Biography / Synopsis

Presentación de 50 Claves del Tango, por Laura Falcoff's biography

Critic Pablo Gianera said, about this recently published book, “What and how much do we known about tango? Probably, less than what we think. In this concise, precise and erudite book, journalist and researcher Laura Falcoff offers fifty essential keys for a better understanding, although rather than keys they are brief essays, miniatures that turn the volume into a kaleidoscope: they may be about proper names (Discépolo, Virulazo, Manzi), landscapes (the neighborhood, the love nest, Paris), topics (the mother, the lost woman) or more musical matters (improvisation, rubato). Falcoff’s informed, intelligent and not few times poetic style is evident right from the first line, ‘“He sings better every day,” people say about Carlos Gardel. … However, this anachronistic saying bears an unquestionable truth: Gardel sings better every day.’”