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All the masters of Tango´s golden
period, gathered for the first time to give life to this
historical and unique book. The result is an exhaustive
generational compilation, an invaluable portrait of that
era and a collective work of extraordinary beauty.
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Horacio Salgán, Mariano Mores, Leopoldo Federico,
Virginia Luque, Atilio Stampone, Carlos García, Aníbal
Arias, Osvaldo Berlingieri, Lágrima Ríos,
Ernesto Baffa, Emilio Balcarce, Chula Clausi, Emilio de
la Peña, Oscar Ferrari, Juan Carlos Godoy, Carlos
Lázzari, Pepe Libertella, Alberto Podestá,
Ubaldo De Lío and other Tango’s living tango
stars are portrayed today as intact, or even better, mature.
The best of Tango during the ‘40s and the ‘50s
is more than a nostalgic echo. In Buenos Aires and Montevideo,
you can still find great veterans of the genre alive and
performing. Among them, there are some who have been nearly
eighty years in the scene. They are creators of truly classical
repertoires, founders of performing schools or genuine representatives
of the styles of Troilo´s, Pugliese´s, D’Arienzo´s
or Di Sarli´s orchestras. Some of them are treated
as international celebrities.
Others have remained in the semidarkness which is left to
worship artists: they are well-kept secrets in cities addicted
to mystery.
Time has granted them wisdom without taking away their energy.
The project CAFÉ DE LOS MAESTROS reunites them all,
for the first time, to record a double album and to create
this book, which is an exhaustive generational compilation,
an invaluable portrait of that era, but it is also much
more than that: a collective work of extraordinary beauty.
This historical book portrays them today as intact or, even
better, as mature. It contains photographs and interviews
with each of the Maestros, evocation of characters and episodes
and a description of the weave that relates them between
each other. The initiation encounter with Carlos Gardel,
the bohemia shared with Aníbal Troilo, the first
instrument and life in the cabaret are some of the recurring
images which are shaping a sort of choral history of Tango.
With unpublished historical images, the book is complemented
with a didactic explanation about the origin and evolution
of Tango until the present time, containing also photographs
of bars and milongas, which show the most genuine elements
of culture nowadays.
For those looking for the humanly genuine in music, here
is CAFÉ DE LOS MAESTROS.
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CAFE DE LOS MAESTROS
Texts: Irene Amuchástegui
Photographs: Nora Lezano y Sebastián Arpesella
Photographs of Bars and Milongas: Florencia Reina
Collectionists’ and Archive’s Historical Photographs
Sponsored: Ministry of Education of Argentina,
Department of Culture of Argentina, Department of Culture
of the city of Buenos Aires,
Under-Secretariat of Tourism of the city of Buenos Aires
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Some web pages where you can find
articles related to this book:
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Cómo seguir de cerca a un gran seleccionado tanguero
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Página 12
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Vuelven los veteranos del tango -
La Nación
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Maestros de los maestros
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Rolling Stone
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¿Te acordás, hermano, qué tiempos aquellos?
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Clarín
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Maestros del tango
- Estación
Tierra
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Leyendas tangueras, Buena Vista Tango Club -
Terra
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Café de los Maestros
- La Nación
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Grandes figuras del tango argentino largan ambicioso proyecto
común
- Emol
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