Organito de la Tarde -- Cátulo Castillo -- Tango

Fuego Blanco with Kinzey Alexander (flute) & Maggie Ferguson (bandoneon) www.maggiefergusontango.com
Cátulo Castillo, with his lyrics, dug the subjects that always haunted tango: the painful nostalgia for what is lost, love sufferings and the decline of life. Instead he neither had space for humor nor for the unworried stroke, and nor even for the rhythmic emphasis of milonga. The word "último" (last) appears in several titles of his works, as testimony of that parade of farewells that runs through his lyrics, where there is always pity for those who suffer and a frequent resort to alcohol as an escape. Cátulo did not allow himself, as lyricist, a defined profile, so he on that respect is closer to Enrique Cadícamo than to Homero Manzi. He often neither scratches the poetic quality of the latter nor the whipping power of observation of Enrique Santos Discépolo, but he honored the genre with a vast influential work, being as well outstanding his contribution as composer.
Tangos like the everlasting "Organito de la tarde" (that he conceived at the age of 17), "El aguacero", "Papel picado", "¡El circo se va!" and "Silbando" (in collaboration with Sebastián Piana) are examples of the sole case of so important creative communion between father and son in the history of the genre. With other lyricists as well he wrote seminal pages, such as "La violeta", with the poet Nicolás Olivari; "Corazón de papel", with Alberto José Vicente Franco, or "Viejo ciego", with Manzi(and in collaboration with Piana), among others. An amazing thing is that Cátulo had managed to be, at the same time of being an inspired musician and poet, a well-known boxing fighter, that even won the featherweight Argentine championship.
Excerpt from www.todotango.com/english/creadores/ccastillo.asp
Filmed live on 29 November 2013 at Verbrugghen Hall, Conservatorium of Music, Sydney.
Video and sound recording produced by Jason Julian www.jasonjulian.com
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Muy buena versión de este famoso tango.

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¡Exquisita versión!

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gracias buena melodias

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Tango de Cátulo Castillo la música y José González Castillo la letra.