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Astor Piazzolla - Volver Tango (1998)
This Volver Tango episode is a biographical documentary about Astor Piazzolla. It follows him from a New York childhood to the late 1960s, combining narration, archival footage and interviews with relatives and musicians, and closes by announcing a second part.
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From New York to Troilo and Paris
The film says the family settled in Manhattan in 1925 and that his father, Nonino, gave him his first bandoneon. A family member recounts a meeting with Carlos Gardel, and the narration places Piazzolla in a scene of El día que me quieras. According to the film, he played bandoneon and arranged for Aníbal Troilo's orchestra between 1939 and 1944. He then led Francisco Fiorentino's orchestra before forming his own orquesta típica in 1946. The episode presents his studies with Alberto Ginastera and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, whom a first-person archival clip calls a second mother.
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Octet, quintet and collaborators
The narration lists the members of the Octeto Buenos Aires, among them Leopoldo Federico, Enrique Mario Francini and Atilio Stampone. Interviewees describe the octet as a complete break with dance music, with guitar improvisation close to jazz. After a difficult return to New York in 1958–59 and a jazz-tango album, the narration says Piazzolla formed his first quintet, which speakers call the key ensemble of his career. Later segments cover Lo que vendrá and Adiós Nonino, which Piazzolla links to his father's death. They also cover the 1965 album with Jorge Luis Borges and the opera María de Buenos Aires with Horacio Ferrer, which premiered with Amelita Baltar and Héctor de Rosas.
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