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BUCHAREST TANGO (International tango ensemble)

 

Tuesday, 2010 August 17th, 7 PM

Dzintari Concert Hall

 

BUCHAREST TANGO (International tango ensemble)

Soloist – Oana Cătălina Chiţu (vocal)

 

 BUCHAREST TANGO is a unique program, one that resurrects a lost music, the sound of Romanian Tango as played in Bucharest cafes and parks, restaurants and clubs across the 1930s. Oana Cătălina Chiţu and her musicians combine the lost tango songs of that era with the folk ballads of Maria Tanase (1913-1963; the Romanian Piaf).

Oana was born in rural Romania and grew up listening to her father sing the lost tangos. Visiting relatives in Bucharest she found they had old gramophones and scratchy 78 recordings of the tangos. She began to memorise this beautiful, vanished music. At the same time she loved the songs of Maria Tanase, the tragic diva of Romania, whose voice once haunted the nation. No other singer of the younger generation from Romania has been able to approach both the tangos à la romanesque and Tanase's ballads so authentically yet freely.

Although Romania is a country with a rich musical tradition a virus of cheap, electronic pop music has seized the nation post-revolution. Oana represents the cutting edge of a new generation of Romanians interested in the brilliant now largely forgotten musical traditions from a bygone age.  

 

 


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17.08.2010  19:00
Dzintari Concert Hall

BUCHAREST TANGO (International tango ensemble)
Soloist – Oana Catalina Chitu (vocal)

 

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