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for the party himself it was simply a dream come true. i'm feeling happy you know i'm feeling happy and so happy for my my family my friends and my team is just. an amazing moment in my life you know it's just. now i can take some rest. the potus certainly does sit an incredible fetes from the flying frenchman that could one day so be back at the top of the alphabet morning see this. her 1st day at school in the jungle. her 1st climbing lesson. then the doors grant a moment arrives. to join your regular jane on her journey back to freedom. in our interactive documentary tour in the rankin returns home on the d w dot com
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tanks. mr pistole revolutionized tango in breaking with convention he brought this traditional argentine music out of the dance hall and into concert venues around the world.
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where they mean of something 1955 something new appeared tango intended for listening to. this was a groundbreaking development it was tango that was no longer only for dancing that was completely new. it is innovative tango which enraged traditionalist in his day drew inspiration from jazz klezmer music stravinsky and bartok. solo went on to become one of the leading composers of the 20th century in 960 i discovered each radio speaking about me one called me assassin generated the other one murder i was having fun i was in the way they made me popular. i remember the last text you took in motorcycle i called taxi anyone who saw my face. shot of me he's insulted me and he called me communist. he went away i. like the dogs when i look at their head like that so what did he do this for me i didn't do
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nothing i only changed the tango that's all i. thank. god that. isn't the. only place you are now. where as you know. you're a poor. little piece of what's going on. but it is. illegal in this. your soul and his 2 children deanna and danielle had
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a complex relationship marked by periods of closeness and times of silence even estrangement. deanna pierce will eventually decided to write a biography of her father in preparation she recorded a series of interviews which no one would see for many years. the conversations marked the end of a long period of deep discord deonna died in 2009 several years after the book was published. if you. plan to write about asteroid. she mentioned it to him my father's 1st reaction was you know biographies are about the dead not the living. the life. daniel p.s. solo who is also a musician is now the custodian of his father's legacy. daniele's relationship with pastor was not always easy times of deep affinity and musical collaboration alternated with long periods of separation. but always united the
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father and son was a love of fishing. maybe it was your becoming my father and i went shock machine together only once it was in some glass in 1961. i think what made my father strong was the problem with his leg he tried to conceal it but he couldn't hide it. when you looked at him his left leg was a pillar and his right was scrawny. it always upset him if someone a called him limp he would have attacked them. was born march 11th 1921 in marjah plata argentina. it was a town of fishermen and immigrants that the local elites hope to transform into a luxury a seaside resort. pastor was born with a clubfoot in an attempt to correct it he underwent 7 surgeries the 1st when he was
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just a year old after each surgery he spent many months in a cast. his mother assumed to and his father to be thin to decided not to have any more children fearing they might be born with a similar disability. as his parents were called pampered their only child. after the last surgery the family decided to start a new life in new york. i lived in exile in mexico for 9 years. my father who had just given a concert at the stage and said you want to write about my life. i was puzzled it seemed it suddenly changed his mind so then we met every day from 5 to 11 in the morning very disciplined recorded his whole life on tape you know i wanted to know what he was like as a boy as a young man and i. say.
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if your soul is settled in a poor district of new york as immigrants their lives were difficult and demanded many sacrifices. no you know found work in a hair salon owned by a sicilian gangster the backroom harbored illegal betting well in the french no nina shampooed the female clientele the wives and daughters of the jewish mafia on tuesdays and on thursdays the italian mafia. it was the era of prohibition. the p.s. all is sometimes made whisky in their best to which they delivered by side car. pastor p. a soul absorbed the vibrancy of the city. by
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that my father happened upon the instrument at a pawn broker in new york's jewish quarter. he bought the band only and brought it home for me. i thought he brought me a fan. i didn't know what it was. even i would own it he explained it was a bandoneon the instrument played in the music i listen to every night you're going to play it was an order you're going to study the band on him. on a story my ears frozen sometimes crying in pain he took me to the bronx to study with ted and to cheat twice a week my father made that sacrifice. he says i don't know deana if i would have done it this year he believed in me. but he believed in me in
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a certain way as if i were a genius. but i'm not. he made me feel important. and that's how he set the course for my life. in 1935 the famous argentine tango singer carlos del arrived in new york to act in a film no nino an ardent admirer of tango wanted to give him a gift a wooden statue he carved himself a store was intrusted with the delivery when gardell heard a store play he invited him to appear in the film. very good friday morning a great deal well you. know you're.
