Before we join the International Sejong Soloists in the studio, we hear a recording made by previous Young Artists in Residence, the Eroica Trio. They play "Primavera Portena", a short piece by Astor ...
We revisit our week with the International Sejong Soloists with music by Jose Bragato. Cellist Ani Aznavoorian steps into the spotlight to play Bragato's "Graciela and Buenos Aires." Then we feature ...
Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla was born on March 11, 1921 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, only child of Vicente “Nonino” Piazzolla and Asunta Mainetti. In 1925, the family relocates to New York City until ...
Historically, the tango has been at least as resistant to change as church music — odd, given that the former was born in the whorehouses of Argentina, the one place you’d think anything goes. Not so, ...
Clockwise from top left: Annemieke McLane, Jeremiah McLane, Sarah Cullins, Daniel Gaviria Credit: Courtesy of Piazzolla Project The group has performed just twice since its debut in November 2014 ...
Astor Piazzolla's international breakthrough albums, Tango: Zero Hour and The Rough Dancer And The Cyclical Night (Nonesuch, 1986 and 1991), were made with small groups, with which the bandoneonist ...
Al Teatro Donnafugata l'Accademia teatro alla Scala di Milano, diretta dal maestro Framcesco Manara, le "Quattro stagioni" di Antonio Vivaldi (1725) e "las cuatro estaciones portenas" dI Astor ...
Vivaldi’s famous Four Seasons meets the tango rhythms of Piazzolla’s year in Buenos Aires in this dance around the year. Concertmaster Andrew Haveron is virtuoso soloist in Vivaldi’s dazzlingly ...
Buenos Aires doesn’t forget you, tango that you were and will be. —“Somebody Tells It to the Tango,” Jorge Luis Borges/Astor Piazzolla THE KID WASN’T THRILLED with Dad’s gift — an accordion-like ...