Libertango - Modern Chamber Orchestra

News

2011-09-16T05:48:00.001-07:00

Waiting...

I will let you know when we will start with the band this winter

At the moment, I am writing new music :)

Þið eruð bestar

2011-03-27T12:05:00.001-07:00

Takk

Libertango,

great year, great band

You are the best!

Tvöföld sorg - Tristeza en doble A

2011-03-23T03:00:00.000-07:00

Dear Libertango,

Please check these recordings from our piece Tvöföld sorg, they are from the other NOTAN series (Akureyri and Eskifjördur). It is important to hear yourself in a critic way, trying to get something positive from that!

Rútan til Eskifjarðar

2011-03-16T04:33:00.000-07:00

Kæri Libertango,

Við erum að fara til Eskifjörður á laugardaginn.
Strætó mun fara kl 9:00, svo vinsamlegast að þú verður að vera hér á réttum tíma.

Mundu að læra svolítið meira, það er líklega síðustu tónleikar Libertango á þessu tímabili.

Tónleikarnir hefjast kl 14:00 og við verður aftur á Akureyri einhvern tíma á 21:00.

Sjáumst á laugardaginn klukkan 09:00!

Til hamingju!

2011-03-07T03:38:00.001-08:00

Dear Libertango,

Well done!
Til hamingju!
Congratulations!

We did it yesterday!

Next practice: tuesday March 15th
Trip-Concert: Saturday, March 19th

NOTAN

2011-03-02T14:02:00.001-08:00

Hello Libertango,

You will need to be at Hamrar (HOF) at 9am on saturday March 5th.

Please be there on time. All participans are called to be there at 9am.

We are going to play the second one in this contest so we are going to finish around 10.30am

It will be nice to see you there on time, I would like to practice and play at least one time before everything starts...

Thank you very much and... see you on saturday (Laugardagur)!

Alberto Porro Carmona

Dagur Tónlistarskólanna

2011-02-27T07:11:00.000-08:00

Dear Libertango,

I don't have words to describe how you have played yesterday.
So, it is goind amazing, thank you very much!

See you on tuesday at 7pm.

Concert and film

2011-02-24T16:26:00.000-08:00

Dear Band,

I will see you on saturday at 2.30pm

Please, remember black dress with something red.

We are going to play two songs (Tristeza and Hugsun).

I also wanted to leave here a very interesting film from Luciano Berio, a great composer of XX century. Please play this film, I am sure you will find something interesting here (you need to press the red play botton, avoid the publicity and press the green play botton).

Be ready for something complete new!

I also want to show you a different string quartet by Penderecki: "String Quartet No.1"

It is interesting. Listen this video. Boulez: "Rituel"

Last news

2011-02-08T12:54:00.000-08:00

Hello there,

Thank you very much for today, It was lovely. I really like our band, it is the nicest in town!
I am sending Hugsun, so please, take a look. It will be much easier if you check the mp3.

I wanted to let you know about Libertango's program-concerts:

-February 26th.
Day of the Music School. Concert in HOF (Akureyri) at 3.30pm

-March 5th

-March 19th
NOTAN Eskijördur. It is a contest where we will play in Eskijördur

-March 26th
NOTAN Reykjavík (we will play in Reykjavík only if we will get it in Eskijördur)

-March 29th.
Sigurdís Sandra próf

We will check next week:

- Sadness on doble A
- Hugsun
- Libertango
- Michelangelo

So, see you next tuesday February 15th at 7pm

Have a nice week,
Best regards,

Alberto Porro Carmona

Starting!

2011-01-12T02:23:00.000-08:00

Dear students,

We will start practicing again next February 8th at 7pm

So you know about it!

I also want you to know about next concerts we have already on plan:

- February 26th. Day of the music school

- March 5th. Notan TonAk Concert

- April 6th. Concert on Sígurdis Sandra próf

See you in a few weeks,

Have fun!

Alberto

Libertango after-holidays

2011-01-01T13:32:00.000-08:00

Hello students,

Happy new year :)

We will start again on late January (after MA tests).
Please, check this site to know more about it.

2011!

concerts, new material, new compositions, trips and a lot of fun

:)

Alberto Porro Carmona

Tristeza en doble A y Responso

2010-11-09T12:33:00.005-08:00

Dear students,

I would like to show you Responso and Tristeza en doble A.
Please check these videos!

They are really cool ;)

RESPONSO

TRISTEZA EN DOBLE A

ORIGINAL VERSION FROM RESPONSO

I hope you will like it :)

Best regards,

Alberto

New song from Piazzolla

2010-11-09T10:30:00.000-08:00

Dear students,

We are going to play "Tristeza en doble A" from Astor Piazzolla, I have arranged it for today.
It is easy and very emotional.

See you at 7pm,

Alberto Carmona

Tango Technique

2010-11-02T14:07:00.000-07:00

Dear students,

I would like to show you some videos about "Tango String Technique".

Please check this out, it will help you with the band.

There are: látigo, arrestre, triplet pizzicato, articulating, chicharra and strapatta.

Yes, this Jeremy Cohen is not Piazzolla or something similar but he will give you an idea about this technique. It is also interesting even if you are playing flute, saxophone or other instrument (please check this out).

LÁTIGO

ARRESTRE

TRIPLET PIZZICATO

ARTICULATING TANGO TECHNIQUE

CHICHARRA

STRAPATTA

First practice!

2010-10-19T10:21:00.000-07:00

Dear students,

We will have our first practice next tuesday November 2nd at 7pm (í stofu Dynheimum á 2. hæð.)

