Paris

Paris: Paris: in 1954 Piazzolla and his wife left their two children with his parents and travelled to Paris, where (after winning a composition prize) he studied; the stay led him back to tango and to the nuevo tango ensembles, Paris: in 1977 Piazzolla played a memorable concert at the Olympia in Paris with a new formation of his Conjunto Electronico (after the Teatro Gran Rex concert in Buenos Aires in December 1976), Paris: by the end of 1913 the dance teachers who had introduced the tango to Paris were banished from the city, because of its perceived sexual overtones, and Paris: in 1913 a second Argentine expedition to Europe, led by the pianist Celestino Ferrer with the bandoneonist Vicente Loduca and the violinist Eduardo Monelos and the dancers Casimiro Aín (el Vasquito) and Martina, took the name Murga Argentina; their adventures are the subject of Enrique García Velloso's play El tango en París.^††† 1913: Paris: in 1913 a second Argentine expedition to Europe, led by the pianist Celestino Ferrer with the bandoneonist Vicente Loduca and the violinist Eduardo Monelos and the dancers Casimiro Aín (el Vasquito) and Martina, took the name Murga Argentina; their adventures are the subject of Enrique García Velloso's play El tango en París.^† 1913: Paris: by the end of 1913 the dance teachers who had introduced the tango to Paris were banished from the city, because of its perceived sexual overtones.^† 1954: Paris: in 1954 Piazzolla and his wife left their two children with his parents and travelled to Paris, where (after winning a composition prize) he studied; the stay led him back to tango and to the nuevo tango ensembles.^† 1977: Paris: in 1977 Piazzolla played a memorable concert at the Olympia in Paris with a new formation of his Conjunto Electronico (after the Teatro Gran Rex concert in Buenos Aires in December 1976).^†