| -Thank you very much
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| -Muchas gracias.
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| -I'll speak in two languages so you can understand me better.
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| -Italiano!
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| -No, italiano un posso. |
| Posso parlare italiano ma non (…) sono italiano qui.
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| (…) Grazie!
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| -This is the music of Buenos Aires, the New Tango.
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| -Esta es la nueva música de Buenos Aires, el Nuevo Tango.
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| -Questa e la nuova musica di Buenos Aires, il Nuovo Tango. |
| A bene!
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| -We started this music in 1954.
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| -Comenzamos en 1954
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| -Abbiamo cominciato a mille novecento cinquanta quattro (…)
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| -My name is Ástor Piazzolla, I was born in Argentina, I was raised in New York
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| and my parents come from Trani, Italia. |
| Un salutto.
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| -And this strange instrument you see here that many people say it’s an
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| accordion, it’s not an accordion, it’s a bandoneon. |
| It’s an instrument that was
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| invented in Germany in 1854 to play religious music in a church.
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| It started in a church and then, a couple of years later, they took it to the
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| whorehouses in Buenos Aires. |
| And now I’m taking it to Central Park.
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| -It's a nice tour for this instrument.
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| -And it’s not a joke, I’m not trying to be funny, it’s the real life of this
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| instrument. |
| A very surrealistic life, but that’s how Tango was born.
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| -Tango was also and was always in nightclubs, cabarets, like Jazz in New
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| Orleans.
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| -It wasn’t very clean at the beginning. |
| Today it’s supposed to be clean because
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| this is clean: people, free music and love.
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| -Thank you very much, I hope you enjoy our music." |
Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Astor's Speech , by - Astor Piazzolla. Song from the album The Central Park Concert, in the genre Латиноамериканская музыка