Libertango players 2010/2011:

Ásta Óskarsdóttir (fiðlu)
Steinunn Atladóttir (fiðlu)
Sigrún Mary McCormick (fiðlu)
Árný Arnarsdóttir (víóla)
Hrafnhildur Marta Guðmundsdóttir (selló)
Sigurbjörg Inga Björnsdóttir (selló)
Sunna Friðjónsdóttir (þverflauta)
Sigurdís Sandra Tryggvadóttir (saxófónn)
Ásta Soffia (harmónikku)
Sunna Björnsdóttir (píanó)

Please, bring your music notes for this day. If you don't have notes (Sigurdís, Ásta, Sunna, Sigurbjörg and Sigrún) you will get it this day or even before (I will try to contact you).

We will have to play a few old numbers and we will play new music as soon as we will spend time together. I need to know you before I will write music for you. Please contact me if you have any question at 8411428 (Alberto)

See you in two weeks,

Alberto

Libertango players 2010-2011

2010-09-24T05:07:00.000-07:00

LIBERTANGO

Ásta Óskarsdóttir (fiðlu)

Steinunn Atladóttir (fiðlu)

Sigrún Mary McCormick (fiðlu)

Árný Arnarsdóttir (víóla)

Hrafnhildur Marta Guðmundsdóttir (selló)
Sigurbjörg Inga Björnsdóttir (selló)

Sunna Friðjónsdóttir (þverflauta)

Sigurdís Sandra Tryggvadóttir (saxófónn)

Ásta Soffia (harmónikku)

Sunna Björnsdóttir (píanó)

Takk Libertango!

TAKK

Viðurkenningar skólanefndar Akureyrarbæjar

- Alberto Carmona kennari við Tónlistarskólann á Akureyri, hlaut viðurkenningu fyrir frábæran árangur og jákvæð áhrif á skólastarfið.

Laugardaginn 5. júní sl. bauð skólanefnd Akureyrarbæjar til uppskeruhátíðar í Listasafninu í fyrsta skipti, þar sem veittar voru viðurkenningar fyrir framúrskarandi árangur, starf, áhuga og vilja. Markmiðið er að vekja sérstaka athygli á því sem vel er gert og hvetja þá sem fyrir valinu verða til þess að halda áfram því góða starfi sem þeir eru að vinna og jafnvel gera enn betur. Viðurkenning er einnig staðfesting á að viðkomandi skóli/kennari/nemandi er fyrirmynd annarra á því sviði sem viðurkenning nær til.

Skólanefnd taldi mjög mikilvægt að uppfylla þetta ákvæði í skólastefnunni nú þar sem athyglin hefur beinst í ríkari mæli að því sem miður hefur farið í samfélaginu. Því er ástæða til að beina athyglinni að því sem vel er gert og byggir að mestu á áhuga og vilja einstaklinganna til að gera sem best úr því sem þeir hafa.

Valnefnd sem skipuð var Elínu Margréti Hallgrímsdóttur formanni skólanefndar, Guðjóni Hreini Haukssyni fulltrúa samtaka foreldra og Trausta Þorsteinssyni fulltrúa Skólaþróunarsviðs HA, fór yfir allar tilnefningar og gerði tillögu til skólanefndar sem skólanefnd samþykkti á fundi sínum þann 31. maí sl.

TAKK Libertango!

That's for all of us!

Alberto Porro Carmona

NO REHEARSAL

2010-09-14T10:23:00.000-07:00

BAND,

NO REHEARSAL UNTIL NOTICE

Nei æfingu fyrr tilkynningar

WAIT, I WILL CONTACT YOU

BUT WE WILL START AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

Best regards,

Alberto

HOF Concert + Rehearsal

2010-08-25T03:32:00.000-07:00

Dear Band,

Please check it out the time for rehearsal and concert at HOF.

We have had a few changes on the timetable, less concerts and no time for rehearsal (some of you will play with symphony, lay low...)

Rehearsal:

August 29th - 14pm - Rehearsal at HOF.

Concert:

August 29th - 15.15pm/15.45pm and or 17.15pm/17.45pm

Songs:

Please check this numbers at home, we don't have much time... We will just play easy numbers...

Por una cabeza

Contracellisimo

Rispondimi

La cumparsita

Libertango

Michelangelo

If you have questions, please let me know at 8411428 or alcarmonita@gmail.com

I am sorry for changes,

See you on saturday and please be on time,

Alberto

Dates

2010-05-27T06:43:00.000-07:00

Hello Band,

Please read this information.

Wednesday-Thursday, August 25th + 26th

Rehearsal at HOF

I will let you know the time by our web site.

Friday, August 27th

Concert at HOF’s OPENING

New cultural house

Saturday, August 28th

2 Concert at HOF’s OPENING

12.00pm (Botanic Garden)

17.10pm until 17.40pm (HOF)

Monday, August 30th

Concert at HOF’s, first day of the music school

Alberto Carmona

May and Summer's plan

2010-05-11T11:43:00.000-07:00

Hello band,

Please check this video of Maria with our special orchestra.

Thursday, May 13th

Framhaldsprófstónleikar Þuríðar Helgu á fiðlu fimmtudaginn 13. maí 2010 kl. 16.00 í Ketilhúsinu

We will play Rispondimi

Thursday, May 13th

Framhaldsprófstónleikar Guðrúnar Svönu á sal skólans kl. 18.00

We will play contracellisimo

Wednesday-Thursday, August 25th + 26th

Rehearsal at HOF

I will let you know the time by our web site.

