"Trini y Sean \(PATangoS\)" <[email protected]> asks: > When the musicians have been playing for dancers, how have they've > been arranging their music? In tandas or have they've been mixing it > up?
If you're referring to musicians at the festival, as you seem to be, I will re-emphasize that musicians at the festivals have generally NOT been playing for dancers at all (other than at the opening milonga), nor have been expected to do so. So no, the concept of tandas was largely irrelevant for 90% of the live music being played at the festival. The Grand Opening milonga did feature Los Reyes del Tango. I wasn't there, so I don't know what they played there, but Los Reyes usually does not play in tandas, so I'd guess they didn't at the festival. Sexteto Milonguero will be playing at the Closing Milonga on Sunday afternoon, and they sometimes do play vaguely in tandas at regular milongas, but since there will be a larger listening crowd than a dancing crowd, I'm not sure what they will do there. There are two Tango worlds in Buenos Aires--that of the music and that of the dance (and they seem to overlap nowadays only slightly). Most tourist (including those who come to dance Tango) completely miss the first, other than what they might hear at a Tango show or at a milonga that features live music, but this barely scratches the surface. A lot of it does seem to be underground, with no formal mechanism for disseminating information. One of the great things about this festival is that it brought the two worlds together, or at least under one roof, so that those mostly on one side could get visibility into the other. If you're referring to Tango orchestras in general in Buenos Aires, mostly they do not play in tandas at all, except to some extent for the few orchestras that have one or more social Tango dancers among the musicians (e.g., Sexteto Milonguero and Orquesta Mariano Bujacich, among others). Generally then, an announcement of the previous or following tanda takes the place of a cortina. Shahrukh _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
