radiotelefonia Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Today is the National Tango Day, an informal event created in 1980 to have a good excuse to gather together with friends on Carlos Gardel's and Julio De Caro's birthday. So to celebrate, I leave you for now a clip of an obscure silent film, from Argentina, that is preserved by Roberto Di Chiara but I guess that, if things continue as they are now, we are not going to see. The film is called LA DAMA DE MEDIANOCHE which is a 1924 coproduction between Argentina, Brasil and Italy and it stars Leticia Quaranta y Carlo Campogalliani, who also directed. Produced by Argentine pioneer Federico Valle, the film has a interesting feature, that you can see in the clip. The tango that the couple is dancing is called "Buenos Aires" by Manuel Jov?s and future director Manuel Romero. The score is available online, if somebody wants it. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QycLtrg8-C8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGulch Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 National Tango Day! Count me in! And for next year I'll get a t-shirt printed with: 'PERDON, NO HABLO ESPANOL! Um, sorry but my Spanish needs work... Muchas gracias! Message was edited by: MissGulch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 I like the tango music from the early 1900s.... the orchestration tends to be simple, and the instruments don't overpower the delicacy of the melody and rhythm.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiotelefonia Posted December 12, 2007 Author Share Posted December 12, 2007 Here is a musical theme that was performed by the bandoneon duo of Pedro Maffia and Pedro Laurenz that they used to play in the Select Lavalle movie theater back in 1926. The tango is called "Pura ma?a", by Maffia himself and here is the sheet music, with his photo (I rescued myself, after correcting the name printed in the score since the tango was improperly credited to his brother!): Here is the unrestored and slightly incomplete recording of the tango by the Maffia-Laurenz duo for the Victor Talking Machine microphone (the duo's first electric recording) from 07/11/1926. http://www.esnips.com/doc/42156959-31d4-438e-8ef1-dd73e6d20fbc/183.--Pura-Ma%C3%B1a(T)Pedro-Maffia--c-Pedro-Laurenz-y-Pedro-Maffia.1926.-RCA to download: http://www.esnips.com/nsdoc/42156959-31d4-438e-8ef1-dd73e6d20fbc/183.--Pura-Ma%C3%B1a(T)Pedro-Maffia--c-Pedro-Laurenz-y-Pedro-Maffia.1926.-RCA This tango is from a series that I restored six years ago. It was extremely difficult to reconstruct this recording, and I occasionally abandoned the project due to the difficulties I was unable to overcome (I am no engineer). But I was finally able to recreate the original recording which has been destroyed to the point that it has vanished from the RCA Victors archives. If you want the restoration, let me know and I will post it. For primitve tangos, here are two by Juan Maglio "Pacho", with their sheet music that he recorded for Columbia in 1912 that were the ones that imposed the recording industry in Buenos Aires. In those early days, movies were played in cafes were you could find orchestras (actually a quartet) like this one. I myself tried to restore the second score (to make it readable). The recordings were restored by H?ctor Lorenzo Lucci for a 1983 reprint by CBS records (when the company was still known as Columbia): ARMENONVILLE, tango Music by Juan Maglio (Pacho) Performer: Orquesta T?pica "Pacho" Recording label: Columbia Record number: T-520 Master disc: 56606 Recorded in 1912 ? Columbia Graphophone, Co. http://www.esnips.com/doc/cd8a459d-64a4-4b18-9f8a-752dc7541b0d to download : http://www.esnips.com/nsdoc/cd8a459d-64a4-4b18-9f8a-752dc7541b0d UN COPETIN, tango Music by Juan Maglio (Pacho) Performer: Orquesta T?pica "Pacho" Recording label: Columbia Record number: T-522 Master disc: 56609 Recorded in 1912 ? Columbia Graphophone, Co. http://www.esnips.com/doc/af1202e0-2276-49ff-b670-118e6de285df to download: http://www.esnips.com/nsdoc/af1202e0-2276-49ff-b670-118e6de285df Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pktrekgirl Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 Hummm....National Tango Day, huh? Sounds like a good excuse to watch a Valentino film, if you ask me! Still...interesting topic - I never knew such a day existed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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