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Tango Orchestra Lab in Proitzer Mühle 2026 dates
In 2026 we will expand the offering to 5 sessions of the Tango Orchestra Lab. If you are interested in Tango Music for Dancers, this is a unique and very enjoyable opportunity! Spring: March 27- April 4 Phingsten: May 17 – May 25 Summer: July 24-August 2 Tango United Orchestra Lab: August 2-9 Fall: October…
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Mission Statement
The community tango orchestra project is a response to several opportunities in tango in the early 21st century. Musicians and dance historians explain the phenomenon of Golden Era Tango music in very practical terms. The musicians were playing music constantly for dancers. In many cases, multiple gigs each night. The financial success of the orquesta…
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5 New Arrangements for 2026!!
Last year brought several new tango’s into the repertory. The collection of early Pugliese Instrumental got a wonderful addition with Amurado! This tango is perhaps most famous for dancers from Pedro Laurenz, but the Pugliese recording (1944) is a gorgeous instrumental arrangement that fits very well with the other Pugliese instrumentals from this era. (El…
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Tango Orchestra Workshop in Berlin 2026
We’re very happy to announce that the Landes Musik Akademie Berlin is again offering a 3 day Tango Orchestra Workshop with Korey Ireland in Berlin April 17-19. We’ll work intensively on performance practice and style details using arrangements from Community Tango Orchestra Website. The workshop is open for all experience levels and instruments. The details…
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Summer Tango Music for Dancers…
Calling all tango musicians!!!! Here are three great opportunities to make tango music for dancers in the summer months. 1) Tango Orchestra Lab 25.7.-8.3. 2) Tango United Orchestra Lab 3) Thanari Tango Orchester Werkstatt 28-31.8. All three events have parallel dance events allowing us to immediately and repeatedly play for dancers in the milongas. For…
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New Arrangments for 2025!
Happy New Year!! We’re pleased to update the site with several new arrangements of tango dance hits! For some time now we’ve had a goal to provide arrangements of early Pugliese instrumentals for dance orchestras. The site has long included La Yumba, and El Monito joined the collection last year. Earlier this year we added…
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Tango Orchestra Intensive May 10-12 in Gut Frohberg
For all those who love to play tango music for dancers…we have an invitation from the “Totally in Tango” organizers to accompany a weekend event in Gut Frohberg with dance teachers Eugenia Parilla and Yanick Wyler. The idea is to rehearse as an orchestra parallel to dance workshops in the daytime and join in the…
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7 New Arrangements!
Happy New Year! It’s been awhile since we’ve updated the site and we’re starting the new year with a great bunch (7 in total!) of new charts for the Community Tango Orchestra network. First, we’re slowly building a tanda of Demare vocals. Malena and Una Emocion have been part of the repertory for years, El…
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Tango Orchestra Lab in Proitzer Mühle 2024 Dates….
Spring: March 22 – April 1; May 9-12 (Gut Frohberg); Summer: July 19-28; Tango United Orchester Lab July 28-Aug4; Fall: October 11-20 (deutche sehe unten) Do you play a music instrument? Do you love tango? Are you looking for a relaxed vacation with excellent food, beautiful bucolic setting, opportunities to dance, learn, and make music!…
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Support the cause…
Would you like to support our mission. The Community Tango Orchestra website, and materials are made available to tango musicians around the world free of charge, but naturally we do have costs. Can you help? Click on the button below to send us your donation via Paypal.
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Tango Orchestra Lab in Proitzer Mühle March 4-13, 2022
(deutche sehe unten) Do you play a music instrument? Do you love tango? Are you looking for a relaxed vacation with excellent food, beautiful bucolic setting, opportunities to dance, learn, and make music! Join us for a week of tango music and dance in the idyllic, pastoral setting of the Proitzer Mühle. This historic waterfall…
