Organito de la Tarde - Cátulo Castillo - TangoOZ - Sydney Youth Orchestra - SYO - Tango Oz

Organito De La Tarde. Music by Catulo Castillo, Tango Oz (TangoOZ). Led by Tango specialist Maggie Ferguson (bandoneon) http://tinyurl.com/4rmstwe

Orquesta Tipica version by Carlos Di Sarli courtesy of TangoVia http://www.tangovia.org/

Catulo Castillo, with his lyrics, dug the subjects that always haunted tango: the painful nostalgia for what is lost, love sufferings and the decline of life. Instead he neither had space for humor nor for the unworried stroke, and nor even for the rhythmic emphasis of milonga. The word "último" (last) appears in several titles of his works, as testimony of that parade of farewells that runs through his lyrics, where there is always pity for those who suffer and a frequent resort to alcohol as an escape.

Cátulo conceived pages of great beauty, several of them bore lyrics written by his father, José González Castillo, talented comedy writer and playwright with anarchist ideas, who had to live exiled for some years in Chile, with his young child, to evade repression. Tangos like the everlasting "Organito de la tarde" (that he conceived at the age of 17), "El aguacero", "Papel picado", "¡El circo se va!" and "Silbando" (in collaboration with Sebastián Piana) are examples of the sole case of so important creative communion between father and son in the history of the genre. An amazing thing is that Cátulo had managed to be, at the same time of being an inspired musician and poet, a well-known boxing fighter, that even won the featherweight Argentine championship.

TangoOZ website is at http://syo.com.au

TangoOZ es una orquesta donde músicos jóvenes aprender y reproducir música auténtico tango argentino. Dirigido por Tango especialista Ferguson Maggie.
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What a supremely fantastic ORQUESTA playing in the authentic Argentine style. Go you young Aussies! Maggie what a supurb job you have done! I also SO MUCH APPRECIATE the historical introductory remarks to each of your offerings. Everything you play is absolutely first class. Thank you.