Lidia and Hector Legrand If you are interested in learning more about Argentine Tango and Argentine Tango events in SaddleBrooke, please visit our website http://tangoargentino.sharepoint.com where you can also read Parts 1 through 17 of this series. Jazz and Argentine Tango share similar origins, history and characteristics. Both were born practically at the same time;…
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Clubs & Classes, December 2014
Part 17: Origins of Argentine Tango Dancing
Lidia and Hector Legrand If you are interested in learning more about Argentine Tango and Argentine Tango events in SaddleBrooke, please visit our website http://tangoargentino.sharepoint.com where you can also read Parts 1 through 16 of this series. From the 1870s to the 1910s tough times in European countries were the origins of emigration to mainly…
Clubs & Classes, October 2014
A few theories about the origins of the Argentine Tango
Lidia and Hector Legrand If you are interested in learning more about Argentine Tango and Argentine Tango events in SaddleBrooke, please visit our website http://tangoargentino.sharepoint.com where you can also read Parts 1 through 15 of this series. Historians as well as musicologists have arrived at different conclusions (sometimes these conclusions complement one another) about the…
Clubs & Classes, September 2014
Dance the Argentine Tango
Sherry Ginsberg Join us at an Argentine Tango Dance, a Milonga, to be held at the Oracle Inn Steakhouse and Lounge on Tuesday, October 14, 2014, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Discover the secrets of this captivating social dance. Our DJs, Hector and Lidia Legrand, Argentinean born U.S. citizens and founders of the SaddleBrooke Argentine…
Clubs & Classes, September 2014
Part 15 – History of Argentine Tango
Lidia and Hector Legrand If you are interested in learning more about Argentine Tango and Argentine Tango events in SaddleBrooke, please visit our website http://tangoargentino.sharepoint.com where you can also read Parts 1 through 14 of this series. On September 30, 2009, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization), an organization within the United Nations,…
June 2014
Argentine Tango series part 12
Lidia and Hector Legrand As we mentioned in part three of this series, Argentine Tango was born in the late nineteenth century on the river shores of Buenos Aires, densely populated by massive waves of immigrants from Europe and similar in many ways to the immigration we experienced here in the United States during those…
May 2014
Part II: Argentine Tango: who was Carlos Gardel?
Lidia and Hector Legrand Imagine an American crooner with the sum of the popularity of Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra all combined into one. That virtual American crooner would be as popular as Carlos Gardel is for Argentine Tango lovers all over the world. Several countries have claimed him as…