Lyrics Astor's Speech - Astor Piazzolla

Astor's Speech

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