[Tango-L] Why dancers should judge musicians in Tango not otherwise

[Chris, UK]

AJ Azure <azure.music at verizon.net> wrote:

> [trad tango orchestras'] CDs get scratched,

We do keep backup copies, y'know! ;)

> Boooring , guess what eventually you will tire of the CD ...
> you'll be quite bored with what you have left.

I think that betrays a lack of understanding of the relationship between 
the music and the social tango dancer. The great music's power is such to 
continually change his/her dance experience through the interreactions 
with each different partner, mood, situation... 

...and even each return to the same piece. As the Zen saying goes, "A man 
can never step into the same river twice".

Here's why it's the /new/ "tango" music that soon bores. Gotan, Narcotango 
etc. just don't have this power. I doubt they'll last 5 years, let alone 50.

> If you want good danceable music then you can not have the musician just
> regurgitate old arrangements. ... To re-arrange authentically one must

Fine, but dancers aren't asking for the music to be 're-arranged'. It 
seems the only people who are, are the re-arrangers themselves.

> musicians grow and learn

We live in hope... ;)

--
Chris


-------- Original Message --------

*Subject:* Re: [Tango-L] Why dancers should judge musicians in Tango not otherwise
*From:* AJ Azure <azure.music at verizon.net>
*To:* <Tango-L at mit.edu>
*Date:* Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:45:20 -0500

Boooring , guess what eventually you will tire of the CD and if you piss on
the musicians along the way you'll be quite bored with what you have left.

CDs get scratched, mp3s aack awful quality, musicians grow and learn, That
means it's a growing art. If not half your art is old and stale. If you're
happy with that, more power to you.

-A


>> You have been so spoiled by the greats -- who make it *seem*
>> effortless -- that you think it is effortless.
> 
> Thing is Jeff, for us it is effortless - load Great CD, hit Play. ;)
> 
> You have a hard act to follow! Good luck! ;)
> 
> Chris


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