Horacio Salgán, an Argentine tango composer and pianist who helped broaden the vocabulary of his musical form and became one of the genre’s most influential and revered maestros, died Aug. 19 in ...

In the last two decades of the 19th century, the dance known as the tango emerges out of the immigrant culture of Argentina's dockside slums. The tango fuses New World, African, and European dance ...

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 ...

Montevideo, 26 dic (EFE).Montevideo, 26 dic (EFE). — El Mercado Agrícola de Montevideo (MAM) puso hoy el broche final a sus actividades del año con una Milonga Avalanchera en la que la música de tango ...

Chamber Music Monterey Bay is stepping out. To create their sixth concert of the season, they have combined the intimacy of chamber music with one of the most intimate of dance forms: tango. The ...

Tango may be most closely associated with Argentina, but it also has a long tradition in Finland. Once a year, the town of Seinäjoki holds a popular festival that draws tango enthusiasts from all over ...

Throughout most of the year, the Northwest BachFest is a showcase for noteworthy pieces — both well-known and underperformed — from the classical chamber music repertoire. Not all of the music in ...

Historically the Vatican has condemned rhythm: it might make people shake their hips and, god forbid, want to kiss and touch and perhaps go even further. Pope Gregory I helped create a music for monks ...