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asked to be a solo revolutionise tango in breaking with convention he brought this traditional argentine music out of the dance hall and into concert venues around the world. that. they they mean of something 1955 something new appeared tango intended for listening to. this was a groundbreaking development it was tango that was no longer only for dancing that was completely new it. is innovative tango which enraged traditionalist in his day drew inspiration from jazz klezmer music bach stravinsky and bartók p.s. solo went on to become one of the leading composers of the 20th century and 1960 i discovered each really was speaking about me one called me. sasson you know when
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that generated the other one murder i was having fun i was in the media they made me popular. i remember the rest of the morning like this i called actually going when he saw my face. shot and when he's insulted me and he called me a communist. he went away i. like the dogs will you look at the head like that so what did he do this for me i didn't do nothing i only changed the tango that's all i. thank. god that i let. him stand here today this is the
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beginning of a race your net for him. whereas you know i got. was a. little piece of it was a little. bit of a bit of a success if. you keep. your soul and his 2 children deanna and danielle had a complex relationship marked by periods of closeness and times of silence even estrangement. deanna pierce all eventually decided to write a biography of her father in preparation she recorded a series of interviews which no one would see for many years the conversations marked the end of a long period of deep discord deonna died in 2009 several years after the book was published. planned to write about asteroid.
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she mentioned it to him my father's 1st reaction was no biographies are about the dead not the living under the law of. daniel pierce solo who is also a musician is now the custodian of his father's legacy danielle's relationship with foster was not always easy times of deep affinity and musical collaboration alternated with long periods of separation. but always united the father and son was a love of fishing. maybe it was your becoming my father and i went shock machine together only what it was in some glass in 1961. i think what made my father strong was the problem with his leg he tried to conceal it but he couldn't hide it. by when you looked at him his left leg was a pillar and his right was scrawny. it always upset him if someone had called him
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limp he would have attacked the. us european solar was born march 11th 1921 in mar del plata argentina. it was a town of fishermen and immigrants that the local elites hope to transform into a luxury a seaside resort. pastor was born with a clubfoot in an attempt to correct it he underwent 7 surgeries the 1st when he was just a year old after each surgery he spent many months in a cast. his mother assumed to and his father be thin to decided not to have any more children fearing they might be born with a similar disability. and known you know as his parents were called pampered their only child. after the last surgery the p.s. all a family decided to start a new life in new york. i lived in exile in mexico for 9 years. my father had just given
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a concert at the stage and said you want to write about my life. i was puzzled it seemed it suddenly changed his mind so then we met every day from 5 to 11 in the morning very disciplined recorded his whole life on tape. i wanted to know what he was like as a boy as a young man and i. say. if your soul is settled in a poor district of new york as immigrants their lives were difficult and demanded many sacrifices. no you know found work in a hair salon owned by a sicilian gangster the backroom harbored illegal betting well in the french no nina shampooed the female clientele the wives and daughters of the jewish mafia on tuesdays and on thursdays the italian mafia. it was the era of prohibition. the p.s. all is sometimes made whiskey in their best which they delivered by side car.
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pastor p. a soul absorbed the vibrancy of the city. by the roots my father happened upon the instrument at a pawn broker in new york's jewish quarter. he bought the bandoneon and brought it home for me. i thought he brought me a fan. i didn't know what it was. we don't know he explained it was a bandoneon the instrument played in the music i listen to every night you're going to play it was an order you're going to study the band on him you.
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want to story my ears frozen sometimes crying in pain he took me to the bronx to study with ted and to cheat twice a week my father made that sacrifice. he says i don't know deana if i would have done it this year he believed in me. but he believed in me in a certain way as if i were a genius. but i'm not he made me feel important. and that's how he set the course for my life. in 1935 the famous argentine tango singer carlos del arrived in new york to act in
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a film no nino an ardent admirer of tango wanted to give him a gift a wooden statue he carved himself a store was intrusted with the delivery when gardell heard a story play he invited him to appear in the film. very very morning a great deal well you. know you're. the encounter with gardell helped shape posterous future. all i can tell you is we were very close. to weeks before god i'll die i received a telegram from new york asking me to go on tour with him. but. luckily because of a family problem. i couldn't and i didn't die. on. the plane on which carlos codell was traveling crashed in colombia.
