Starting august 16th on each of the. Last of his solo revolutionise tango in breaking with convention he brought this traditional argentine music out of the dance hall and into concert venues around the world. That. They they mean of something 1955 something new appeared tango intended for listening. This was a groundbreaking development it was tango that was no longer only for dancing that was completely new. Is innovative tango which enraged traditionalists in his day drew inspiration from jazz klezmer music stravinsky and bartok p. S. Solo went on to become one of the leading composers of the 20th century in 1960 i discovered each radio speaking about me one called me assassin generated the other one murder i was having fun i was in the media they made me popular. I remember the last text you have been motorcyclists i called taxi anyone who saw my face. Shot and when hes insulted me and he called me communist. He went away i just didnt. Like the dogs when he looked into his like that so what did he do this to me i didnt do nothing i only change the tangle thats all i. Can see and he. Isnt even if its your now or him. Whereas you know. Youre a poor. Little piece of the puzzle. But at the bottom of. It but i believe this is. Your son and his 2 children deanna and danielle had a complex relationship marked by periods of closeness and times of silence even estrangement. Deanna pierce will eventually decided to write a biography of her father in preparation she recorded a series of interviews which no one would see for many years. The conversations marked the end of a long period of deep discord deonna died in 2009 several years after the book was published. If you. Plan to write about asteroid. She mentioned it to him my fathers 1st reaction was you know biographies are about the dead not the living if youre still alive. Daniel p. S. Solo who is also a musician is now the custodian of his fathers legacy. Danielles relationship with faster was not always easy times of deep affinity and musical collaboration alternated with long periods of separation. But always united the father and son was a love of fishing. The vehicle shop becoming my father and i went shock machine together only once it was in some glass in 1961. I think what made my father strong was the problem with his leg he tried to conceal it but he couldnt hide it. When you looked at him his left leg was a pillar and his right was scrawny. It always upset him if someone had called him limp he would have attacked them. I was born march 11th 1921 in Mar Del Plata argentina. It was a town of fishermen and immigrants that the local elites hope to transform into a luxury a seaside resort. Pastor was born with a clubfoot in an attempt to correct it he underwent 7 surgeries the 1st when he was just a year old after each surgery he spent many months in a cast. His mother assumed to and his father to be thin to decided not to have any more children fearing they might be born with a similar disability no nina and his parents were called pampered their only child. After the last surgery the family decided to start a new life in new york. I lived in exile in mexico for 9 years. My father who had just given a concert at the stage and said you want to write about my life. I was puzzled it seemed it suddenly changed his mind so then we met every day from 5 to 11 in the morning very disciplined recorded his whole life on tape. I wanted to know what he was like as a boy as a young man yet. They say. If your soul is settled in a poor district of new york as immigrants their lives were difficult and demanded many sacrifices. Noni you know found work in a hair salon owned by a sicilian gangster the backroom harbored Illegal Betting well in the french no nina shampooed the female clientele the wives and daughters of the jewish mafia on tuesdays and on thursdays the italian mafia. It was the era of prohibition. The p. S. All is sometimes made whiskey in their bathtub which they delivered by side car. Pastor p. A soul absorbed the vibrancy of the city. By the roots my father happened upon the instrument at a pawn broker in new yorks jewish quarter. He bought the band and brought it home for me. I thought he brought me a fan. I didnt know what it was. He explained it was a bandoneon the instrument played in the music i listen to every night youre going to play it was an order youre going to study the. Ears frozen sometimes crying in pain he took me to the bronx to study with teddy to chew twice a week my father made that sacrifice he says i dont know deana if i would have done it this year he believed in me. But he believed in me in a certain way as if i were a genius. But im not. He made me feel important. And thats how he set the course for my life. In 1935 the famous argentine tango singer carlos del arrived in new york to act in a film no nino an ardent admirer of tango wanted to give him a gift a wooden statue he carved himself. Was intrusted with the delivery when gardell heard a store play he invited him to appear in the film. Proper compliment for me to very good friday morning a great deal more like. The encounter with carville helped shape asterisk future. All i can tell you is we were very close. To weeks before god die i received a telegram from new york asking me to go on tour with him. But. Luckily because of a family problem. I couldnt and i didnt die. With. The plane on which carlos codell was travelling crashed in colombia. In 1936 overcome by homesickness the p. A soul is returned to argentina still was torn away from the Creative Energy of bjork. In murder plot to us to receive the word that a famous tango orchestra would be performing. He went to the concert and asked to audition the musicians were astounded by the 16 year old staring. He played gershwin and bach on the bun dhoni owned spoke spanish with an american accent their response was swift they invited him to buenos aires to join the orchestra. But i knew i had to talk to my father and mother about it i told them i had to and my father was happy. He was losing me and he knew it i said im leaving he said Something Like your mother is going to cry shell be very sad. For a boy osiris and moved into a shabby boarding house with other musicians he missed his parents and often wept at night but he was tenacious he practiced constantly