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and to integrate the region with the rest of the country critics say the move is fun democratic and could spark on rust but the government in delhi says it is a long overdue step. this is deja vu news live from berlin i'm brian thomas from the entire team thanks so much for being with us and regina will be joining you at the top of the hour with the very latest on what's happening in kashmir right now with news from delhi thanks very much. it was a season of high pitched soccer action as it winds down the next exciting event is right around the corner. the german bundesliga is heating up and as always we are there to keep you updated with the latest on kick off. putting to sleep the soccer
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starting august 16th on each of the. last of his 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.
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they they mean of something 1955 something new appeared tango intended for listening. this was a groundbreaking development it was tango that was no longer only for dancing that was completely new. is innovative tango which enraged traditionalists in his day drew inspiration from jazz klezmer music stravinsky and bartok p.s. solo went on to become one of the leading composers of the 20th century in 1960 i discovered each radio speaking about me one called me assassin generated the other one murder i was having fun i was in the media they made me popular. i remember the last text you have been motorcyclists i called taxi anyone who saw my face. shot and when he's insulted me and he called me communist. he went away
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i just didn't. like the dogs when he looked into his like that so what did he do this to me i didn't do nothing i only change the tangle that's all i. can see and he. isn't even if it's your now or him. whereas you know. you're a poor. little piece of the puzzle. but at the bottom of. it but i believe this is. your son
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and his 2 children deanna and danielle had a complex relationship marked by periods of closeness and times of silence even estrangement. deanna pierce will 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. if you. plan to write about asteroid. she mentioned it to him my father's 1st reaction was you know biographies are about the dead not the living if you're still alive. daniel p.s. solo who is also a musician is now the custodian of his father's legacy. danielle's relationship with faster was not always easy times of deep affinity and musical
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collaboration alternated with long periods of separation. but always united the father and son was a love of fishing. the vehicle shop becoming my father and i went shock machine together only once 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. 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 limp he would have attacked them. i 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
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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 to be thin to decided not to have any more children fearing they might be born with a similar disability no nina and his parents were called pampered their only child . after the last surgery the family decided to start a new life in new york. i lived in exile in mexico for 9 years. my father who had just given 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 yet. they say. if
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your soul is settled in a poor district of new york as immigrants their lives were difficult and demanded many sacrifices. noni 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 bathtub which they delivered by side car. pastor p. a soul absorbed the vibrancy of the city. by
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the roots my father happened upon the instrument at a pawn broker in new york's jewish quarter. he bought the band and brought it home for me. i thought he brought me a fan. i didn't know what it was. 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. ears frozen sometimes crying in pain he took me to the bronx to study with teddy to chew 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
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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 a film no nino an ardent admirer of tango wanted to give him a gift a wooden statue he carved himself. was intrusted with the delivery when gardell heard a store play he invited him to appear in the film. proper compliment for me to very good friday morning a great deal more like. the
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encounter with carville helped shape asterisk future. all i can tell you is we were very close. to weeks before god 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. with. the plane on which carlos codell was travelling crashed in colombia. in 1936 overcome by homesickness the p.a soul is returned to argentina still was torn away from the creative energy of bjork. in murder plot to us to receive the
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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 staring. 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. 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 bunn dani young
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players. they called him a tenderfoot. i entered the world of gigolos and prostitutes a world of drugs drunks and gamblers. a world apart on which i participated and as a member of an orchestra. there were 13 musicians in the orchestra 12 lived with a woman if no nino heard i was living with a woman he'd have killed me. you see. in 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
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with the noted argentine composer in the sierra. beautiful i had a way about it it was like speaking to a cleric. but i studied hard and was happy. i went to concerts at the tatra cologne to rehearsals analyzed works records i started to listen and that sparked a change in me. in 1902 us to marry didi wolf did he was studying painting and like to sing they shared a deep fund. she poured herself into our stories budding musical career. when he set for poems by jorge luis for his to music for an album to be performed by star singer edmundo rivero he asked did it to sing on the demo and brought the sample to bogus.
