Dallas Symphony Orchestra performs a piece from their sizzling program, Tango Caliente!, featuring Argentinian dancers Patricio Touceda & Sonya Tsekanovsky and Grammy-winning bandoneón player Héctor Del Curto.

Though the tango was among the most popular dance and entertainment forms of the early 20th century, it was the brilliant Argentinean composer and bandoneónist Astor Piazzolla whose daring innovations brought it into the concert hall. About his tango music, he said, "Traditional tango listeners hated me. I introduced fugues, counterpoint and other irreverences: people thought I was crazy. All the tango critics and radio stations of Buenos Aires called me a clown, they said my music was 'paranoiac.' And they made me popular. The young people who had lost interest in the traditional tango started listening to me. It was a war of one against all, but in ten years, the war was won."

Music:
Villoldo by El Choclo (Orch. Tyzik)

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