and played at the novelty cabaret. Other orchestras began to take note of the 17 year old bunn dani young players. They called him a tenderfoot. I entered the world of gigolos and prostitutes a world of drugs drunks and gamblers. A world apart on which i participated and as a member of an orchestra. There were 13 musicians in the orchestra 12 lived with a woman if no nino heard i was living with a woman hed have killed me. You see. In 1939 Arthur Rubinstein performed at the theatrical bone in buenos aires. Found out where he was staying and brought him the score of a concerto composed in his honor. Rubenstein examined the score and told him it was not a concerto or had left out the orchestral part. Rubenstein advised him to study composition with the noted argentine composer in the sierra. Beautiful i had a way about it it was like speaking to a cleric. But i studied hard and was happy. I went to concerts at the tatra cologne to rehearsals analyzed works records i started to listen and that sparked a change in me. In 1902 us to marry didi wolf did he was studying painting and like to sing they shared a deep fund. She poured herself into our stories budding musical career. When he set for poems by jorge luis for his to music for an album to be performed by star singer Edmundo Rivero he asked did it to sing on the demo and brought the sample to bogus. On the day of the recording it moved to revere or asked for his if he liked the result bush told him he preferred the sample version the one sung by the young woman. Must appear solo became known as the tango revolutionary who spoke to listeners in an entirely new language of music pure soul of broke with traditional tango melodies and rhythms and with the way the bun dony on was played. What is less well known is that in the 1940 s. He was a star of classical tango orchestras. Well still a student p. S. Solo began composing arrangements for the most famous orchestras of the time including for. But for every 100. 00 notes auster wrote struck out 20 so i asked or decided to quit. When his son daniel was born in 1945 aster was playing with if youre into an orchestra where no one disputed his arrangements. That are still young to make a different kind of music and found his own orchestra even if he would earn less money from it. He managed to bring together the best musicians in argentina and in 1946 he founded the orchestra. Jan based on new years and i know better than me one of the n. S. A. Program will only be me with any of the laws in the middle of the it appears that without. Going to a single body of my daddys to back up when youre with the noumenal whitest book we will see another one i was because i got it with you michael because of a Global Voices or wish we had for really was the little guy meet with that one all over the top. Of me with your i used. To be a soldier had made Great Strides during his studies he ventured a big decision he would give up the money and he decided to stop performing in nightclubs and leave tango behind instead he would focus on composing classical symphonies. In 1953 astor one the father incidence the prize for his symphony of buenos aires which came with a stipend to study orchestration in paris. Eat miss i took the bandoneon with me just in case. Over the years the best composers went to paris to study would not be a blog. She was like a 2nd mother to me. She wanted to know how i live my life if i was a good person so. Are you married of course i have 2 children she told me thats good. I studied every day. She was a torturer. Digital are you going to she read my symphonies course she said its well written but where. I want to know what does p. S. Ola do who is. In the end i told her i played the bandoneon she had known. Thats the only instrument that Paul Hindemith couldnt play. He said do you like it i love it she made me play tango. Took my 2 hands is this is that b. S. All. She heard my style the harmonies and the rhythm. She didnt hear the cha cha cha the chim whom common to tango she heard a new tango. That opened my eyes i picked up my benoni and never put it down again years later but it was. In paris suster was steeped in creative ferment he works day and night composed many tangos and recorded an album with the paris opera orchestra. Armed with all this new music us to return to when aside. He felt unstoppable he returned home like a gladiator determined to fight for his music and sparked a musical controversy. Argentina had just suffered 2 months of rising violence on september 16th 1955 president one peron was overthrown in a coup detat 3 years after the death of evita put on. A military junta took power and a new era of uncertainty began. Take it or dont fell and tango along with him so it was strange. Going to go evaporated bolero exploded bill haley took off with boogie woogie rocknroll and all that stuff. And a form of tango died because no one was dancing tango but at that moment i was born not causal. Lets say near us to solo once again brought together the best tango musicians and founded the upset to buenos aires. Controversy erupted in his tangled way both quickly met with fierce resistance. Theyre. Going. To. Be able to say and i want america back and theyll pay for me by coming on here. Im sure you know better i think i mean. I dont know. What im. Doing im not buying it nor that you dont want to know that. Dont you got anything that i have. And im not. We often had to play for free no one wanted to listen to the ensemble or i was very discouraged and when i get discouraged i leave my boy. He didnt give any morning i mean. We all make the same sudden foolish decisions like my grandfather dad moved to new york just like neal i was studying piano with monta branch piano playing the chopin preludes. I played incredibly well. My father said youre going to study at Juilliard School of music you judy art like glenn gould and the other great artists. Things turned sour in new york but they didnt let on so d. N. R. And i wouldnt. Things went badly really badly i even stole hams from the market i didnt have a dime one day i took one of my records to a studio c. B. S. Never forgive what they said its very beautiful but in this country its not what you know but who you know that counts was. Driven by Financial Difficulties us to resolve to do what