Ástor Piazzolla, the visionary Argentinian composer, band leader and bandoneon virtuoso who created the revolutionary nuevo tango style in the 1950s, is being celebrated around the world today, March ...

Argentinian composer Gustavo Santaollala is best known for his soundtracks (Brokeback Mountain, Babel, Motorcycle Diaries), but his side project, Bajofondo Tango Club, now called just Bajofondo goes ...

There's an Argentine proverb that says, "Everything changes except the tango." That was true — until Astor Piazzolla revolutionized the genre. Rarely is the name of a composer and musician so closely ...

When you celebrate someone’s 100 th birthday, you always do it in style. Therefore, Apollo Chamber Players will pull out all the stops for the Argentinean tango composer Astor Piazzolla, who would ...

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 ...

The tango music of Astor Piazzolla sways to a seductive beat, its rhythms unhurried but relentless, its harmonies yearning for resolution. People even casually familiar with tango music have heard ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. A more revealing, soul-searching look into the life of Astor Piazzolla, considered ...

Bonilla-Torres / Mancini / Mertes / Beethoven Orchestra Bonn / Sprenger (Capriccio, two CDs) Piazzolla’s 1968 work is supposed to be the story of tango itself, but this concert performance isn’t quite ...

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 ...