Friday, August 27th

Concert at HOF’s OPENING

New cultural house

Saturday, August 28th

Concert at HOF’s OPENING

Monday, August 30th

Concert at HOF’s, first day of the music school

Music:

1. Por una cabeza

2. Rispondimi
3. Contracellisimo
4. Libertango
5. La cumparsita

6. Michelangelo ‘70
7. Adiós Nonino

Band’s conductor:

Alberto Carmona / 8411428 / alcarmonita@gmail.com

May program

2010-05-05T06:03:00.000-07:00

Hello Band,

Please check our dates for May...

May 12th
Rehearsal at Tónlistarskólinn á Akureyri, 7pm

May 13th
2 Concerts:

-Þuríður graduation at 4pm
Ketilhús. We will play Rispondimi

-Guðrún gradution at 6pm
Tónlistarskólinn á Akureyri. We will play Contracellisimo

It is really important to be on time and please remember that we have two concerts during the same day.

I am waiting for a Hospital's answer. It will be great to play this concert at the Hospital before holidays.

Please let me know if you have quesitons

Alberto Carmona
8411428

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Tónlistarskólinn á Akureyri - A Strengjasveit + Big Band project

2010-04-30T02:55:00.001-07:00

Dear Bamd,

Special project at Tónlistarskólinn á Akureyri. Strengjasveit 3 + Big Band are playing "María" from WWS from Maestro Leonard B.

PHOTOS

Theater - Tango Band

2010-04-09T05:44:00.000-07:00

Hello tango band,

It was very nice to make this colaboration with the Theater. I am sure that you will remember this spanish genius "Federico García Lorca" and the passionate play "Blood Wedding".

We will not have rehearsal next wednesday April 14th, I want you to have some relax. It's not good to saturate yourselves.

We are just going to study a little bit more of this Contracellisimo piece for Gudrunn graduation.

Have a nice weekend,

Alberto

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Congratulations

2010-03-16T09:00:00.000-07:00

Dear ladies,

I am more than proud of your play last saturday. You showed how to play with feelings and you made it better than never.

I am sure that we will have fun in Reykjavík and you will bring something good from there.

We need to talk tomorrow night about the dates and planing of this Reykjavík weekend but mainly I would like to suggest:

Friday March 26th
We will leave Akureyri at 5.30pm or 6pm

Saturday March 27th
I don't know yet when we are going to play but I will let you know as soon as possible. The contest will start at 10am until 2pm. The jury will tell the decision around 4pm.

In the night, there is a possibility of playing a concert in Reykjavík downtown with Tango Dancers in a open Milonga.

We can also find time for this tango master lesson with the violin teacher.

Sunday March 28th
Back to our lovely Akureyri

What do you think?

I will see you tomorrow wednesday March 17th at 7pm in room number 8 as usual.

Thank you very much and I wish you a good day,

Alberto Carmona

Thank you!

2010-02-27T12:20:00.000-08:00

Thanks
Thanks
Thanks

You played really well today, I am very happy of having a band as you!

It was beautiful and powerful!

As you know, I wrote this chart from an old argentinian Tango, I really hope that you enjoyed and you liked it. I will start working in another one as soon as possible, let's see if I can get it in two weeks.

Planing:

March 3rd - NO rehearsal

March 10th - Rehearsal at 7pm

Let's start to work about you own piece. As I said, I will try to prepare other Tango Piece as soon as possible (It will take time and nights hehe)

I will see you in two weeks,

Thanks again,

Alberto P. Carmona

CONCERTS

2010-02-24T03:35:00.000-08:00

Dear Band,

We have a rehearsal today at 6.40pm because the MA singing contest!
Please be there on time,

I also would like to inform you about two concert that we will have in advance:

FEBRUARY 27TH
Day of the music school
2pm

APRIL 7TH
Music for poem and text
Colaboration with the theater
Akureyri's Theater

I also would like to ask you about the Reykjavík weekend,
We have the possibility of playing a concert there and work with the violin teacher.

APRIL 24-25
Concert in Reykjavík + Workshop with a TANGO violin player

Please, let me know if you have another question or if you want to have other option.

Best regards,

Alberto Porro Carmona

February planin

2010-02-09T11:58:00.000-08:00

Hello band,

I want to let you know about our planin during February.

10 - February. Normal rehearsal at TONAK

17 - February. NO REHEARSAL

24 - February. Rehearsal, we will play "Contracellísimo" and "Adios Nonino"

27 - February. "Day of the Music School", we will play a concert at 2pm

Please, check your scores.

I will see you tomorrow wednesday at 7pm

Have a nice evening,

Alberto

Concert!

2009-10-28T03:41:00.000-07:00

Hello Band,

We will play a concert next tuesday at 3.30pm (Art Museum)

CONCERT
3.30pm - Art Museum

Please, you must come today at 7pm (wednesday October 28th) to our regular rehearsal.
We will play just for 20-25 min.

Tango Band 2009/2010:

Violin: Þuríður Helga Ingvarsdóttir
Violin 2: Rakel Sigurðardóttir
Violin 2: Sunna Björnsdóttir
Viola: Árný Arnarsdóttir
Flute: Anna Gunnarsdóttir
Acc.: Guðný Valborg Guðmundsdóttir
Guitar: surprise!
Piano: Steinunn Atladóttir
Cello: Guðrún Svana Hilmarsdóttir
Cello: Hrafnhildur Marta Guðmundsdótti

Conductor: Alberto P. Carmona

See you tonight,

Alberto P. Carmona

And finally...

