BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA...A UNIQUE METROPOLIS
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Tomas San Jose
Previous Nationality: Spain.
Attended Christian Brothers College in Memphis, Tn.- Met
and married a beautiful Southern Belle in 1952. Still together. Drafted during the Korean War; active duty with 1st Cav.Div. earning my U.S. Citizenship.Have a Memphis born daughter,a great son-in-law and two granddauhters, our pride and joy. Living in a small town just north of Memphis -
Retired - we are enjoying the peace, quiet, and good neighbors we are lucky to have. By Tomas San Jose
Published on 10/28/2008
Buenos Aires: its people, incredibly good steaks and wine, and the Tango; an Argentinian contribution to the world's
music spectrum. The death of Tango's greatest singer/composer; Carlos Gardel..Still remembered and loved..
music spectrum. The death of Tango's greatest singer/composer; Carlos Gardel..Still remembered and loved..
BUENOS AIRES: TANGO, PEOPLE, WINES AND STEAKS
On the Rio de La Plata, an estuary formed by the joining of the Parana and Uruguay Rivers, Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina.
Formed by Buenos Aires proper, and greater Buenos Aires with its 19 Suburbs, has a population of over 13 million of highly homogeneous people, in its ethnic and
racial composition. Enormous quantities of immigrants - mainly from Spain and Italy - settled in Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th
century; their descendants and others from different European ancestry, as well as Arabs, Jews, Orientals and "Mestizos" (bi-racial), are the people of Buenos Aires.- Its temperate climate temperatures, change from highs of about 85F. in the summer to lows of 45F in the winter. (seasons are reversed from North America's). It has a very active night-life and many exceptionally good restaurants, where the Steaks are some of the best in the world. Argentina's beef is exported, as a very high demand, and quality product. One of those steaks with a bottle of a great Argentina's wine, makes an unforgettable dinner.
The Tango is Argentina's and specially Buenos Aires most popular and loved music. Its origin, is alleged,to be an amalgamation of Spain's Tango Andaluz, or Flamenco, with the Milonga - Argentina's country music.
Today, "Milonga" has several meanings: a music genre, a place where tango is danced, e.g. a Club, or an event, and also the original meaning from a word of African origin "Mulonga", that means "words" or a long story. Persons that often attend Milongas to dance are called "Milongueros", a word often used together
with words from the Lunfardo language, or dialect, in Tango lyrics.- Lunfardo first appeared in Buenos Aires around the 1880's, and is a language created by thieves and criminals to speak among themselves; unintelligible to the Police and intended victims. Its terminology was widely spread by the theater and specially by tango lyrics, eventually becoming a part of the every day vocabulary in Buenos Aires. Some of the Lunfardo words used in tango lyrics: "Pebeta" (Girl), "Mina" (Woman), "Rajar" (To go, to leave) and many, many others.
The Tango has been an important contribution to the world's music spectrum; many becoming world famous like El Choclo, Por Una Cabeza; which you may remember from the dancing scene of the blind colonel - Al Paccino - if you saw the motion picture "Scent of a Woman"; La Cumparsita, and many others.
It's most famous interpreter: Carlos Gardel (11 December 1887 - 24 June 1935) He is commonly referred to as "Carlitos", the "King of Tango", and ironically "El Mudo" (The Mute) The musicality of Gardel's baritone voice, and the dramatic phrasing of his lyrics, made miniature masterpieces of his hundreds
of tango recordings. As a composer, he wrote many of the tangos he sang, also writing the lyrics.- For many, Gardel embodies the soul of the tango style that originated in the barrios of Buenos Aires and Montevideo at the end of the 19th century.
He began his singing career in bars and private parties, and when he started recording, his fame and fans increased incredibly. Made personal appearances in Paris. New York, Barcelona and Madrid; and also starred in several films.
In 1915 Carlos Gardel was supposedly shot and wounded by Che Guevara's father, Ernesto Guevara Lynch, as a result of a bar brawl in the Palais de Glace in the
Recoleta district of Buenos Aires.
