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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…
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…
Tango Orchestra Workshop in Berlin
We’re very happy to announce that the Landes Musik Akademie Berlin is offering a 3 day Tango Orchestra Workshop with Korey Ireland in Berlin April 4-6. 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 and…
Tango Orchestra Lab in Proitzer Mühle 2025 dates
In 2025 will once again offer 4 sessions of the Tango Orchestra Lab. Spring: March 21-30 Summer: July 25-August 3 Tango United Orchestra Lab: August 3-10 Fall: October 10-19 (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…
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…
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…
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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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…
Holiday Greetings, Holiday Music!
It’s that time of year… I want to take a moment to express my gratitude for all who have participated in and supported the Community Tango Orchestra Project. I’m continually inspired by the great things that keep growing from this initiative. In the spirit of music making/sharing I want to share with all of you…
New Arrangement: Quejas de Bandoneon!
This one has been a while in the making! Quejas de Bandoneon is something of a landmark piece. For me it’s strongly connected to the orchestra of Anibal Troilo (who’s 1944 recording you can here below), though there are countless great versions, by nearly every prominent orchestra. This dramatic tango was originally composed in 1918…
