[Tango-L] Piazzolla is not played at Traditional Milongas

[macfroggy@aol.com]

After the CroMagnon tragedy in 2004, one of the few milongas that was 
allowed to stay open was Club Espanol. Dany Borelli, the DJ, used 
Piazzolla as the cortina because all other music was banned. Or rather, 
for fear of being closed as were most of the milongas, only "musica 
nacional" was played. At this time, there were no tandas of tropical or 
rock 'n roll, because salsa clubs, rock clubs, all other dance venues 
were closed for months. People flocked to provincia where they could 
still dance tango. Starving and frantic dancers came to Club Espanol 
and waited in the lobby to be allowed to enter. The energy was 
palpable. It was a frenzy.


<<Even though the album, as I said, was not dance music, I still think 
that it's
important to know Piazzolla and Gardel to more fully appreciate the 
Argentine
culture, the change in instruments, the evolution of tango music.  It 
gives you
something with which to further contrast and compare.  Sometimes I like 
to use
Piazzolla for some warm-up exercises.

Trini de Pittsburgh>>