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on the day of the recording it moved to revere or asked for his if he liked the result bush told him he preferred the sample version the one sung by the young woman. must appear solo became known as the tango revolutionary who spoke to listeners in an entirely new language of music pure soul of broke with traditional tango melodies and rhythms and with the way the bun dony on was played. what is less well known is that in the 1940 s.
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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 $100.00 notes auster wrote struck out 20 so i asked or decided to quit. when his son daniel was born in 1945 aster 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 1946 he founded the orchestra. jan based on new year's and i know better than me one of the n.s.a. program will only be me with any of the laws in the middle of the it appears that without. going to a single body of my daddy's to back up when you're with the noumenal whitest book
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we will see another one i was because i got it with you michael because of a global voices or wish we had for really was the little guy meet with that one all over the top. of me with your i used. to be a soldier had made great strides during his studies he ventured a big decision he would give up the money and he decided to stop performing in nightclubs and leave tango behind instead he would focus on composing classical symphonies. in 1953 astor one the father incidence the prize for his symphony of buenos aires which came with a stipend to study orchestration in paris. eat miss i took the bandoneon with me just in case. over the years the best composers went to paris to study would not be a blog. she was like a 2nd mother to me. she wanted to know how i live my life if i was
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a good person so. are you married of course i have 2 children she told me that's good. i studied every day. she was a torturer. digital are you going to she read my symphonies course she said it's well written but where. i want to know what does p.s. ola do who is. in the end i told her i played the bandoneon she had known. that's the only instrument that paul hindemith couldn't play. he said do you like it i love it she made me play tango.
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took my 2 hands is this is that b.s. all. she heard my style the harmonies and the rhythm. she didn't hear the cha cha cha the chim whom common to tango she heard a new tango. that opened my eyes i picked up my benoni and never put it down again years later but it was. in paris suster was steeped in creative ferment he works day and night composed many tangos and recorded an album with the paris opera orchestra. armed with all this new music us to return to when aside. 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
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on september 16th 1955 president one peron 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. take it or don't fell and tango along with him so 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 but at that moment i was born not causal.
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let's say near us to solo once again brought together the best tango musicians and founded the upset to buenos aires. controversy erupted in his tangled way both quickly met with fierce resistance. they're. going. to. be able to say and i want america back and they'll pay for me by coming on here. i'm sure you know better i think i mean. i don't know. what i'm. doing i'm not buying it nor that you don't want to know that. don't you got anything that i have. and i'm not.
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we often had to play for free no one wanted to listen to the ensemble or i was very discouraged and when i get discouraged i leave my boy. he didn't give any morning i mean. we all make the same sudden foolish decisions like my grandfather dad moved to new york just like neal i was studying piano with monta branch piano playing the chopin preludes. i played incredibly well. my father said you're going to study at juilliard school of music you judy art like glenn gould and the other great artists. things turned sour in new york but they didn't let on so d.n.r.
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and i wouldn't. things went badly really badly i even stole hams from the market i didn't have a dime one day i took one of my records to a studio c.b.s. . never forgive what they said it's very beautiful but in this country it's not what you know but who you know that counts was. driven by financial difficulties us to resolve to do what he had always rejected to go on tour and play traditional tango accompaniments 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 and. he decided to play anyway.
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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 a. little. bit .
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of the faith of the east and the new guinea but a little bit you know the but. penniless the p.s.l. is decided to return to buenos aires. astor was able to sell the us no new no earning just enough to buy 4 tickets on a freighter. mr
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p. a solo brought back many new compositions with him from new york but also a deep frustration in when a site as he founded the quintet which once again raw. argentina's music scene. but if you don't believe we present to you the most modern and integrative expression of tango a style that has propelled the aren't abreast r.p.o. zone into the center of the world's music making.
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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. it as it was a new form of music especially popular with bands of jazz with night outs who went out to listen and enthusiastic into another.
