[Tango-L] tango to the blues

[Bruno Romero]

Caroline Polack wrote

>Tango has gone through a long evolution - why should it stop evolving now? 
Where did we draw the line and say ok, on this day, month, year, tango must
no longer change. And who dictated that? <

My 2 cents:

Who dictated that?

The musicians and dancers based on the time and social medium they were in. 
In other words, the style of tango music becomes fashionable. This would
have an effect on the style of dancing. Tango x 2 presented tango style from
1940's may be more for stage, but still with noticeable changes in the tango
choreography. 

Is easy to track down the evolution of tango music particularly from the
late 1930's to early 1940's. The transition in tango music was from
rhythmical to lyricism (romantic emotion). A great of exponent of rhythmical
tango music among many others was the musical director and pianist Francisco
Lomuto a.k.a Pancho Laguna, and of lyricism (romantic emotion) among many
others was the violin player and also musical director Elvino Vardaro. 

* Francisco Lomuto composed close to 1000 records among tangos, jazz,
milongas, candombe, rumbas, paso dobles, etc. However only very few cd's are
commercially available. Francisco's candombes and milongas have more bite
than other composers' music.