Tango! with Quartet San Francisco and the Peninsula Symphony

Bridging the divide between classical music and the dockside brothels of Buenos Aires, bandoneon player and composer Astor Piazzolla first used popular counter rhythms, sharp whips, and an accordion’s sonority alongside traditional string instruments, to create a new slant on older European musical canons. He and other composers thus redefined Tango as a form of demanding musicality and development, but celebrating its arch sensuality....

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