Like American jazz, Argentine tango music was born of multicultural interaction. Africans, Europeans and South Americans, thrown together during Argentina’s economic expansion at the turn of the 20th ...

“Mi Buenos Aires Querido,” by Carlos Gardel: “Carlos Gardel is the father of tango, the original, the archetype, the éminence grise. There would be no tango without him. He was killed in an airplane ...

Horacio Salgán, an Argentine tango composer and pianist who helped broaden the vocabulary of his musical form and became one of the genre’s most influential and revered maestros, died Aug. 19 in ...

Last night, a group of musicians brought a slice of South America to New Haven with a set of works by Argentina’s most celebrated composers from the last century. The Yale School of Music presented ...

PRINCETON, New Jersey -- The romantic beats of tango have made their way from the streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina to Princeton, New Jersey. "Argentine tango has music that is very passionate and ...

Celebrating the rebellious tangos of Astor Piazzolla through dance and live music, choreographer and international tango superstar German Cornejo brings "Tango After Dark" to the Baum Walker stage at ...

Carlos Gardel was one of tango’s — and Argentina’s — great heroes and superstars. The French-Argentine singer, songwriter and composer wrote and recorded hundreds of classic tangos, many with his ...

The Jazz Kitchen will host an extraordinary concert this Sunday, October 15, when a pair of virtuoso pianists join forces for a celebration of contemporary Argentine tango music. The program is part ...

Pablo Ziegler performs tonight (April 29) at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. Tonight (April 29) the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts goes “beyond tango” to the tango without the ...

The Lord of the Strings concert series takes the stage for Opus 7 of 12, Dancing to the Strings — a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between master violinist Wai Mizutani, pianist Xiao-Long Chen and ...

Ástor Piazzolla, the visionary Argentinian composer, band leader and bandoneon virtuoso who created the revolutionary nuevo tango style in the 1950s, is being celebrated around the world today, March ...