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the encounter with gardell helped shape posterous future. because of all i can tell you is we were very close. to weeks before god i'll die i received a telegram from new york asking me to go on tour with him. but. luckily because of a family problem. i couldn't and i didn't die. but. the plane on which carlos del was traveling crashed in colombia. in 1936 overcome by homesickness the p.a solace returned to argentina still was torn away from the creative energy of bjork. in modo plata aster received word that
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a famous tango orchestra would be performing. he went to the concert and asked to audition the musicians were astounded by the 16 year old's daring. he played gershwin and bach on the bun dony owned spoke spanish with an american accent their response was swift they invited him to buenos aires to join the orchestra. but i knew i had to talk to my father and mother about it i told them i had to and my father was happy. he was losing me and he knew it i said i'm leaving he said something like your mother is going to cry she'll be very sad. for going to cyrus and moved into a shabby boarding house with other musicians he missed his parents and often wept at night but he was tenacious he practiced constantly and played at the novelty cabaret. other orchestras began to take note of the 17 year old bun dony own player
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. they called him a tenderfoot. i entered the world of gigolos and prostitutes a world of drugs drunks and gamblers. a world apart on which i participated and as a member of an orchestra. there were 13 musicians in the orchestra 12 lived with a woman if no nino heard i was living with a woman he'd have killed me. you see. in 1039 arthur rubinstein performed at the theatrical bone in buenos aires. found out where he was staying and brought him the score of a concerto composed in his honor rubenstein examined the score and told him it was not a concerto or had left out the orchestral part. rubenstein advised him to study composition with the noted argentine composer of it. you know. i had
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a way about and it was like speaking to a cleric. but i studied hard and was happy. i went to concerts at the tatra cologne to rehearsals analyzed works bought records i started to listen and that sparked a change in me. in 1942 us to marry did a wolf did he was studying painting and like to sing they shared a deep bond. she poured herself into our stories but in musical career. when he set for poems by jorge luis borges to music for an album to be performed by star singer edmundo rivero he asked did it to sing on the demo and brought the sample to bogus.
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on the day of the recording it moved to revere or asked for his if he liked the result bush told him he preferred the sample version the one sung by the young woman. must appear solo became known as the tango revolutionary who spoke to listeners in an entirely new language of music yes ola broke with traditional tango melodies and rhythms and with the way the bunn dani own was played. what's less well known is that in the 1940 s. he was a star of classical tango orchestras. well still a student p.s.
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all of began composing arrangements for the most famous orchestras of the time including for anybody. but for every $100.00 notes auster wrote struck out 20 so oster decided to quit. when his son daniel was born in 1945 auster was playing with if you're into an orchestra where no one disputed his arrangements. that are still young to make a different kind of music and found his own orchestra even if he would earn less money from it. he managed to bring together the best musicians in argentina and in 1946 he founded the orchestra. jeppesen nielsen no better than me going to be in a safer ground all alone you me with the new little lost in the middle of the piece that without. going to a single boy of my daddy's to be that guy when you're putting him in a white his book we are number one i was because i got it with you michael because i really love boys or wish we had for really was the little guy me me that when you
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look at the most bit of me with your ideas that. his soul had made great strides during his studies. he ventured a big decision he would give up the money and. he decided to stop performing in nightclubs and leave tango behind instead he would focus on composing classical symphonies. in 1953 astor one the father answered in ski prize for his sinfonia when osiris which came with a stipend to study orchestration in paris. eat me so i took the bandoneon with me just in case. you're going to the best composers went to paris to study with not. she was like a 2nd mother to me. she wanted to know how i live my life if i was a good person so. are you married of course i have 2 children she told me that's
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good. i studied every day. she was a torturer. digital are you going to she read my symphonies course she said it's well written but whereas pizzolatto i want to know what does p.x. ola do who is. in the end i told her i played the bandoneon and she had known. that's the only instrument all hindemith couldn't play. he said do you like it i love it she made me play tango.
