Carlos Gardel was one of tango’s — and Argentina’s — great heroes and superstars. The French-Argentine singer, songwriter and composer wrote and recorded hundreds of classic tangos, many with his ...

The Jazz Kitchen will host an extraordinary concert this Sunday, October 15, when a pair of virtuoso pianists join forces for a celebration of contemporary Argentine tango music. The program is part ...

Horacio Salgán, an Argentine tango composer and pianist who helped broaden the vocabulary of his musical form and became one of the genre’s most influential and revered maestros, died Aug. 19 in ...

The suave singer is synonymous with tango. Gardel revolutionized the style of music and brought it from the underground dance salons to the... Carlos Gardel: Argentina's Tango Maestro On the streets ...

Corazon Tango presents traditional and contemporary Argentine tango pieces arranged by world-renowned maestros from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The program will include a variety of solo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHAMPAIGN-URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — A festival that brings together dancers, musicians and people interested in learning more about ...

Held every Thursday afternoon in Lowell Lecture Hall, Theater, Dance, and Media 149DA: “Argentine Tango: Culture, Music, and the Dance” is one of many classes offered for the first time this year in ...

Like American jazz, Argentine tango music was born of multicultural interaction. Africans, Europeans and South Americans, thrown together during Argentina’s economic expansion at the turn of the 20th ...

In the waning years of the tango’s “golden age,” which spanned the 1930s to the mid-1950s, the Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) began writing irresistible music that melded elements of ...

If you go to a milonga, or social dance, to do tango dancing in Buenos Aires, you’ll likely be doing it to live music. In western Massachusetts? No so much. Now, though, Western Mass Tango, which has ...

Istanbul’s many tango schools, clubs and skilled dancers have won the city recognition, even among Argentine maestros, as a ...