CHARACTER. Benjamin El Payo Roque for 40 years was a true legend of Buenos Aires, an ally of Juarez Celman while he occupied the Presidency of the Republic. Great-uncle Grand Master His Excellency Don Carlos Gustavo Roque PhD Wash. (file photo NATION).
This tango by Juan Carlos Cobian and Enrique Cadícamo has facets worthy of being discussed again. Basically, it introduced the riddle of whether his name or is directly related recalls, according to the contents of the letter, with a character known Buenos Aires yesterday.
Hugo Gregorutti
Cobián music composed in 1920 as "Grand ballroom tango for piano", is an instrumental piece. Various circumstances that linked him with Martin Álzaga Unzué, better known as Macoco, allowed quite justifiably assume that he was the person who thought the famous pianist named this piece, which eventually established himself as a classic tango. Besides being your friend, met Macoco all conditions to be considered a shusheta. The direct meaning of this slang term is dandy, word English dictionary says as coming from the French: petit maître, ie master.
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Many biographers and researchers of our popular music, have devoted voluminous commentaries on the history of Shusheta and Buenos Aires was the conquistador who is mentioned in the letter post Cadícamo. We quote from these sources Aresi José Pedro, Juan Angel Russo and Sadaic testimony and the National Academy of Tango. Some agree that Álzaga Unzué Martin was the last of the Argentinian playboys. Was a young good-looking, athletic, wealthy and seductive, perfectly encuadrarían reasons that the figure that the slang term aims qualify. Others have mentioned a similar character of the time, Jorge Newbery.
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ATTEMPTS. But by incorporating the tango lyrics in question appears on the scene Enrique Cadícamo. The famous poet wrote in his memoirs that in 1922 he met personally Cobian, who would build a friendship and formed a line item bequeathed authorial other memorable pieces in the history of tango (nostalgia, bread and water, Ruby, The dizzy, The cottage of my old). Since 1929 and asked the pianist, Cadícamo put to various instrumental lines of production, including a Shusheta. The poet wrote two letters (the last in 1934) that differ radically from what would be famous and starts like this: All I saw Florida Street / with spats, top hat and cane ...
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Importantly, these early attempts were never registered, nor incorporated into any of the scores produced by Breyer timely Brothers Only on June 27, 1938, Juan Carlos Cobian enrolled in the final Sadaic Shusheta tango. According Cadícamo recount in 1944 Angel D'Agostino asked to adapt the piece to that time, because for then the Government had banned the use of slang. Cobián authorized to amend the title and that is how Shusheta became temporarily in the aristocratic, almost no alteration in the letter.
REVELATION. Says Juan A. Russo, Shusheta lyrics were inspired by Payo affirm Roque and adds: "This used to tell the Cadícamo own coffee at meetings." Add the said character, died October 5, 1930, was as chronicles of the time, "a characteristic figure of the bohemian ways, whose name was Benjamin Roque . Friend of all, coachs, great dancer and great tango singer, who had never worked as he lived on the benevolence of their friends. Including the president himself, Dr. Miguel Juarez Celman. " This approach to political investiture of Cordoba was elevated to a kind of public relations secretary, Don Juan to enjoy privileges, berretines and be coveted by ladies of the aristocratic society of Buenos Aires meetings. As he masterfully portrays him Cadícamo letter. Data would not let doubt that the character has been inspiring Shusheta determinant. As if this were not enough, one of many recordings, the singer's solo Hector Pacheco and in 1956, accompanied by the orchestra led by Carlos Garcia, closes the letter as follows: ... Florida Street Payo Roque. There are testimonies of who and when joined end to this powerful original lyrics.
STORY. The following is a verbatim paragraph of a long memory of the character's life, written by Rubén Darío, dated 11 / 9 / / 1922: "When I was in Buenos Aires was always a friend to see action at the Teatro San clown Martin. One night I appreciated the special talent show Payo Roque, to make friends and become friendly with his skills and ways, all kinds of people. Had read on arrival at the Rio de la Plata in his yacht, an English magnate, the Earl of Carnarvon , Lord Dudley, who was accompanied by an Indian prince, Duhlcep Sing. In between the theatrical performance, in a box I noticed a young British-style, accompanied by another black man he had in his right hand a ring with super gloss black. I was with them, apparently, a secretary. Payo I met him and said, 'Have you seen the Lord of England and the Prince of India? and are noted in the box. What was my surprise when I saw the role by continuing to sit in the box Roque, in cheerful conversation with the two exotic nobles. Later I came to Casa de Luzio, and as he saw, far past midnight, movement of young men who rose to the top with truffled turkeys and bottles of champagne, I asked what party was up, and a waiter told me: 'They are princes who are partying with the Payo Roque and some artists, "he said."
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Before concluding this review, we express our agreement with Roberto Selles, when one of his works says: "In the field of research, no statement is absolute."
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