He died at the height of his fame in 1935, on an airplane crash in Medellin, Colombia. Several of his guitarists and some business associates and friends, died as well.- Millions of his fans throughout Latin America went into mourning and thousands came to pay their respects as his body was taken from Colombia through New York and Rio de Janeiro. Hordes rendered homage during the two days he lay in state in Montevideo, the city where his mother lived at the time.
Carlos Gardel is still revered from Tokyo to Buenos Aires. The fingers of his tuxedo clad statue statue on his tomb, nearly always hold a lit cigarette left by an admirer.
Tango: bewitching music...and a very sexy dance.- Learn it! Its fun!
Formed by Buenos Aires proper, and greater Buenos Aires with its 19 Suburbs, has a population of over 13 million of highly homogeneous people, in its ethnic and
racial composition. Enormous quantities of immigrants - mainly from Spain and Italy - settled in Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th
century; their descendants and others from different European ancestry, as well as Arabs, Jews, Orientals and "Mestizos" (bi-racial), are the people of Buenos Aires.- Its temperate climate temperatures, change from highs of about 85F. in the summer to lows of 45F in the winter. (seasons are reversed from North America's). It has a very active night-life and many exceptionally good restaurants, where the Steaks are some of the best in the world. Argentina's beef is exported, as a very high demand, and quality product. One of those steaks with a bottle of a great Argentina's wine, makes an unforgettable dinner.
The Tango is Argentina's and specially Buenos Aires most popular and loved music. Its origin, is alleged,to be an amalgamation of Spain's Tango Andaluz, or Flamenco, with the Milonga - Argentina's country music.
Today, "Milonga" has several meanings: a music genre, a place where tango is danced, e.g. a Club, or an event, and also the original meaning from a word of African origin "Mulonga", that means "words" or a long story. Persons that often attend Milongas to dance are called "Milongueros", a word often used together
with words from the Lunfardo language, or dialect, in Tango lyrics.- Lunfardo first appeared in Buenos Aires around the 1880's, and is a language created by thieves and criminals to speak among themselves; unintelligible to the Police and intended victims. Its terminology was widely spread by the theater and specially by tango lyrics, eventually becoming a part of the every day vocabulary in Buenos Aires. Some of the Lunfardo words used in tango lyrics: "Pebeta" (Girl), "Mina" (Woman), "Rajar" (To go, to leave) and many, many others.
The Tango has been an important contribution to the world's music spectrum; many becoming world famous like El Choclo, Por Una Cabeza; which you may remember from the dancing scene of the blind colonel - Al Paccino - if you saw the motion picture "Scent of a Woman"; La Cumparsita, and many others.
It's most famous interpreter: Carlos Gardel (11 December 1887 - 24 June 1935) He is commonly referred to as "Carlitos", the "King of Tango", and ironically "El Mudo" (The Mute) The musicality of Gardel's baritone voice, and the dramatic phrasing of his lyrics, made miniature masterpieces of his hundreds
of tango recordings. As a composer, he wrote many of the tangos he sang, also writing the lyrics.- For many, Gardel embodies the soul of the tango style that originated in the barrios of Buenos Aires and Montevideo at the end of the 19th century.
He began his singing career in bars and private parties, and when he started recording, his fame and fans increased incredibly. Made personal appearances in Paris. New York, Barcelona and Madrid; and also starred in several films.
In 1915 Carlos Gardel was supposedly shot and wounded by Che Guevara's father, Ernesto Guevara Lynch, as a result of a bar brawl in the Palais de Glace in the
Recoleta district of Buenos Aires.
He died at the height of his fame in 1935, on an airplane crash in Medellin, Colombia. Several of his guitarists and some business associates and friends, died as well.- Millions of his fans throughout Latin America went into mourning and thousands came to pay their respects as his body was taken from Colombia through New York and Rio de Janeiro. Hordes rendered homage during the two days he lay in state in Montevideo, the city where his mother lived at the time.
Carlos Gardel is still revered from Tokyo to Buenos Aires. The fingers of his tuxedo clad statue statue on his tomb, nearly always hold a lit cigarette left by an admirer.
Tango: bewitching music...and a very sexy dance.- Learn it! Its fun!