2009-10-06T06:48:00.000-07:00

Hello Band,

Wow! It looks like we are/were busy people ;)

You had a lot of things to do during last September... I hope that we will start as soon as possible and we will have as much fun as last year.

I am sick today :( but I will try to make it tomorrow. Anyway, I also wanted to explain about the 09/10 band members:

Violin: Þuríður and Rakel

Viola: Árný

Flute: Anna G.

Acc.: Guðný

Guitar: surprise!

Piano: surprise!

Cello: Marta and Guðrún

We will be 10 players on the band (with myself)

I also would like to hear your ideas, I am not like playing only tango this year and we can make wherever you want (ok, not Michael Jackson songs).

Let's be in touch and write down if you have some idea or just something funnny

Alberto

Back to Buenos Aires de Islandia

2009-08-26T14:13:00.000-07:00

Hola Tangueras del norte!

We will start next wednesday at 6pm. I am working in "Tristeza en doble a", a nice piece from Astor Piazzolla with a lot of "meat" inside ;)

We WILL PLAY A CONCERT

September 10

TWO SONGS/NUMBERS

Rehearsal time:

Wednesday at 6pm at room number 8

Best regards,

Alberto Carmona

Recording

2009-05-17T06:47:00.001-07:00

Hello Tangueras!

You can download our two tracks here:

Invierno Porteño (DOWNLOAD)
Por una cabeza (DOWNLOAD)

I will see you next year with next songs and next energy. Lets try to play something different!

All the best...

Alberto

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17. Final weeks

2009-04-29T07:31:00.000-07:00

Hello band,

We will not make a rehearsal next thursday April 30th but...

Rehearsals:

Thursday May 7th at 19m

Thursday May 14th at 19pm

We will play a concert next Friday May 15th

(final school concert)

We will make the recording next Saturday 16th

Please let me know if you have some problems to attend this dates

Alberto P. Carmona

8411428

16. Easter holidays

2009-04-02T15:24:00.001-07:00

Hello band,

We will have more than three weeks off (easter + reykjiavík trip) and I ask you to study all our numbers because we will make the recording in May.

See you next 23th of April

Check this wapango version by a cuban string quartet

15. Nice videos on youtube

2009-03-20T13:41:00.001-07:00

Hello Band,

Take a look of this videos, there are really good...

It was Fracanapa from Piazzolla and now Revirado by Astor Piazzolla too.

Contemporary Music?

2009-03-07T07:44:00.000-08:00

Hello band,

Contemporary Music: It is any music being written in the present day. This could include any kind of present music.

You should hear this music. I know that you have some difficulties with the 20 century but you must try!

I will start with three important cds...

I want also to tell you that we will make a recording in a studio. We will have our own cd!

LUCIANO BERIO
Sequenzas I-XIV (complete)

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE CD

The first, Sequenza I came in 1958 and is for flute; the last, Sequenza XIV is for cello (2002). These works explore the possibilities of each instrument to the full, often calling for extended tecniques.

IGOR STRAVINSKY
Le sacre du printemps

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE CD

"The rite of Spring". The music is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential and most reproduced compositions in history.

OLIVER MESSIAEN

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE CD

This all-star chamber ensemble was specifically formed to play Messiaen's masterpiece. Two decades after this recording was made, it still shows the effects of their intense identification with the music. Some listeners find Messiaen's music longwinded and difficult, and my own opinion varies depending on the work and my mood.

But this piece, written in a German concentration camp during the early years of World War II, is truly one of the greatest works of music of the 20th century. Although it lasts nearly an hour, its variety of color and its powerful expressiveness will engross any responsive listener, especially in this performance.

I hope that you will like this cds,

Warm regards,

Alberto

13. Por una cabeza

2009-02-27T10:21:00.000-08:00

Hello!

Planin:

Next rehearsal Thursday 12th March,
at 7pm

We will make a RECORDING in a studio... We will have our own Tango cd!

Next concerts Jazztango weekend in Reikjiavik
16-19 April

Anna's test next 19th of March

POR UNA CABEZA - TONAK TANGO BAND

Best regards,

Alberto Carmona

12. Tango Videos

2009-02-25T04:25:00.000-08:00

Hello Band,

Thank you very much for our last concert! It was no more than good but enough...

Planin:

Next rehearsal
Friday, 6 of March at 6.30pm

Next concerts
Jazztango weekend in Reikjiavik
23-26 April

See you next week!

Alberto Carmona
alcarmonita@gmail.com
Phone: 8411428

11. Akureyri Tango Festival

2009-01-12T08:38:00.000-08:00

Hello Band,

NEXT CONCERT:

AKUREYRI TANGO FESTIVAL

21 - FEBRUARY

10PM - Milonga (Dj)

11.30PM - Libertango's Concert

PLUS:

You are invited to join FREE the Tango dancing course during the weekend. We will have professional dancers from Reikjiavik. It will be fun! Let's dance!

Please, try to listen these songs:

Get your own Moonk!

We have two concerts in February (Tango Festival!)

Good luck with your examinations

Alberto

Merry Christmas + Surprise

2008-12-19T07:28:00.000-08:00

Hello Band,

Thank you very much for these amazing mothns with you. I would like to wirh you a merry christmas and happy new year.

You can check the full concert of GOTAN PROYECT (90 minutes) for free.

Enjoy
Peace and love

Alberto

10. Top Models

2008-11-24T10:47:00.000-08:00

Hello Band,

Wow!

That's tango! We miss Cécile, Hjörleifur and our new violin player but It's a good photo, no?

