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” 24