[Tango-L] Gente de Tango... the Di Sarli style

[Jake Spatz (TangoDC.com)]

Just curious;

How could you "re-create" Di Sarli's arrangements with 4 bandos in the 
orchestra?

Or why?

Jake Spatz
DC


Janis Kenyon wrote:
> A group of musicians in Buenos Aires wanted to get together for the love of
> music and began weekly rehearsals in 1980.  Enrique Seone plays bandoneon
> and is a professional music arranger.  He and Alberto Demaria decided to
> recreate the arrangements of Carlos Di Sarli.  That was no easy task since
> Di Sarli never used sheet music or allowed anyone to film him during
> performances.  Enrique had to transcribe each individual musician's part by
> listening to recordings. Each arrangement took at least ten hours to write
> out.  Guillermo Durante, pianist of Gente de Tango, is the only musician in
> the world able to duplicate the style of Di Sarli.  These musicians
> pay tribute to "the Lord of the Tango," the maestro from Bahia Blanca.
>
> Gente de Tango had their first public performance on November 1, 1981,
> during a broadcast on Channel 11 in Buenos Aires.  Since then,
> they have performed in a variety of venues and have earned a reputation for
> excellence from milongueros and tangueros.
>
> Gente de Tango has received  public recognition from the city of General San
> Martin and has won the Carlos Gardel award on three occasions from the
> Argentina Cultural Association of Tango.
>
> The musicians represent various generations from Ramon Coronel (violin - 91
> years), Juan Luis Gandolfo (violin - 89 years), ex-violinists with Horacio
> Salgan and Juan Cambareri respectively, to Nicolas Aghazarian, the youngest
> of all at 25, who plays three days a week in the subway station at
> Chacarita.  In 2003, they recorded a compact disc entitled, "Al Estilo Di
> Sarli."
>
> Bandoneons: Enrique Seone, Alberto Demaria, Osvaldo  Fumagalli, Nicolas
> Aghazarian;
> Violins: Cesar Palacios, Carlos Manuel Cores, Ramon Eusebio Coronel, Juan
> Luis Gandolfo;
> Piano: Guillermo Silvio Durante
> Contrabass: Eduardo Adrian Iturburu
> Singer: Hector Morano
>
> Don't miss dancing to Gente de Tango when you go to Buenos Aires.
> www.gentedetango.com.ar
>
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