- Original Message
> From: Trini y Sean (PATangoS)
> To: Tango-L
> Sent: Wed, June 2, 2010 8:09:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Bachatango et al.
>
> ... Somehow back in the sands
> of time, someone decided to include vals and milongas along with tangos.
> We might never know who star
In programming practica playlists, I have also been reflecting on my one
time experience at Practica X whereby they played a cortina every so often.
But I cannot recall how often and long or whether it came after a certain a
milonga/vals tanda. Anyone been there recently and can shed some light o
Ron wrote...
.The music 100 years ago was different - the old 'guardia vieja'
style that had a faster tempo than what developed later in the 20s and
30s. We have few records of what the first 'milongas' were like, but
they were undoubtedly very different from what we have today in terms
> From: RonTango ronta...@rocketmail.com
>In Buenos Aires,
> the birthplace of tango, near the end of the 19th century, there was milonga
> and
> there was the vals brought from Europe by immigrants, but there was no tango.
>
There appear to be different historical versions of this. My under
