echo of those steps in the silence,
and then the music came back on, the song continued, and we were still
perfectly on the beat !
Wow !