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took my 2 hands is this is active because all of. you heard my style the harmonies and the rhythm. she didn't hear the cha cha cha the chim whom comment to tango she heard a new tango. that opened my eyes i picked up my band only and never put it down again. later but it was. in paris suster was steeped in creative ferment he works day and night composed many tangos and recorded an album with the paris opera orchestra. armed with all this new music us to return to buenos aires he felt unstoppable he returned home like a gladiator determined to fight for his music and sparked. musical controversy. argentina had just suffered 2 months of rising violence on september 16th 1955
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president one peron was overthrown in a coup d'etat 3 years after the death of evita put on. a military junta took power and a new era of uncertainty began. take that on because i don't fell and tango along with him so it was strange. but going to go evaporated bolero exploded bill haley took off with boogie woogie rock'n'roll and all that stuff. and a form of tango died because no one was dancing tango but at that moment i was born not closer. to.
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that same year us to appeal solo once again brought together the best tango musicians and founded the up to to buenos audience. controversy erupted his tango a vote quickly met with fierce resistance. you know. there. you have it you get maybe a day and i want to. know if i'm going to buy the company or gamble. on you know that i mean i mean. i don't know. i don't. know what i'm not buying it for that because i don't want to think that. you know you got anything better c to. help me home. but i'm not. we often
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had to play for free no one wanted to listen to the ensemble or i was very discouraged and when i get discouraged i leave my boy. he didn't give any warning i mean. we all make the same sudden food his decisions like my grandfather dad moved to new york just like i mean i was studying piano with monta branch playing the chopin preludes sure i played incredibly well. my father said you're going to study at juilliard school of music you judy art like glenn gould and the other great artists. things turn sour in new york but they didn't let on so d.n.r. and i wouldn't. get the sweet things went
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badly really badly i even stole hams from the market i didn't have a dime one day i took one of my records to a studio c.b.s. . never forget what they said it's very beautiful but in this country it's not what you know but who you know that counts. driven by financial difficulties us to resolve to do what he had always rejected to go on tour and play traditional tango accompaniment to dance shows. in 1959 during a tour in puerto rico just as he was about to go on stage he received a call from mar del plata his father had just passed away and. he decided to play anyway.
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back in new york astor asked his family to give him a few moments. alone in half an hour he composed you know. i still remember no nino who always teased sad people. get up you little mope you have to play he always wanted me to play so that's what i did with. it at it.
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before the day for the eve of the movie but i want it you know the family. penniless the p.s.l. is decided to return to buenos aires. last i was able to sell the us no nino earning just enough to buy 4 tickets on a freighter. mr
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p. a solo brought back many new compositions with him from new york but also a deep frustration. in wayne aside is he founded the quintet which once again roiled argentina's music scene. but if you don't believe we present to you the most modern and innovative expression of tango a style that has propelled the art of mustard below 0 into the center of the world's music making.
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this was the start of the most exposure i'd ever had playing every night for a very small audience but they started to really listen and understand what my quintet was trying to accomplish. it as it was a new form of music especially popular with bands of jazz with night outs who went out to listen and enthusiastic it's a. store
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in davies relationship fell into a silent crisis. well don't commute amount of that and you're my sister and i we all live together until 19650966. my father left and it destroyed our family. hello who's that dad how are you i'm leaving ok see you later. no i'm moving out what do you mean you're moving out i packed a few bags you can bring them to this hotel take them to this address between scent mountain and florida. i stood there like an idiot because i never imagined something like that could ever happen you know we had a wonderful family. with us are gone did a sank into depression. several months later danielle left home too and then deanna left for northwest argentina to work with the country's poorest. did was left
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alone. would be i left. i had no home nothing i worked constantly i didn't care about the house i just wanted to write. here i was selfish but that egotism gave me the strength to keep going. i see that it. don't forget it takes more courage to leave than it does to stay. astore ended a divorced in 1966. and .
