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First Tuesday

Experiments in musicality. Three song tandas where each song is the same but performed by different orchestras.

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Feeling the Music

You cannot simply tell a leader to “feel the music” and expect him to feel it. You can however tell him that he is expected to feel the music.

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Just enough education to perform

["Just enough education to perform" was the title of the third album by Welsh band Stereophoincs] My position regarding the teaching of tango is the typical Irish response of “Well, if I was going to there, I wouldn’t be starting … Continue reading

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Which comes first

Which comes first: the music or the dance?

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On Musicality

Maybe, just maybe, she’s as interested in the music as you are.

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Skeletal

In response to Simba and Tangocommunter‘s recent posts. I’ve encountered among contemporary artists an almost consistent fear of structure. “Oh it’s so restrictive” they moan. To me this exposes their misunderstanding of the structures in question. They view structure as … Continue reading

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Inhabit it

There are days that I have and address there that I don’t occupy. Some times I live there and others I’m just at home. But none of that is enough. You have to inhabit the music.

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Under my skin

You try and get under my skin and I’ll try and get under the orchestras skin.

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What are they playing?

Of all the lists of neo-tango or alt-tango song suggestions I can’t remember one that I listened to1 that I jumped at going ‘that’s a tango!’. One example would be Maroon 5′s Secret I just don’t get the tango in … Continue reading

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The Score

Tango music is more than a “toon“. It is the score to the film of the dance. As we know a film score is more than incidental background music but is an integral part of the story panning out in … Continue reading

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