{"id":4922,"date":"2016-05-16T14:06:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T04:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4922"},"modified":"2016-05-16T14:07:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T04:07:22","slug":"finding-his-own-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4922","title":{"rendered":"Finding the voice of Piazzolla"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I was writing symphonies, chamber music, string quartets. But when Nadia Boulanger analyzed my music, she complained that she couldn&#8217;t find any Piazzolla in there. She could find Ravel and Stravinsky, maybe Bela Bartok or Hindemith, but never Piazzolla. The truth is I was ashamed to tell her that I was a tango musician, that I had worked in the whorehouses and cabarets of Buenos Aires. Tango musician was a dirty word in Argentina when I was young. It was the underworld. But Nadia made me play a <em>tango<\/em> for her on the piano, and then she said, &#8220;You idiot! don&#8217;t you know, this is the real Piazzolla, not the other one? You can throw all that other music away&#8221;. So I threw away ten years work, and started with my <em>nuevo tango<\/em> in 1954.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Astor Piazzolla<\/p>\n<p>Cited at: http:\/\/www.tango.montreal.qc.ca\/cbc\/TANGO<em>PT3\/Tango<\/em>3.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was writing symphonies, chamber music, string quartets. But when Nadia Boulanger analyzed my music, she complained that she couldn&#8217;t find any Piazzolla in there. She could find Ravel and Stravinsky, maybe Bela Bartok or Hindemith, but never Piazzolla. The truth is I was ashamed to tell her that I was a tango musician, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[584],"tags":[1282,766,1283,1284],"class_list":["post-4922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composers-quotes","tag-astor-piazzolla","tag-creativity","tag-nadia-boulanger","tag-original"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4924,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions\/4924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}