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i'm going to ask you straight are you bitter you know it absolutely not i had a bad temper because they attacked me i used to have quite a temper like that you know little brother and i ask you because in a newspaper a few weeks ago. you implied that you were recognized in europe more when your own country you were criticized rejected but you don't hold the esteem you deserve. i had opportunities to do wonderful things. i received proposals from france to work with george most duckie from italy to work with mills and i'll be any more projects than i could have imagined. here i have nothing
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there i have everything. my father left for italy he wrote me soon after danny i'm sending you a tape of what i just recorded. when i heard it it sounded like quincy jones but it was my father's music. store was new country and was brimming with new ideas the italians liked his music and he felt at home there. his popularity in italy continued in
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france. success in europe gave him access to an international audience paving the way for collaboration with other established artists like george mr keith john merrow mova marco beloki rostropovich caetano veloso and gerry mulligan. in 1975 influenced by free jazz bands he formed the octave to electronical and
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recruited his son daniel they performed across europe. i'm happy. people follow him applaud me understand me they get the message. she is uneasy because i change constantly. thank. god my father returned one morning in march 78. after a long stay in europe mr appears all is back in argentina. are you here to stay. for the moment yes are you reinventing yourself. i always have tomorrow
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or the day after i'll sit down and think and i'll figure out what i want to do. after 4 years of touring us tour suddenly decided to disband tend to electronical. danielle found out by chance while listening to a radio interview with his father. it was the worst thing i'd ever heard i mean manager that evening my father came round for dinner. i was exhausted my projects weren't working out and playing with my father was the best thing i had. i looked at him and said you realise you're going backwards it was the worst thing i could think of. he said who do you think
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you are. i didn't see my father for 10 years after that so you see below me. because you. see because you think that the book is simple although obviously the. day he. was certain he was sure that i want to do it there was a date with book to bill that you never. see and yet it is a way to. see you forgot what it. was you know it is you know we do more good of us all over the nobles.
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in 1974 deonna was denounced and became the target of the argentine anticommunist alliance of far right death squad she was forced into exile and settled in mexico with her partner the nephew of us who sin of the floor a founder of the mothers of plus today mio a group who campaigned for the disappeared. once she said to me if we were at war and you were on the other side i choose. you i said you're crazy seriously i'd shoot you. that was in 1970 s. you know at that time the end i had taken on a normal day care elsa no one knew where she was later we found out she was in exile but we didn't get to say goodbye. on march 24th 1976 another military coup swept argentina the dictatorship that assumed control
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opened what became the most brutal chapter in the country's history. a facade of normality was maintained which even used the 1978 world cup as a smokescreen. the regime kidnapped tortured murdered and systematically disappeared thousands of citizens. while deanna p s ola lived in exile in mexico her father and some other artists attended a dinner hosted by general vidalia leader of the military junta it took years to forgive her father. progress is so much that i think the rhythm is the only constant in my music.
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everything else is new evolving. it's contemporary it's now yes tango is still in there but it's another world that you know it's the world of astarte piazza ola focus on the. roster divided his time between france and argentina. he found love again with laura and whom he married in 1980 after a long engagement. for you know i'm in a very quiet period of my life very happy very peaceful. what a strange feeling to be at rest and i needed those years of rest. which we
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don't know if i spent last summer and pointed out i stay in europe why. those 3 months in 19791980 renewed me. as a result of my music is not agitated or aggressive anymore it's not as biting and it's very tender romantic and different to. deal with it in the course of. ok let's say out in. just to the us though you know what you're not a. good boy and you know if you're already you don't put. because of a label that's a little better but the label if you would on the i think canada. made your choice . of the guns and that's you know given the baby is old boy because it's full of what they perceive to be because. of you that david what about the baby of the
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little girl or because our little me out of the also typical it will be because. we are so many only one family will be cast and we need. on june 11th 1983 us to piazzolla finally achieved his dream he performed his music on the stage of the theatrical own with a symphony orchestra. at $62.00 he had finally received recognition in the claim at home in argentina. to. woman but he. may know if he didn't do a search in 1982 he had a heart operation. the doctor told him forget the state focus on composing it will do you good but it was impossible for him he loved performing on stage.
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i bumped into my father again in 1989 he stopped by to say hello he blew the horn in his mess a piece i want you to read it was a rather chilly encounter it's been ages since we've seen each other he said i'm important that's why how long how was. something strange happened i couldn't
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compose for the 1st time in my life i sat at the piano and composed nothing. you could tell he was worried but he went on tour anyway and that damned 5th of august his days of playing in chalk fishing and. because he would own. 1 august 5th 1990 while on tour in paris suffered a stroke. several days later he was transported to point a sideways in a coma. my father was in intensive care once deanna and i had calmed down a man stopped me and said are you done come with me and i'll tell you a secret. i thought oh no sit down please this comes from a trusted source your father signed a pact with the devil in exchange for success he agreed to a terrible death my father always said paralysis is the worst thing that could
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happen to me but paralyzed he was and i never saw that man again. on july 4th 19022 years after the stroke died in buenos aires. i don't i'm done the work. on the new. several minto's remain from his days in new york a harmonica. a sketch of him made by diego rivera. and the 1st recording of a stork playing the bun dony on when he was 9 years old. and
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