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The Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires ("Buenos Aires Philharmonic") was established in 1946 under the name Orquesta Sinfónica del Teatro Municipal ("Municipal Theater Symphony Orchestra"). It was the first official, exclusively symphonic, orchestra of the city of Buenos Aires, and was housed in the Teatro Municipal.
By then, Buenos Aires became the center of the massive diffusion of Argentine music, due to the vitality of its show business, for being the headquarters of the record companies (the first Argentine gramophone records were recorded in 1902) [58] and the headquarters of the main radio stations (Buenos Aires was the city where the first radio ...
Modern Argentine culture has been influenced largely by the Spanish colonial period and the 19th/20th century European immigration (mainly Italian and Spanish), and also by Amerindian culture, particularly in the fields of music and art. Buenos Aires, its cultural capital, is largely characterized by both the prevalence of people of Southern ...
Two dancers of Argentine tango on the street in Buenos Aires. Argentine tango is a musical genre and accompanying social dance originating at the end of the 19th century in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. [1] It typically has a 2 4 or 4 4 rhythmic time signature, and two or three parts repeating in patterns such as ABAB or ABCAC.
Ernesto de la Guardia, a member of the Wagnerian Society of Buenos Aires, first proposed the creation of a national conservatory. He gained support from the president Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear and his wife Regina Pacini a noted soprano, [1] the Conservatorio Nacional de Música y Declamación (National Conservatory of Music and Recitation) was founded by Argentine musician Carlos López ...
In Buenos Aires, during the two governments of Juan Manuel de Rosas, it was common for “afroporteños” (black people of Buenos Aires) to perform candombe in public, even encouraged and visited by Rosas and his daughter, Manuela. Rosas was defeated at the battle of Caseros in 1852, and Buenos Aires began a profound and rapid cultural shift ...
During the period of 1903–1910, over a third of the 1,000 gramophone records released were of tango music, and tango sheet music sold in large quantities. [11] In about 1870, the bandoneon was introduced to Buenos Aires from Germany, and it became linked inextricably with tango music starting in about 1910. In 1912, Juan "Pacho" Maglio was ...
3.1 Characteristics. ... classical music and world ballet have performed in the Colón ... Buenos Aires, 1969. Ferro, Valenti. Las voces del Teatro Colón, Buenos ...