2024-04-19 03:01:00
Astor Piazzolla sounds always and everywhere. His music has been around for decades. emblem from Buenos Aires that travels the world, the watchword of a city refounded by the avant-garde imagery of its bandoneon and a sound that opens your senses to what is always returning. On Friday the 19th at 9 p.m. in the Belgrano Auditorium (Virrey Loreto and Cabildo), The tribute to the great Argentine musician will be symphonic and will be in charge of the Andrés Robles orchestra, with the participation of the singer Diana Maria. Themes with sheet metal classics will articulate a program that will alternate the instrumentals “Libertango”, “Fuga y Misterio” and the essential “Adiós Nonino”, among others, with songs like “Balada para mi muerte”, “Balada para un loco”, “Oblivion” and “Chiquilín of Bachin.
“It was precisely with ‘Chiquilín de Bachín’ that I entered Piazzolla’s universe,” Diana María tells Page 12. The singer goes back to the times of Michelangelo, in the ’70s, when her routines included the theme of Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer. “I remember that slides were projected on the brick wall at the back of the stage, while singing. Panchito Nolé’s orchestra accompanied me,” he says. “Since then I feel emotionally close to Piazzolla’s music, particularly when addressing Ferrer’s poetry. Those crazy, inspired and surreal lyrics that travel through the melodic nuances of genius,” he continues.
This symphonic tribute to Piazzolla arose from the initiative of Jorge Rodríguez, “Monitor”, a producer linked to rock, “but like all of us, loves Piazzolla’s music and is committed to it,” says Diana María. “It makes me very happy that the production has thought of me for this tribute, because in addition to giving me the possibility of reconnecting with the music of an admired and fundamental artist, it helps me to find my voice again, I was a little lost after the pandemic. With the sadness of those days, I had been left without the necessary vibration and fiber and this opportunity gave me back the vitality always. Piazzolla sounds and heals, “It mobilizes you and moves you,” says the singer, who also knew how to include works by the great bandoneon player in her albums.
“I recorded ‘Milonga sin Palabras’ from Piazzolla, a beautiful song. Was Laura Escalada the one who, in a gesture of great generosity, gave me the unpublished manuscript for me to sing it. It is a work that he wrote for her and that I had the immense fortune to premiere in the Golden Hall of the Teatro Colón and then include it on my album Now I sing the tango”, says Diana María. “Piazzolla is Buenos Aires, Just listen to a few bars of his music and the Buenos Aires paintings, the noise of the traffic, the stress of the city appear. But also the calm, the melancholy. After years of singing it, it continues to transform me, it tests me,” the singer continues and concludes: “And it brings back memories of places, events, lived experiences and the memory of people who are no longer here. I feel that at this point, in maturity, with so many years of career, with so much stage, Piazzolla’s music suits me very well”.