
-- the five-hour, 12-band showcase of world music on Sunday night at Webster Hall -- was the one that traveled lightest: Lo Còr de la Plana, from Marseilles, France. It was six male singers, four of whom also played hand drums and tambourine. They sang in a disappearing language, Occitan, and in an old style that once was church music. They...

''She has that thing that all Latin American ballerinas have,'' the Russian ballerina Alexandra Danilova is reputed to have said of a dancer to a critic friend. ''Hmm, I can't think of the word ...'' The critic suggested, ''Temperament?'' Danilova replied at once: ''No. Bitchiness.'' I wish ''Tango Fire,'' the new production from the Buenos Aires...

IT was past 2 o'clock one recent morning when the electronica duo the Pinker Tones took the stage in Arbúcies, a town about an hour's drive northeast of here. Wearing white-framed sunglasses, blazers and earphones, Mister Furia and Professor Manso, joined by a frequent guest, DJ Niño, stood behind tables laden with mixers, turntables, soundboards...
Astor Piazzolla (11. marts 1921 - 4. juli 1992) var en argentinsk komponist og orkesterleder.
Som leder af egne ensembler gjorde han tangoen til en koncertmusik, som vandt udbredt anerkendelse såvel i Argentina som internationalt. Har komponeret over 400 tangoer, balletter, symfonier og kammermusik samt en strygekvartet. Han spillede selv på bandoneón.