Celebrating the rebellious tangos of Astor Piazzolla through dance and live music, choreographer and international tango ...

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 ...

Experience an evening like no other at the iconic Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on Sunday, January 11th and immerse yourself ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. On September 28, the Nashville Symphony releases its latest Naxos recording ...

There's an Argentine proverb that says, "Everything changes except the tango." That was true — until Astor Piazzolla revolutionized the genre. https://p.dw.com/p ...

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 ...

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 ...

For musicians and aficionados of Argentine tango, the scale and scope of the Astor Piazzolla collection at UC Santa Barbara is staggering. Thousands of pages of the composer’s original sheet music.

This “operita” by the Argentine composer and bandeonista has had only a few recordings, none completely satisfactory. I like the insouciant style of this performance from the Cascade Music Festival in ...

This weekend sees the 22nd anniversary of the passing of one of the century's leading South American musicians, Astor Piazzolla. He was rightly lauded as the king of the tango, but there was much more ...

As a budding composer, New Tango master Astor Piazzolla didn’t much care for tango. He wanted to be a classical musician. But he would go on to achieve international fame and grudging recognition of ...