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in 1936 overcome by homesickness the p.a solace returned to argentina aster was torn away from the creative energy of bjork. in modo plata aster received word that a famous tango orchestra would be performing. he went to the concert and asked to audition the musicians were astounded by the 16 year old's daring. he played gershwin and bach on the bun dhoni owned spoke spanish with an american accent their response was swift they invited him to buenos aires to join the orchestra. but i knew i had to talk to my father and mother about it i told them i had to and my father was happy. he was losing me and he knew it i said i'm leaving he said something like your mother is going to cry she'll be very sad.
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for a boy osiris and moved into a shabby boarding house with other musicians he missed his parents and often wept at night but he was tenacious he practiced constantly and played at the novelty cabaret. other orchestras began to take note of the 17 year old bun dhoni on player . they called him a tenderfoot. i entered the world of gigolos and prostitutes a world of drugs drunks and gamblers. a world apart which i participated and as a member of an orchestra. there were 13 musicians in the orchestra 12 lived with a woman they've heard i was living with a woman he'd have killed me. you see. in
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1939 arthur rubinstein performed at the theatrical bone in buenos aires. found out where he was staying and brought him the score of a concerto composed in his honor. rubenstein examined the score and told him it was not a concerto or had left out the orchestral part rubenstein advised him to study composition with the noted argentine composer. i had a way about and it was like speaking to a cleric. but i studied hard and was happy. i went to concerts at the tatra cologne to rehearse analyzed works records i started to listen and that sparked a change in me. in 1942 us to marry didi wolf did he was studying painting and like to sing they shared a deep bond. she poured herself into our stories but in musical career. when he set for poems by jorge luis borges to music for an album to be performed by
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must appear solo became known as the tango revolutionary who spoke to listeners in an entirely new language of music yes ola broke with traditional tango melodies and rhythms and with the way the bunn dani on was played. what's less well known is that in the 1940 s. he was a star of classical tango orchestras. well still a student p.s. solo began composing arrangements for the most famous orchestras of the time including for. but for every 100 notes auster wrote struck out 20 so i asked her decided to quit. when his son daniel was born in 1945 astor was playing with if you're into an orchestra where no one disputed his arrangements. that are still young to make a different kind of music and found his own orchestra even if he would earn less money from it. he managed to bring together the best musicians in argentina and in
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1946 he founded the orchestra. jump in years and i know better than we don't know the n.s.a. program the lonely me with the new the last of them equally it appears that without going to get to a scene or your bike out east you alan you're right this book we are number one was because i got it with you michael b. governors are a global voices. wish we had for really was in the book i mean that when you look at. it we were going to be what i used. to sort of had made great strides during his studies. he ventured a big decision he would give up the money on he decided to stop performing in nightclubs and leave tango behind instead he would focus on composing classical symphonies. in 1953 astor one the 5 in 7 ski prize for his symphony of wayne osiris which came with
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a stipend to study orchestration in paris. eat miss i took the bandoneon with me just in case. the one who was the best composers went to paris to study with. she was like a 2nd mother to me. she wanted to know how i lived my life if i was a good person. are you married of course i have 2 children she told me that's good . i studied every day he she was a torturer. digital are you going to she read my symphonies course she said it's well written but where spirits all are i want to know what does pizzolatto who is. in the end i told her i played the bandoneon she had known.