he had always rejected to go on tour and play traditional tango accompaniments to dance shows. In 1959 during a tour in puerto rico just as he was about to go on stage he received a call from Mar Del Plata his father no nino had just passed away and. He decided to play anyway. Back in new york astor asked his family to give him a few moments. Alone in half an hour he composed adios noni you know. I still remember no nino who always teased sad people. Get up you little mope you have to play he always wanted me to play so thats what i did with a. Little. Bit. Of the faith of the east and the new guinea but a little bit you know the but. Penniless the p. S. L. Is decided to return to buenos aires. Astor was able to sell the us no new no earning just enough to buy 4 tickets on a freighter. Mr p. A solo brought back many new compositions with him from new york but also a deep frustration in when a site as he founded the quintet which once again raw. Argentinas music scene. But if you dont believe we present to you the most modern and integrative expression of tango a style that has propelled the arent abreast r. P. O. Zone into the center of the worlds music making. This was the start of the most exposure id ever had playing every night for a very small audience but they started to really listen and understand what my quintet was trying to accomplish. It as it was a new form of music especially popular with bands of jazz with night outs who went out to listen and enthusiastic into another. Store indeed his relationship fell into a silent crisis. Not that i knew my sister and i we all did he get there until 19650966. My father left and it destroyed our family. Hello who is their dad how are you im leaving ok see you later. No im moving out what do you mean youre moving out i packed a few bags you can bring them to this hotel take them to this address between scent mountain and florida. I stood there like an idiot because i never imagined Something Like that could ever happen you know we had a wonderful family. With us are gone did they sank into depression. Several months later danielle left home too and then deanna left for northwest argentina to work with the countrys poorest. Did was left alone. Would be i left. I had no home nothing i worked constantly i didnt care about the house i just wanted to write. Here i was selfish but that egotism gave me the strength to keep going. I see the kind of. Dont forget it takes more courage to leave than it does to stay. Astore ended a divorced in 1966. And a. Book. That. Im going to ask you straight are you bitter you know it absolutely absolutely not i had a bad temper because they attacked me i used to have quite a temper like that you know but when. I ask you because in a newspaper a few weeks ago. You implied that you were recognized in europe to morrow in your own country you were criticized rejected but you dont hold the esteem you deserve. I had opportunities to do wonderful things. I received proposals from france to work with george most duckie from italy to work with mills and ill be any more projects than i could have imagined. Here i have nothing there i have everything. My father left for italy he wrote me soon after danny im sending you a tape of what i just recorded. When i heard it it sounded like quincy jones but it was my fathers music. Us to his new country and was brimming with new ideas the italians liked his music and he felt at home there. His popularity in italy continued in france. Success in europe gave him access to an International Audience paving the way for collaboration with other established artists like george mystic keith john merrow. Marco beloki rostropovich Caetano Veloso and gerry mulligan. In 1975 influenced by free jazz bands formed the arctic to electronical and recruited his son daniel they performed across europe. For pick im happy. People solomon applaud me understand me they get the message. Sure isnt easy because i change constantly. Everywhere you go its my father returned one morning in march 78. After a long stay in europe mr appears all is back in argentina. Are you here to stay. For the moment yes are you venting yourself. I always have tomorrow or the day after ill sit down and think and ill figure out what i want to do. After 4 years of touring us tour suddenly decided to disband to electronical. Danielle found out by chance while listening to a radio interview with his father. It was the worst thing id ever heard i mean my not usually that evening my father came round for dinner. I was exhausted my projects werent working out and playing with my father was the best thing i had. I looked at him and said. You realize youre going backwards it was the worst thing i could think of. He said who do you think you are. I didnt see my father for 10 years after that will be so your symbol of me. Because. He took a little to no book in his simple almost obvious to the. Day he. Was certain he was you show that i wonder if there was a date with you that you. Dont see yet or the way to. See it when we know what i wanted to. Know and it was you know it you know we just will get a little of the nobles. In 1974 deanna was denounced and became the target of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance a far right death squad she was forced into exile and settled in mexico with her partner the nephew of us you see in of the floor a founder of the mothers of plus today mio a group who campaigned for the disappeared. Once she said to me if we were at war and you were on the other side. I said your currency seriously id shoot you. That was in 1970 s. You know at that time vienna had taken on a norm to get elsa no one knew where she was you know later we found out she was in exile but we didnt get to say goodbye. On march 24th one. 176 and other military coup swept argentina the dictatorship that assumed control opened what became the most brutal chapter in the countrys history a facade of normality was maintained which even used the 1978 world cup as a smokescreen i the regime kidnapped tortured murdered and systematically disappeared thousands of citizens. While deanna p. S. Ola lived in exile in mexico her father and some other artists attended a dinner hosted by general videla leader of the military junta it took deanna years to forgive her father. Your practice