Tango News

By Dereck Foster For the Herald Nobody can deny that, on a scale of ten, the figure and voice of Carlos Gardel ranks right up there, near the top.

Fans of the hit show "Dancing with the Stars" know the name Tony Dovolani. NewsCenter 5's Liz Brunner recently traveled to Connecticut for some private dancing lessons with Dovolani, who counts J-Lo among his former students.

When 12-year-old Enzo Perino plays bandoneon, an over-sized accordion that serves as the backbone of tango music, he looks just like his grandfather.

'Kick Up your Heels: Music for the Dance' will be performed at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Community School of Music and Arts' performance space, 330 E. State St., Ithaca.

Today's casual observer might be forgiven for thinking of Astor Piazzolla simply as an avuncular accordion-wielding avatar of Argentine tango traditionalism.

What is it about these Cohens? Minneapolis-born filmmakers Joel and Ethan are acclaimed worldwide for dry humour , sharp irony, shocking visuals and a growing string of top awards.

Dancing in the aisles at the Schermerhorn? It's not out of the question this week as the Nashville Symphony zips through three pieces of Argentinian tango composed by the illustrious Astor Piazzolla.

Once in a great while, talent and determination converge with the right circumstances to produce unique and extraordinary musicians who advance the state of the art.

DANCE Tango Argentino Quinteto del Bailongo, a five-piece Bay Area group, plays the sensual tango music of Argentina on traditional instruments such as the bandoneon as well as piano, bass, violin and guitar.

Next Friday at UB, a unique program will take us back to a time and a place important to 20th century music.

Two of the most celebrated classical-music performers in the nation - cellist Andrew Gabbert and flutist Elizabeth Brightbill - will grace the Francis Auditorium stage at Mary Baldwin College on Sunday in the latest installment of the college's Sunday Recital Series.

November 2, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. - The galleries at DePauw University's Richard E. Peeler Art Center and the DePauw Percussion Studio join in their annual collaboration, Percussion @ Peeler, on Wednesday, November 4 at 6:30 p.m. in the Art Center.

It's the end and the beginning. The end: The Second Annual National Tour of the Sphinx Orchestra and the Harlem Quartet, a tour that has stretched all over the East Coast, including a stop at prestigious Carnegie Hall, comes to an end at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday night.

Donny Osmond, the oldest remaining contestant, shot to the top of the leader board on "Dancing with the Stars" Monday with a convincing Argentine Tango that got a pair of 10s and a 9 - one point shy of perfection, tying the highest score of the season so far.

Lara St. John has a wide-ranging repertoire, from tango to Tchaikovsky. Violinist Lara St.

A change in plans can bring highly satisfying results -- which Robert Moody, the music director of the Winston-Salem Symphony, demonstrated yesterday when he led that group in a program called "The Four Seasons" at the Stevens Center.

An Argentine tango themed on the "Tale of Genji," a Japanese novel written 1,000 years ago, will be performed this month in Tokyo and Nagoya.

Junior Alexi Kenney performed live on the national radio show From the Top . Kenney was one of the four high school students selected to perform.

As the Northwest Sinfonietta played two years' worth of seasons in one night at the Rialto on Saturday, its concertmaster and associate concertmaster shared the solo spotlight, interpreting Vivaldi's and Piazzolla's 'Four Seasons' respectively with grace and passion.

Two cities, two climates, two violinists: In the Northwest Sinfonietta's concerts this weekend, Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' violin concerto tangos with Piazzolla's 'Cuatro Estaciones Portena.' It's a program that swings audiences between two centuries and two hemispheres, painting eight very different seasons of the year through music.