[Tango-L] Report No. 5 on the Tango Festival & Mundial Buenos Aires August 2011

[Shahrukh Merchant]

I wrote:

> If you're referring to Tango orchestras in general in Buenos Aires,
> mostly they do not play in tandas at all ...

Correction--I meant Tango orchestras that play FOR DANCERS AT MILONGAS 
in Buenos Aires (in any given week, there will have been many more tango 
orchestras/trios/groups that will have performed for 
spectators/listeners than for dancers, and of course then there is no 
concept of tandas, at least as we Tango dancers think of it). The 
corrected final paragraph of my last post should have been:

"If you're referring to Tango orchestras that play for dancers at 
milongas in Buenos Aires, mostly they do not play in tandas at all, 
except to some extent for the few orchestras that have one or more 
social Tango dancers among the musicians (e.g., Sexteto Milonguero and 
Orquesta Mariano Bujacich, among others). Generally then, an 
announcement of the previous or following tanda takes the place of a 
cortina."

Shahrukh