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store indeed his relationship fell into a silent crisis. not that i knew my sister and i we all did he get there until 19650966. my father left and it destroyed our family. hello who is their 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 mountain and florida. i stood there like an idiot because i never imagined something like that could ever happen you know we had a wonderful family. with us are gone did they sank into depression. several months later danielle left home too and then deanna left for northwest
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argentina to work with the country's poorest. did was left alone. would be 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. i see the kind of. don't forget it takes more courage to leave than it does to stay. astore ended a divorced in 1966. and a. book.
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that. i'm going to ask you straight are you bitter you know it absolutely 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 to morrow in your own country you were criticized rejected but you don't hold the esteem you deserve . i had opportunities to do wonderful things. i received proposals from france to work with george most duckie from italy to work with mills and i'll be any more projects than i could have imagined.
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here i have nothing there i have everything. 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. us to his new country and was brimming with new ideas the italians liked his music
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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 mystic keith john merrow. marco beloki rostropovich caetano veloso and gerry mulligan. in 1975 influenced by free jazz bands formed the arctic to electronical and
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recruited his son daniel they performed across europe. for pick i'm happy. people solomon applaud me understand me they get the message. sure isn't easy because i change constantly. everywhere you go it's my father returned one morning in march 78. after a long stay in europe mr appears all is back in argentina. are you here to stay. for the moment yes are you venting yourself. i always have tomorrow
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or the day after i'll sit down and think and i'll figure out what i want to do. after 4 years of touring us tour suddenly decided to disband to electronical. danielle found out by chance while listening to a radio interview with his father. 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
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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 will be so your symbol of me. because. he took a little to no book in his simple almost obvious to the. day he. was certain he was you show that i wonder if there was a date with you that you. don't see yet or the way to. see it when we know what i wanted to. know and it was you know it you know we just
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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 you see in of the floor a founder of the mothers of plus today mio 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 said your currency 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 you know later we found out she was in exile but we didn't get to say goodbye. on march 24th one. 176 and other military coup swept argentina the dictatorship that assumed control
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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 i 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 videla leader of the military junta it took deanna years to forgive her father.
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your practice is sort of up and 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 that you know it's the world of astarte piazza ola focused on the. master divided his time between france and argentina. he found love again with laura escalade whom he married in 1980 after a long engagement. for you i'm in a very quiet period of my life very happy very peaceful.
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what a strange feeling to be at rest and i needed those years of rest i would get out of it by spent last summer and pointed at a story and you're a guy. those 3 months in 19791980 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 in the course of. oh you've got to stay outta there. just to the left so you know what you're not a. good boy and you know if you're already you don't put. because of the label best to label the earth to the political if you would on the i think kind of. made your point because he's on the guns and that's you know given the people he is on boy is that because of what they perceive bill because. it is
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that people want out of the day of the book and therefore because of the me out of the course of their favorite political news because. that money only $1.00 of the family will be cast and he'd. run june 11th 1983 us to solo finally achieved his dream he performed his music on the stage of the theatrical own with a symphony orchestra. at $62.00 he had finally received recognition in the claim at home in argentina. for me to know my. mama but he. may know if she and bill search in 1982 he had a heart operation. the doctor told him forget the stage focus i'm composing
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it will do you good but it was impossible for him he loved performing on stage. i bumped into my father again in 1989 he stopped by to say hello he blew the horn and he must say how are you that 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 long how was pointed out. something strange happened i
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couldn't compose for the 1st time in my life i sat at the piano and composed 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 run. on august 5th 1990 while on tour in paris suffered a stroke. several days later he was transported to buenos aires in a coma. but. my father was in intensive care once deanna 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
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happen to me but paralyzed he was and i never saw that man again. on july 4th 19922 years after the stroke died in buenos aires. i don't it i'm done or. thought i think funny. several minto's remain from his days in new york a harmonica. a sketch of him made by diego rivera. and the 1st recording of a bust or playing the bun dony on when he was 9 years old. and
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