[Tango-L] Dancing socially to Piazzolla

[Barbara Garvey]

Actually, Al and I heard Piazzolla make this statement at a lecture he 
gave in San Francisco on his second and last visit to this city. As I 
recall his exact words were "My music is not for dancing". I can't give 
the precise date (or year) without research but another friend, John 
Rolleri, was also in the audience. At that time many dancers were 
already using his music (played by other orchestras) for dancing in 
performance. However I still haven't heard Piazzolla played at 
traditional milongas.

This is fact, not necessarily my opinion :-)
Barbara, in SF temporarily

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>When exactly did Piazzolla say that he "did not compose music for 
>dancing"? I'd love to see the actual quote, particularly in context.
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