Argentine Film Score Composers - Astor Piazzolla, Gustavo Santaolalla, Lalo Schifrin, Andres Calamaro, Homero Manzi, Emilio Kauderer, Armando Bo (Paperback)

Chapters: Astor Piazzolla, Gustavo Santaolalla, Lalo Schifrin, Andres Calamaro, Homero Manzi, Emilio Kauderer, Armando Bo, Enrique Santos Discepolo, Francisco Canaro, Alfredo Casero, Pablo Ziegler, Manuel Romero, Raul de La Torre, Lucio Godoy, Juan D'arienzo, Alejandro Gutierrez Del Barrio, Cesar Lerner, Nicolas Sorin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 68. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Astor Pantaleon Piazzolla (March 11, 1921 July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneon player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. A virtuoso bandoneonist, he regularly performed his own compositions with different ensembles. Piazzolla was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina in 1921 to Italian parents, Vicente Nonino Piazzolla and Asunta Manetti. His grandfather, a sailor and fisherman named Pantaleone Piazzolla, had immigrated to Mar del Plata from Trani, a seaport town in the southeastern Italian region of Apulia, at the end of the 19th century. Astor Piazzolla spent most of his childhood with his family in New York City, where he was exposed to both jazz and the music of J. S. Bach at an early age. While there, he acquired fluency in four languages: Spanish, English, French, and Italian. He began to play the bandoneon after his father, nostalgic for his homeland, spotted one in a New York pawn shop. At the age of 13, he met Carlos Gardel, another great figure of tango, who invited the young prodigy to join him on his current tour. Much to his dismay, Piazzolla's father deemed that he was not old enough to go along. While he did play a young paper boy in Gardels movie El dia que me quieras, this early disappointment of being kept from the tour proved to be a blessing in disguise, as ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=44903