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that's the only instrument the call hindemith couldn't play. he said do you like it i love it she made me play tango. took my 2 hands is this is it. is it she heard my style the harmonies and the rhythm. she didn't hear the cha cha cha the chim common to tango she heard a new tango. that opened my eyes i picked up my benoni and never put it down again. later but. in paris suster was steeped in creative ferment he worked day and night composed many tangos and recorded an album
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with the paris opera orchestra. armed with all this new music us to return to buenos aires he felt unstoppable he returned home like a gladiator determined to fight for his music and sparked a musical controversy. argentina had just suffered 2 months of rising violence on september 16th 1955 president one tyrone was overthrown in a coup d'etat 3 years after the death of evita put on. a military junta took power and a new era of uncertainty began. they don't because i don't fell and tango along with him or that it was strange. going to go evaporated bolero exploded bill haley took off with boogie woogie rock'n'roll and all that stuff and a form of tango died because no one was dancing tango yet but at that moment i was
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born not because of. the middle. of. that same year us tippi a solo once again brought together the best tango musicians and founded the uptick to buenos aires. controversy erupted his tango a vote quickly met with fierce resistance. you know. there. you are that you have to believe that you're going to be able to say that i want to go back and they'll think i'm going back and forth you have your. honor your honor and i mean my. wife and i want to know. something.
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i don't. know what i'm not buying it for that because i don't want to put up any minute now. you know you got anything better now that i've. come back and i'm not. we often had to play for free no one wanted to listen to the ensemble i was very discouraged and when i get discouraged i leave the boy. who didn't give any warning. we all make the same sudden foolish decisions like my grandfather dad moved to new york just like me no i was studying piano with martha branch to playing the chopin preludes. i played incredibly well. my father
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said you're going to study at juilliard school of music you juilliard like glenn gould and the other great artists. are things turned sour in new york but they didn't let on so d.n.r. and i wouldn't worry. things went badly really badly i even stole hands from the market i didn't have a dime. one day i took one of my records to a studio cbs. never forget what they said it's very beautiful but in this country it's not what you know but who you know that counts. driven by financial difficulties us to resolve to do what he had always rejected to
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go on tour and play traditional tango accompaniment to dance shows. in 1959 during a tour in puerto rico just as he was about to go on stage he received a call from mar del plata his father no nino had just passed away. he decided to play anyway. back in new york astor asked his family to give him a few moments. alone in half an hour he composed adios noni you know. i still remember no nino who always teased sad people. get up you little mope you have to play he always wanted me to play so that's what i did with
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but if you don't believe we present to you the most modern and innovative expression of tango a style that has propelled the art of rust or p.r.s. owner to the center of the world's music making. this was the start of the most exposure i'd ever had playing every night for a very small audience but they started to really listen and understand what my quintet was trying to accomplish. yet that's it it was a new form of music especially popular with bands of jazz with night outs who went out to listen and enthusiastic if it's a. store
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in davies relationship fell into a silent crisis. coming out of my not that you know my sister and i we all live together until 19650966. my father left and it destroyed our family. hello who is that dad how are you i'm leaving ok see you later. no i'm moving out what do you mean you're moving out i packed a few bags you can bring them to this hotel take them to this address between scent
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mountain and florida. i stood there like an idiot because i never imagined something like that could ever happen that we had a wonderful family. with us are gone days sank into depression. several months later danielle left home too and then deanna left for northwest argentina to work with the country's poorest. diddy was left alone. i left. i had no home nothing i worked constantly i didn't care about the house i just wanted to write. here i was selfish but that egotism gave me the strength to keep going. to see that it opened up. don't forget it takes more courage to leave than it does to stay.
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ended a divorced in 1966. and . i'm going to ask you straight are you bitter you know enough absolutely not i had a bad temper because they attacked me i used to have quite a temper like that you know but when i ask you because in a newspaper a few weeks ago. you implied that you were recognized in europe while in your own country you were criticized or rejected but you don't hold the esteem you deserve.
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i had opportunities to do wonderful things. i received proposals from france to work with george most duckie from italy to work with militia and i'll be any more projects than i could have imagined. here i have nothing there i have everything i wanted to. tell me my father left for italy he wrote me soon after danny i'm sending you a tape of what i just recorded. when i heard it it sounded like quincy jones but it was my father's music.
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store was new country and was brimming with new ideas the italians liked his music and he felt at home there. his popularity in italy continued in france. success in europe gave him access to an international audience paving the way for collaboration with other established artists like george was to keep it a wrong move a mark of the lochiel rostropovich high turnover low so enjoying all again.
