South America
October 16, 2008
- Besides being a superb poet and noted figure of the musical stage, Horacio is a renowned educator of tango music and lyrics.Terry: The work you've done with the Academy of the Tango; we'd like to know something of the Academy's history, how it got started and what was its intention.Horacio: I'll tell you. In 1954, many years ago, I was an adolescent, and I founded La Guardia Nueva in Montevideo. ...
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October 15, 2008
- Horacio Ferrer and Astor Piazzolla were close friends and had a remarkable creative collaboration for many years. Horacio: Okay. Shall we talk about Astor Piazzolla?Terry: Yes. When he was a young man, he was in the United States, in New York.Horacio: Yes, he was there a long, long time. We went to New York.Terry: Do you know that in English he had a Lower East Side accent? I heard him speaking ...
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October 14, 2008
- Horacio Ferrer is to contemporary tango what Ira Gershwin is to Tin Pan Alley - and maybe more.He is a recognized poet, a tango lyricist of formidable talent, and a noted historian — of promethean output — of Argentine tango music and dance. His best-known lyrics are those for "Chiquilín de Bachín," which was composed by Astor Piazzolla. It is an instantly recognizable tango ...
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September 24, 2008
- Please look at a very inventive rendition of one of Pablo Neruda's Twenty Poems of Love and One Song of Hopelessness.My own translation of this book is forthcoming.
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September 4, 2008
- "A veces me pregunto si no será mi sombraque siempre me persigue, o un ser sin voluntad.Pero es que ya ha nacido así, pa' la milonga,Y ,como yo, se muere, se muere por bailar."("I ask myself sometimes if it's really my shadowthat's always chasing me, or some being with no will of its own. But it was born this way, for the milonga,and, like me, it dies, it dies to ...
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August 20, 2008
- In the world-wide community of Argentine tango (an enormous community now on every continent), there are a few maestros that are sought after everywhere. These are people who have studied, danced, and written about tango so extensively that to dance with them means that you’ll receive the distilled essence of the form itself — its movement, its history, its soul.One of these maestros — ...
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August 17, 2008
- I think the primary job of any translator of creative work from one language to another is to find the words and phrases in the second language that most closely adhere to those words in the first language, and above all does it so that the soulful spirit of the originals is duplicated. That’s the task, and it is seldom successfully performed. Spanish is a different language from English, to ...
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August 16, 2008
- 100En medio de la tierra apartaré las esmeraldas para divisarte y tú estarás copiando las espigas con una pluma de agua mensajera. ¡Qué mundo! ¡Qué profundo perejil! Qué nave navegando en la dulzura! ¡Y tú tal vez y yo tal vez topacio! Ya no habrá división en las campanas. Ya no habrá sino todo el aire libre, las manzanas llevadas por el viento, el suculento libro en la enramada, y ...
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August 15, 2008
- 99Otros días vendrán, será entendido el silencio de plantas y planetas y cuántas cosas puras pasarán! Tendrán olor a luna los violines! El pan será tal vez como tú eres: tendrá tu voz, tu condición de trigo, y hablarán otras cosas con tu voz: los caballos perdidos del Otoño. Aunque no sea como está dispuesto el amor llenará grandes barricas como la antigua miel de los pastores, y ...
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August 14, 2008
- 98Y esta palabra, este papel escrito por las mil manos de una sola mano, no queda en ti, no sirve para sueños, cae a la tierra: allí se continúa. No importa que la luz o la alabanza se derramen y salgan de la copa si fueron un tenaz temblor del vino, si se tiñó tu boca de amaranto. No quiere más la sílaba tardía, lo que trae y retrae el arrecife de mis recuerdos, la irritada espuma, no ...
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