For Astor Piazzolla and his “Le Grand Tango” work, it’s a little like the old TV commercials for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups: Hey, you got chocolate on my peanut butter! You got peanut butter on my ...

With its beginnings in traditional tango, the Argentine composer's work has taken on new life through different instrumentations, adaptations, and genre-bending arrangements. Author Austin Way is a ...

Astor Piazzolla brought the tango from the streets of Buenos Aires into concert halls around the world. We'll enjoy his History of the Tango during our music this evening beginning at 8 p.m on 91.1 ...

This February has a lot of cultural entertainment to indulge in, from rural festivals to a carnival bonanza. Nestled in between are events that fill the evenings with melodies and soulful creativity.

Art critics and historians — visual, musical, or otherwise — often look at how stylistic and aesthetic shifts instigate or reflect larger social phenomena. So what does it mean that in the past few ...

Santa Barbara County is blessed with a diversity of vital nonprofit organizations dedicated to improving the health, well-being, growth, civic leadership and compassion of our community. Charitable ...

Throughout most of the year, the Northwest BachFest is a showcase for noteworthy pieces — both well-known and underperformed — from the classical chamber music repertoire. Not all of the music in ...

The vibrant sound of tango danced through Auer Hall on Thursday night as the Latin American Music Center invited Latin Grammy winning tango-bassist Pablo Aslan to lead a tango-jazz concert celebrating ...

With Argentina and Spain — by way of France—on the itinerary, two of the ballets in Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami’s opening concert of the season will send us on fanciful globetrotting. The third, ...

It's easy to envision tango. Two dancers draped over one another, nose to nose, intertwining legs, quick stepping, spinning, dipping and almost pulsating with unbridled sensuality. It's just about the ...