Wow, what a happy face have everybody! Please, check this song. We will play three afro-cuban chamber music chart:

Please, click here to download WAPANGO

Please, click here to download HABANERAS

Please, click here to download PRELUDIO Y MERENGUE

Jaja, see you next thursday at 7pm

Alberto

9. Concert - Libertango (Video)

2008-11-19T17:35:00.000-08:00

Hello band,

Now, you can see the video on youtube.

Please, leave a comment with your feelings about the concert and the song. Good? Bad? Getting better? Leave a comment, leave a comment! (I really apreciate it, I want to see what you think about).

NEXT CONCERT: 4 - DECEMBER AT 9PM (RESTAURANT)

My opinion: getting better, bad sound (place), not balance, no dinamics but happy in general. Fun!

Thank you very much, we are getting better and better. I will try to give you my best present: a niiiiiiiice holidays in spain (and of course, more more more music).

Alberto

8. CONCERT

2008-11-14T02:08:00.000-08:00

NEW CONCERT

WEDNESDAY PROGRAM:

17.30PM: PHOTO SESSION

18.00PM: REHEARSAL

20.00PM: CONCERT AT THE BOOK STORE

WORKSHOP

SATURDAY 29 AND SUNDAY 30 OF NOVEMBER
HUSAVIK

CONGRATULATIONS!

We had some mistakes but we really made it very well. Tango music is more flexible than classical music but OK, we need to work with a few things that we made wrong yesterday.

What do you think about the concert? Did you enjoy? What do you like? What don't you like?

And... I need to tell you sorry because my special big mistake. I am so so so sorry! I can't make this things.

WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER: CONCERT AT THE BOOK STORE (8.00 PM)

7. Preludio y Merengue

2008-10-31T04:52:00.000-07:00

CONCERTS:

THURSDAY, 7PM REHEARSAL AT TONAK (MUSIC SCHOOL)
9.30PM CONCERT

SATURDAY: CONCERT + DINNER AT RESTAURANT

WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER: CONCERT AT THE BOOK STORE

Hello lovely band,

This is my first proposition:

Preludio y Merengue (Paquito D'Rivera). My teacher's composition (he won a grammy with this cd).

If you want to check the music (please), go to this link (Preludio y Merengue, RIBERAS cd):

http://www.deezer.com/track/2053558

AND IMPORTANT: Let me know if you want to play with chart because I need to write to Paquito and ask to send us the sheet music.

Is it too difficult?

Please, let me a comment about this Preludio and Merengue

Alberto Carmona
Phone: 8411428

6. Recording! Recording!

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Thank you very much!

WE WILL GO TO SPAIN NEXT APRIL OR MAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I will bring you the track of "Por una cabeza" as soon as she will send me!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I love to work with you and I really enjoy today.

Alberto Porro Carmona "Al Carmona"

5. Music! Music! Music!

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New MUSIC

You will find our next tango chart! Please, leave a comment... I want to know what you want to do... And thank you, I really enjoy during every rehearsal with you!

Please, check specially these charts: Libertango, Adios Nonino, Tristeza en Doble A, La Camorra (Mafia), Verano Porteño, Primavera Porteña o Otoño Porteño.

Modern Tango
Astor Piazzolla in New York (Central Park Concert)
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This cd is amazing!!!

Modern Tango
Yo-Yo Ma plays Piazzolla (Chelo)
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Classic Tango
Sexteto Mayor
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One of the most famous tango band

Modern Tango
Astor Piazzolla and the Kronos Quartet (Violin, Viola and Chelo)
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Kronos Quartet is one of the most famous string quartet in the history of music (now, you can listen this quartet with Piazzolla wow!)

Modern Tango
The Solitude of Passionate provocation
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Compositions of Piazzolla about the Mafia (La Camorra)

Modern Tango
Astor en Buenos Aires (Live in Buenos Aires)
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MORE TANGO Music

Electronic Tango
Gotan Project
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Gotan Project is a musical group based in Paris, formed in 1999.

Electronic Tango
Bajofondo Tango Club
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Argentinian famous Band

Classic Tango
Haydée Alba
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Beautiful voice and wonderful classic Gardel songs

Classic Tango
Carlos Gardel
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Old music, the first tango spirit

Classic Tango
Anibal Troilo
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Old famous singer

TECNICAL EXERCISES

Please check these videos, that's the tango tecnique!

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Alberto Porro Carmona "Al Carmona"
Akureyri, 16-October 2008

4. Michelangelo, Por una Cabeza and Invierno Porteño

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Alberto

MICHELANGELO 70

Astor Piazzolla

Audio Version

Album: "Astor en Central Park"

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Video Version

Astor Piazzolla Quintet

POR UNA CABEZA

Carlos Gardel

Audio Version

Buenos Aires Orchestra

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Video Version

Scent of a Woman (Al Pacino Film)

INVIERNO PORTEÑO

Astor Piazzolla

Audio Version 1

Sexteto Mayor (Great Argentinian Band)

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Audio Version 2

Buenos Aires Orchestra

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Audio Version 3

Astor Piazzolla

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Video Version

Raul Jaumera with the Monteviedo Philarmonic Orchestra

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3. Astor Piazzolla... "Grosso"

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ASTOR PIAZZOLLA

Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla (March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. An excellent bandoneonist, he regularly performed his own compositions with different ensembles. He is known in his native land as "El Gran Ástor" ("The Great Ástor").

Musical style

Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer around 1970.

