When he was 12, Julien Labro realized music could evoke a deep emotional response. The Frenchman was three years deep into playing the accordion, after seeing it on TV and falling in love with its ...

Dino Saluzzi is everyone’s favorite bandoneon player. His combination of extraordinary virtuosity and passionate expressiveness on the difficult-to-play Argentine button accordion have made him a ...

Today's casual observer might be forgiven for thinking of Astor Piazzolla simply as an avuncular accordion-wielding avatar of Argentine tango traditionalism. But he called his music "nuevo tango" for ...

The Sewickley Music Club welcomes back its members for the 105th year, and the 2025-2026 season boasts a talented lineup of musical performances. The first musical program will be performed by ...

Koji Hirata encountered the bandoneon, a type of concertina, at the young age of 13. While it's common for a teenager to take up a musical instrument, Hirata showed an unusually high level of ...

Earlier this month was the birth centenary of the larger-than-life Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player and arranger Astor Piazzolla (March 11, 1921-July 4, 1992). To mark the anniversary, The ...

Ástor Piazzolla, the visionary Argentinian composer, band leader and bandoneon virtuoso who created the revolutionary nuevo tango style in the 1950s, is being celebrated around the world today, March ...

Midland Symphony Orchestra Music Director Bohuslav Rattay promises a program “a little out of the box” for Saturday’s season-opening concert. “I like to mix it up a little bit … try a variety of ...

It’s 45 minutes into Queen City Tango’s twice-monthly milonga, and my tango partner and I are nowhere near ready to join the other dancers. In a mirror-lined dance studio hung with paper lanterns at ...