Archive for November, 2011

1993, November 30 – PREMIERE, “SCHINDLER’S LIST”

The classic tango “Por Una Cabeza” written by Carlos Gardel in 1935, is playing as Oskar Shindler is entering the night club to meet all the Nazi officials…”Schindler’s List” is a film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman, a greedy war profiteer, the unlikeliest of all role models who then employs his skills and spends vast sums of his [ READ MORE ]

1869, November 29 – BIRTH OF JACOB “THUNE” GADE

Composer, Violinist (Sagittarius) – his “Tango Jalousie” is the most recorded and best know tango in history and was immensely popular even in Argentina where people would have been quite surprised to find out that it had been composed by some one from Denmark…Gade recalled the day, as he was having his morning coffee, he opened [ READ MORE ]

1920, November 28 – BIRTH OF JUAN SANCHEZ GORIO

Composer, Leader, Bandoneonist (Sagittarius) – curiously he had composed “Gitana Rusa” ten years earlier in his struggling years and it had been first recorded by Osvaldo Fresedo but when he recorded it with his own orchestra in 1957 it was a major hit…Juan Sanchez Gorio was born in Spain to a poor family which moved to San Nicolas just [ READ MORE ]

1952, November 27 – 1st RECORDED, “RODANDO TU ESQUINA”

Composed and sung by Charlo, the lyrics of “Rodando Tu Esquina“ say, ” my passion for her is devouring me and I must go out and look for her…to forgive her…I don’t care what people will say, people will talk anyway…I think of her continuously, I can’t get her out of my mind, “….this was a major hit for [ READ MORE ]

1888, November 26 – BIRTH OF FRANCISCO CANARO

Composer, Leader, Violinist (Sagittarius) – born into extreme poverty in the city of San Jose de Mayo, Uruguay he would grow to become the richest man in tango history so much so that a popular saying arose “he has more money than Canaro”…he left school very early, he had no choice, he had to work; his parents, [ READ MORE ]

1964, November 25 – JULIO SOSA DIES IN CAR WRECK !

Singer (born February 2, 1926, Aquarius) – his love of fast cars cost him his life, he was 38 years old and at the pinnacle of his career…awaiting him were plans for other films, tours of europe and south america; he was very much in love with a new girlfriend…in the 60s he was the only [ READ MORE ]

1908, November 24 – BIRTH OF LIBERTAD LAMARQUE

Singer (Sagittarius) – by the age of 18 she was already a professional actress on radio and theater, had made her first recording, had married, given birth to a daughter and was in the middle of a difficult divorce;…she was to have a long, highly successful career becoming the first female super star of tango and [ READ MORE ]

2008.November 22 – PREMIERE OF “TANGO ADAMOR”

Stage Show – Premiering at the Wilshire Theater in Beverly Hills, the inspiration for Tango Adamor came from an autistic boy named Adam and through a fairy tale,“Dance into Unity Through the Heart of Tango” written by Elena Alexandra and Svetlana David, it explores how Adam can be helped to emerge to the light of communication through the soul of Tango…in the story, two [ READ MORE ]

1907, November 21 – LUIS TEISSEIRE WEDS MISS GIANELLI

Poet, Composer, Flutist (birth 24 October 1883, Scorpio) – returning home late at night from gigs at cheap cafes where he played, he would always buy a yellow magnolia for his wife Elvira Gianelli which he would ceremoniously place in her hand when she joyously greeted him at the door…his devotion  to his family was total; [ READ MORE ]

1942, November 20 – PREMIERE OF “LA GUERRA GAUCHA”

Film – the film’s budget was so constrained that in one scene, director Lucas Demare had to play a Spanish soldier who gets hit by a lance, however the lance hit him so hard that for a moment they feared that he had actually been killed…the film however turned out to be a great success; for its time [ READ MORE ]

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