ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires radio station begins broadcasting tango as it is performed live in the station studio before an audience.

Record ID: 860872

  • Title: ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires radio station begins broadcasting tango as it is performed live in the station studio before an audience.
  • Date: 7th November 2003
  • Summary: (L!2) BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (RECENT) (REUTERS) PHOTOGRAPHS OF TANGO SINGERS CARLOS GARDEL AND TITA MERELLO ON WALL PAN/SV OF RAMIRO GALLO AND HIS TANGO ORCHESTRA PERFORMING, AUDIENCE LISTENING (2 SHOTS) SV/SLV VARIOUS OF TECHNICIANS RECORDING AND MUSICIANS PLAYING (5 SHOTS)
  • Embargoed: 22nd November 2003 12:00
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  • Location: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
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  • Country: Argentina
  • Topics: Communications,Entertainment,General
  • Reuters ID: LVA5HW7769DFJMH9KTIZSWYRP9FL
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  • Story Text: Radio station begins broadcasting tango as it is performed live in the station studio before an audience.
    Large photos of tango greats Carlos Gardel and Tita Merello grace the walls of a local Buenos Aires radio station, while their music fills the station's studio during one of its new and popular broadcasts of a live tango performance..
    The live broadcast is a tradition that harkens back to the 1940's - a time seen by many as the Golden Age of radio and of tango. Back then, top tango singers and tango orchestras performed every week in this same studio before an audience of some 150 people. At the same time, the performance was broadcast to listeners.
    But tango lost some of its popularity in ensuing decades and the live broadcasts stopped.
    Today, however, tango is undergoing a renaissance in Argentina, and the weekly live radio performances have returned.
    Many Argentines are delighted.
    "It is part of our country, it is part of our people, it is part of our history, it is part of us," said one audience member.
    "I think it is fantastic that the young people have an inclination towards tango. That they dance it, that they get enthusiastic about it, that they create it," said tango fan Viviana Navarro.
    The station's Artistic Director Jorge Waisburd, said that although he did not initially set out to revive the golden era of tango, much of the magic seems to have returned.
    "Tango will transcend [the generations] as long as there are new musicians and new audiences. This was very difficult to sustain a few years ago when young people did not look to tango and the older people were dying," he explained.
    New venues for tango in Argentina also include a new television station, 50 radio stations, dozens of magazines, and hundreds of new internet sites.
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