ARTax Music Blog
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A woman’s journey
A musical and personal journey from the anti-Milosevic protests in Belgrade through the Netherlands’ immigration offices, classrooms, smoky cafes, hospital rooms and opera world premières. A cabaret-style show featuring opera, chanson, flamenco, Serbian songs and musical. How was this show born?
Tango: the interpreters
A history of tango would not be at least partially complete without mentioning some its greatest interpreters: composers, lyricists and the women of tango
History of Tango: the 20th century
In the first years of the 1900, the tango enters theaters and cafés, soon spreading out of Argentina, getting international recognition as an artform.
History of Tango: the early years
The tango is the historical and cultural testimony of a complex country like Argentina, but it is above all the expression of a universal lyricism.
Astor Piazzolla – Tango rEvolution
Astor Piazzolla is today the incarnation of tango, but his life was also full of controversy for the revolutionary way in which he approached this art-form.
Carlos Guastavino – the Schubert of the Pampas
Carlos Guastavino, one of the greatest Argentinian composers, is known especially for his songs, heart-breaking and melancholic, but so full of life.
Heitor Villa-Lobos – Brazilian passion
One of the greatest South-American composers of all times: Heitor Villa-Lobos. Find out more about his passionate music, featured in our Art o’Clock series.
Alberto Ginastera
It’s almost like Argentina did not exist before him: Alberto Ginastera was one of the most important 20th-century composers of the Americas.
What you don’t know about women
We’re happy to announce that we’ve been invited to perform at the Kunst en Kunstig festival in Zeddam.
Next October 1st, ARTax will join forces with the McCray International Studio of Vocal Arts in their latest production: What You Don’t Know About Women, a theatrical concert with a twist.
Intimate moments are characterized by the most beloved American composers of the twentieth century: Gershwin, Bernstein, Sondheim, Barber and more.