Piazzolla's nuevo tango was distinct from the traditional tango in its incorporation of elements of jazz, its use of extended harmonies and dissonance, its use of counterpoint, and its ventures into extended compositional forms. As Argentine psychoanalyst Carlos Kuri has pointed out, Piazzolla's fusion of tango with this wide range of other recognizable Western musical elements was so successful that it produced a new individual style transcending these influences. It is precisely this success, and individuality, that makes it hard to pin down where particular influences reside in his compositions, but some aspects are clear.

The use of the passacaglia technique of a circulating bass line and harmonic sequence, invented and much used in 17th and 18th century baroque music but also central to the idea of jazz "changes", predominates in most of Piazzolla's mature compositions. Another clear reference to the baroque is the often complex and virtuosic counterpoint that sometimes follows strict fugal behavior but more often simply allows each performer in the group to assert his voice. A further technique that emphasises this sense of democracy and freedom among the musicians is improvisation that is borrowed from jazz in concept, but in practice involves a different vocabulary of scales and rhythms that stay within the parameters of the established tango sound-world. Pablo Ziegler has been particularly responsible for developing this aspect of the style both within Piazzolla's groups and since the composer's death.

With the composition of Adiós Nonino in 1959, Piazzolla established a standard structural pattern for his compositions, involving a formal pattern of fast-slow-fast-slow-coda, with the fast sections emphasizing gritty tango rhythms and harsh, angular melodic figures, and the slower sections usually making use of the string instrument in the group and/or Piazzolla's own bandoneon as lyrical soloists.

The piano tends to be used throughout as a percussive rhythmic backbone, while the electric guitar either joins in this role or spins filigree improvisations; the double bass parts are usually of little interest, but provide an indispensable rugged thickness to the sound of the ensemble. The quintet of bandoneon, violin, piano, electric guitar and double bass was Piazzolla's preferred setup on two extended occasions during his career, and most critics consider it to be the most successful instrumentation for his works. This is due partly to its great efficiency in terms of sound - it covers or imitates most sections of a symphony orchestra, including the percussion which is improvised by all players on the bodies of their instruments - and the strong expressive identity it permits each individual musician. With a style that is both rugged and intricate, such a setup augments the compositions' inherent characteristics.

Despite the prevalence of the quintet formation and the ABABC compositional structure, Piazzolla consistently experimented with other musical forms and instrumental combinations. In 1965 an album was released containing collaborations between Piazzolla and Jorge Luis Borges where Borges's poetry was narrated over very avant-garde music by Piazzolla including the use of dodecaphonic (twelve-tone) rows, free non-melodic improvisation on all instruments, and modal harmonies and scales. In 1968 Piazzolla wrote and produced an "operita", María de Buenos Aires, that employed a larger ensemble including flute, percussion, multiple strings and three vocalists, and juxtaposed movements in Piazzolla's own style with several pastiche numbers ranging from waltz and hurdy-gurdy to a piano/narrator bar-room scena straight out of Casablanca.

By the 1970s Piazzolla was living in Rome, managed by the Italian agent Aldo Pagani, and exploring a leaner, more fluid musical style drawing on more jazz influence, and with simpler, more continuous forms. Pieces that exemplify this new direction include Libertango and most of the Suite Troileana, written in memory of the late Anibal Troilo. In the 1980s Piazzolla was rich enough, for the first time, to become relatively autonomous artistically, and wrote some of his most ambitious multi-movement works. These included Tango Suite for the virtuoso guitar duoSergio and Odair Assad; Histoire du Tango, where a flutist and guitarist tell the history of tango in four chunks of music styled at thirty-year intervals; and La Camorra, a suite in three ten minute movements, inspired by the Neapolitan crime family and exploring symphonic concepts of large-scale form, thematic development, contrasts of texture and massive accumulations of ensemble sound.

After making three albums in New York with the second quintet and producer Kip Hanrahan, two of which he described on separate occasions as "the greatest thing I've done", he disbanded the quintet, formed a sextet with an extra bandoneon, cello, bass, electric guitar, and piano, and wrote music for this ensemble that was even more adventurous harmonically and structurally than any of his previous works (Preludio y Fuga; Sex-tet). Had he not suffered an incapacitating stroke on the way to Notre Dame mass in 1990, it is likely that he would have continued to use his popularity as a performer of his own works to experiment in relative safety with even more audacious musical techniques, while possibly responding to the surging popularity of non-Western musics by finding ways to incorporate new styles into his own.

In his musical professionalism and open-minded attitude to existing styles he held the mindset of an 18th century composing performer such as Handel or Mozart, who were anxious to assimilate all national "flavors" of their day into their own compositions, and who always wrote with both first-hand performing experience and a sense of direct social relationship with their audiences. This may have resulted in a backlash amongst conservative tango aficionados in Argentina, but in the rest of the West it was the key to his extremely sympathetic reception among classical and jazz musicians, both seeing some of the best aspects of their musical practices reflected in his work.

Musical career

Piazzolla, after leaving Troilo's orchestra in the 1940s, led numerous ensembles beginning with the 1946 Orchestra, the 1955 "Octeto Buenos Aires", the 1960 "First Quintet", the 1971 "Noneto", the 1978 "Second Quintet" and the 1989 "Sextet". As well as providing original compositions and arrangements, he was the director and Bandoneon player in all of them. He also recorded the album [[Summit]] with jazz baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan.

