The tango is just as riveting and relevant as the classic bolero, Argentine pianist Raúl DiBlasio says. "Tango allows you to make instrumental arrangements with a lot of versatility, because it never ...

No other dance draws a man and a woman into such intimate contact; no other music connects so completely body to body, heart to heart, soul to soul. Tango fulfils the innate human need to hold and be ...

“Mi Buenos Aires Querido,” by Carlos Gardel: “Carlos Gardel is the father of tango, the original, the archetype, the éminence grise. There would be no tango without him. He was killed in an airplane ...

For musicians and aficionados of Argentine tango, the scale and scope of the Astor Piazzolla collection at UC Santa Barbara is staggering. Thousands of pages of the composer’s original sheet music.

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 ...

The quest for personal growth takes many forms in Los Angeles, but few have as lush a soundtrack as Argentine tango. Any night of the week, from minimall studios in Sherman Oaks to balmy promenades in ...

Today's casual observer might be forgiven for thinking of Astor Piazzolla simply as an avuncular accordion-wielding avatar of Argentine tango traditionalism. But he called his music "nuevo tango" for ...

Spring is for lovers. So, it is fitting that the SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club (SBDC) is teaching Argentine Tango, the most romantic of dances, in March. Argentine Tango is one of the most fun ...

We don’t need to give you a weather report, but good grief it’s cold outside, and it probably won’t be heating up anytime soon. And when temperatures drop, sometimes you’ve got to make your own heat.