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everywhere you go it's my father returned one morning in march 78. after a long stay in europe master appears on is back in argentina. are you here to stay . for the moment yes are you venting yourself. i always have tomorrow or the day after i'll sit down and think and i'll figure out what i want to do with. after 4 years of touring us tour suddenly decided to disband the tattoo electronical. danielle found out by chance while listening to a radio interview with his father.
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it was the worst thing i'd ever heard i mean my not usually that evening my father came round for dinner. i was exhausted my projects weren't working out and playing with my father was the best thing i had. i looked at him and said. you realize you're going backwards it was the worst thing i could think of. he said who do you think you are. i didn't see my father for 10 years after that so you'll see below me. the good. book a duty to tell all book in his simple model because he. is.
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certainly what you show that i want to do it really should be with. you that you. see here the way to. see it out we're all on the bus it. was you know we you know we just you will get a little of the nobles. in 1974 deanna was denounced and became the target of the argentine anticommunist alliance a far right death squad she was forced into exile and settled in mexico with her partner the nephew of us who scene of the floor a founder of the mothers of plaster de mayo a group who campaigned for the disappeared. once she said to me if we were at war and you were on the other side i choose. you i said your
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current state of where seriously i'd shoot you. that was in 1970 s. you know at that time vienna had taken on a norm to get elsa no one knew where she was later we found out she was in exile but we didn't get to say goodbye. on march 24th one. 176 another military coup swept argentina the dictatorship that assumed control opened what became the most brutal chapter in the country's history a facade of normality was maintained which even used the 1978 world cup as a smokescreen. the regime kidnapped tortured murdered and systematically disappeared thousands of citizens. while deanna p.s. ola lived in exile in mexico her father and some other artists attended a dinner hosted by general vidalia leader of the military junta it took deanna years to forgive her father.
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practices so i think the rhythm is the only constant in my music. everything else is new evolving. it's contemporary it's now yes tango is still in there but it's another world it's the world of a story piazza ola focus on the. roster divided his time between france and argentina. he found love again with
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laura escalade whom he married in 1980 after a long engagement. for you may have been a very quiet period of my life very happy very peaceful. you know what a strange feeling to be at rest and i needed those years of rest my new gun would be down to give me by spent last summer and pointed at a story and you're a guy. those 3 months in 10791980 renewed me. as a result of my music is not agitated or aggressive anymore it's not as biting and it's very tender romantic and different to. deal with it and of course. the body can go there as i go and. just to get into the middle of the you know what it does not that. good at all you know if you're able to put up with.
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that because of the late question little girls that for the whole day with you would on the i think kind of get. your voice becoming your vision of the guns and that's you know getting the baby is on the way because it's full of what they perceive to be because. if you don't hear what out of the theater they look at that because our little bit of and it was a big table ago. it is a little yes and when you're only one of the family because they meet. on june 11th 1983 us to pierce all of finally achieved his dream he performed his music on the stage of the theatrical own with the symphony orchestra. at 62 he had finally received recognition in the claim that home in argentina.
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i bumped into my father again in 1909 he stopped by to say hello he blew the horn and he's my savings how are you dad it was a rather chilly encounter it's been ages since we've seen each other he said i'm important that's why how are you how was put to death. something strange happened i couldn't compose for the 1st time in my life i sat at the piano and compose nothing . you could tell he was worried but he went on tour anyway and that damned 5th the bogus his days of playing and shock fishing and. because he would own. on august 5th 1990 while on tour in paris suffered a stroke. several days later he was transported to point a side ace in a coma. but. my father was in intensive care once deanna
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and i had calmed down a man stopped me and said are you done come with me and i'll tell you a secret. i thought oh no sit down please this comes from a trusted source your father signed a pact with the devil in exchange for success he agreed to a terrible death. my father always said paralysis is the worst thing that could happen to me but paralyzed he was and i never saw that man again. on july 4th 19022 years after the stroke solo died in buenos aires. i don't i'm going to look it. up if i think i'm learning. several minto's remain from his days in new york
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