His numerous compositions include orchestral work such as the "Concierto para bandoneón, orquesta, cuerdas y percusión", "Doble concierto para bandoneón y guitarra", "Tres tangos sinfónicos" and "Concierto de Nácar para 9 tanguistas y orquesta", pieces for the solo classical guitar -- the "Cinco piezas", as well as song-form compositions that still today are well known by the general public in his country, like "Balada para un loco" (Ballad for a madman) and Adiós Nonino (dedicated to his father) which he recorded many times with different musicians and ensembles. Biographers estimate that Piazzolla wrote around 3,000 pieces and recorded around 500.

In the summer of 1985 he appeared with his Quinteto Tango Nuevo at the Almeida Theatre in London for a week-long season.

2. History of Tango

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HISTORY OF TANGO (2º)

Ballroom tango

Ballroom tango illustration, 1914.

Ballroom tango, divided in recent decades into the "International" (English) and "European" styles, has descended from the tango styles that developed when the tango first went abroad to Europe and North America. The dance was simplified, adapted to the preferences of conventional ballroom dancers, and incorporated into the repertoire used in International Ballroom dance competitions. English Tango was first codified in October 1922, when it was proposed that it should only be danced to modern tunes, ideally at 30bars per minute (i.e. 120 beats per minute - assuming a 4/4 measure).

Subsequently the English Tango evolved mainly as a highly competitive dance, while the American Tango evolved as an unjudged social dance with an emphasis on leading and following skills. This has led to some principal distinctions in basic technique and style. Nevertheless there are quite a few competitions held in the American style, and of course mutual borrowing of technique and dance patterns happens all the time.

Ballroom tangos use different music and styling from Argentine tangos, with more staccato movements and the characteristic "head snaps". The head snaps are totally foreign to Argentine and Uruguayan tango, and were introduced in 1934 under the influence of a similar movement in the legs and feet of the Argentine tango, and the theatrical movements of the pasodoble. This style became very popular in Germany and was soon introduced to England, one of the first proponents being Mr Camp. The movements were very popular with spectators, but not with competition judges (Source: PJS Richardson, History of English Ballroom Dancing, Herbert Jenkins 1946, page 101-102)

Finnish tango

The tango spread from the dominant urban dance form to become hugely popular across Finland in the 50s after the wars. The melancholy tone of the music reflects the themes of Finnish folk poetry; Finnish tango is almost always in a minor key.

The tango is danced in very close full upper body contact in a wide and strong frame, and features smooth horizontal movements that are very strong and determined. Dancers are very low, allowing long steps without any up and down movement. Forward steps land heel first, and in backward steps dancers push from the heel. In basic steps, the passing leg moves quickly to rest for a moment close to the grounded leg.

Each year the Tangomarkkinat, or tango festival, draws over 100,000 tangophiles to the central Finnish town of Seinäjoki, which also hosts the Tango Museum.

Tango Nuevo

In the late 1990s a new style of tango dancing began appearing worldwide. Tango Nuevo dance style features an open embrace, fluid partner movements, trading of lead and further regional reinventions of the tango dance. Tango Nuevo is largely fueled by a fusion between tango musicand electronica, though the style can be adapted to traditional tango and even non-tango songs. Gotan Project released their first tango fusion album in 2000, quickly following with La Revancha del Tango, released in 2001.

Bajofondo Tango Club, a Rioplatense music band consisting of seven musicians from Argentina and Uruguay, released their first album in 2002. Tanghetto's album Emigrante (electrotango) appeared in 2003 and was nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2004. These and other electronic tango fusion songs bring an element of revitalization to the tango dance, serving to attract a younger group of dancers.

Technique comparison

A choreographed and stylized gancho
Argentine, Uruguayan and Ballroom Tango use very different techniques and vocabularies, to the point where some consider them related in name only. In Argentine tango, the body's center moves first, then the feet reach to support it. In ballroom tango, the body is initially set in motion across the floor through the flexing of the lower joints (hip, knee, ankle) while the feet are delayed, then the feet move quickly to catch the body, resulting in snatching or striking action that reflects the staccato nature of this style's preferred music.
In Argentine tango, the steps are typically more gliding, but can vary widely in timing, speed, and character, and follow no single specific rhythm. Because the dance is led and followed at the level of individual steps, these variations can occur from one step to the next. This allows the dancers to vary the dance from moment to moment to match the music (which often has both legato and/or staccato elements) and their mood.
The Argentine Tango's frame, called an abrazo or "embrace," is not rigid, but flexibly adjusts to different steps, and may vary from being quite close, to offset in a "V" frame, to open. The American Ballroom

Tango's frame is flexible too, but experienced dancers frequently dance in closed position: higher in the elbows, tone in the arms and constant connection through the body. When dancing socially with a beginners, however, it may be better to use a more open position because the close position is too intimate for them. In American Tango open position may result in open breaks, pivots, and turns which are quite foreign in Argentine tango and International (English) tango.

There is a closed position as in other types of ballroom dance, but it differs significantly between types of tango. In Argentine Tango, the "close embrace" involves continuous contact at the full upper body, but not the legs. In American Ballroom tango, the "close embrace" involves close contact in the pelvis or upper thighs, but not the upper body. Followers are instructed to thrust their hips forward, but pull their upper body away, and shyly look over their left shoulder when they are led into a "corte."

In Argentine tango open position, the legs may be intertwined and hooked together, in the style of Pulpo (the Octopus). In Pulpo's style, these hooks are not sharp, stacco ganchos, but smooth ganchos.

In Argentine Tango, the ball or toe of the foot may be placed first. Alternately, the dancer may take the floor with the entire foot in a cat-like manner. In the International style of Tango, "heel leads" (stepping first onto the heel, then the whole foot) are used for forward steps.

