Tango innovator ASTOR PIAZZOLLA. Since the early 60s, PIAZZOLLA lead groups that played an updated tango that connected this Argentinian form with musical innovations from Europe and America, both classical and contemporary. The adjustments had earned him the emnity of Argentinians, and for the most of the 70s he lived in France where he wrote film scores. PIAZZOLLA was a classically trained composer who wrote symphonies and studied with Nadia Boulanger, the renown French instructor of composition. PIAZZOLLA died July 4th, 1992. "57 Minutos Con La Realidad" (Intuition Music, New York) released March 5, is the final recording of the great bandoneonist with his own group. (REBROADCAST from 4/
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