Tango y Cultura Popular ® English Edition TyCP Special | Page 24

Ángel D ›Agostino orchestra
director, who lived in Buenos
Aires from 1900 to 1991,
bachelor and gambler;
to address him properly;
revealed: “I›m milonguero,
I have always been, in the
best sense of the word. I was
a good dancer, and worked
along with the best, as ‹El
Mocho› and ‹La Portuguesa›,
also Casimiro Aín (the Tango
ambassador to The Vatican).
So –D´Agostino continued– I
created my orchestras based
El Mocho
on two main concepts, I
never left: respect on melody
line and, rhythmical stress to
make the dance easier”
Wearing the shoes of ‘music
provider’, and knowing the
secrets of Tango dancing –
the ‹Evil Dance› according to
Horacio Pagano–, Ángel
D›Agostino concluded, after
watching dancers for so
many years, that ‹El Mocho›
was the best: “a dandy who
needed no choreography, he
was the most genuine and
complete figure of a true
milonguero” he assured.
He brought back David
Undarz, “El Mocho” cited in
the Tango “Adiós Arrabal”
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