Ballroom tango steps stay close to the floor, while the Argentine Tango includes moves such as the boleo (allowing momentum to carry one's leg into the air) and gancho (hooking one's leg around one's partner's leg or body) in which the feet travel off the ground. Argentine Tango features other vocabulary foreign to ballroom, such as the parada (in which the leader puts his foot against the follower's foot), the arrastre (in which the leader appears to drag or be dragged by the follower's foot), and several kinds of sacada (in which the leader displaces the follower's leg by stepping into her space).

Finnish tango is closer to the Argentine than to Ballroom in its technique and vocabulary. Other regional variations are based on the Argentine style as well.

1. History of Tango

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HISTORY OF TANGO

Tango is a musical genre and its associated dance forms that originated in Buenos Aires,Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay and spread to the rest of the world soon after that.

Early tango was known as tango criollo, or simply tango. Today, there are many tango dancestyles, including Argentine Tango, Uruguayan Tango, Ballroom tango (American and International styles), Finnish tango and vintage tangos. What many consider to be the authentic tango is that closest to that originally danced in Argentina and Uruguay, though other types of tango have developed into mature dances in their own right.

History

The dance originated in lower-class districts of Buenos Aires. The music derived from the fusion of various forms of music from Europe.^[1] Jorge Luis Borges in "El idioma de los argentinos" writes:"Tango belongs to the Rio de la Plata and it is the son ofUruguayan "milonga" and grandson of the "habanera". The word Tango seems to have first been used in connection with the dance in the 1890s. Initially it was just one of the many dances, but it soon became popular throughout society, as theatres and streetbarrel organs spread it from the suburbs to the working-class slums, which were packed with hundreds of thousands of European immigrants.

In the early years of the twentieth century, dancers and orchestras from Buenos Airesand Montevideo travelled to Europe, and the first European tango craze took place inParis, soon followed by London, Berlin, and other capitals. Towards the end of 1913 it hit New York in the USA, and Finland. In the USA around 1911 the name "Tango" was often applied to dances in a 2/4 or 4/4 rhythm such as the one-step. The term was fashionable and did not indicate that tango steps would be used in the dance, although they might be. Tango music was sometimes played, but at a rather fast tempo. Instructors of the period would sometimes refer to this as a "North American Tango", versus the "Rio de la Plata Tango". By 1914 more authentic tango stylings were soon developed, along with some variations like Albert Newman's "Minuet" Tango.

In Argentina, the onset in 1929 of the Great Depression, and restrictions introduced after the overthrow of the Hipólito Yrigoyen government in 1930 caused Tango to decline. Its fortunes were reversed as tango again became widely fashionable and a matter of national pride under the government of Juan Perón. Tango declined again in the 1950s with economic depression and as the military dictatorships banned public gatherings, followed by the popularity of Rock and Roll. The dance lived on in smaller venues until its revival in 1983 following the opening in Paris of the show Tango Argentino created by Claudio Segovia & Hector Orezzoli. This show made a revolution worldwide, and people everywhere started taking tango lessons.

In 1990, dancers Miguel Angel Zotto and Milena Plebs founded the "Tango X 2" Company , generating novel spectacles and that a great current of young people incline for the dance of the tango, an unusual thing at the time. They created a style that recovered the traditional tango of the milongas, renewed it and placed it as central element in its creations, doing an archeological search of the diverse styles of the tango.

Many shows toured around the world, such as Broadway Musicals Tango Argentino & Forever Tango, Tango X 2, and Tango Pasion among others.

Tango styles

Tango postcard, c. 1919

Tango Show in Buenos Aires

Tango consists of a variety of styles that developed in different regions and eras of Argentinaand Uruguay as well as in other locations around the world. The dance developed in response to many cultural elements, such as the crowding of the venue and even the fashions in clothing. The styles are mostly danced in either open embrace, where lead and follow have space between their bodies, or close embrace, where the lead and follow connect either chest-to-chest (Argentine tango) or in the upper thigh, hip area (American and International tango).

Different styles of Tango are:

Tango Argentino
Tango Oriental (uruguayo)
Tango Canyengue
Tango Liso
Tango Salon
Tango Orillero
Tango Milonguero (Tango Apilado)
Tango Nuevo
Show Tango (also known as Fantasia)
Ballroom Tango
Finnish Tango
Filipino Tango

These are danced to several types of music:

Tango
Vals (the tango version of waltz)
Milonga (a related dance that usually has a faster tempo)
Tango Electronico
"Alternative Tango," i.e. non-tango music appropriated for use in the dance

The "milonguero" style is characterized by a very close embrace, small steps, and syncopated rhythmic footwork. It is based on the petitero or caquero style of the crowded downtown clubs of the '50s.

In contrast, the tango that originated in the family clubs of the suburban neighborhoods (Villa Urquiza/Devoto/Avellaneda etc.) emphasizes long elegant steps, and complex figures. In this case the embrace may be allowed to open briefly, to permit execution of the complicated footwork.

The complex figures of this style became the basis for a theatrical performance style of Tango seen in the touring stage shows. For stage purposes, the embrace is often very open, and the complex footwork is augmented with gymnastic lifts, kicks, and drops.

A newer style sometimes called "Tango Nuevo" has been popularized in recent years by a younger generation of dancers. The embrace is often quite open and very elastic, permitting the leader to lead a large variety of very complex figures. This style is often associated with those who enjoy dancing to jazz- and techno-tinged "alternative Tango" music, in addition to traditional Tango compositions.