Tango en Skaï

Submitted by Weiss on Thu, 2008-05-22 09:41.

Bonjour,

It is said Tango en Skaï was "just" first an improvisation ! Could you please tell us the story of this piece ? Did you change something when you had to publish it ? An anecdote ?

Thanks for giving your time here.


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Submitted by Weiss on Thu, 2008-05-22 14:33.

Thanks for your answer.

I was ashamed of saying it was mine so I presented it in concerts as being a kind of "popular unknown Tango". Isn't it funny ? :)

Your most famous work... incredible story !

So this was the (true) story of Tango en skaï. Probably not a Masterpiece but certainly not an easy piece to play well neither, and especially with the appropriate mood..

And what do you think about the plethoric videos of this piece on You Tube !?


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Submitted by Roland Dyens on Fri, 2008-05-23 01:39.

Never go on You Tube, except when some friend of mine sends me an amazing stuff to watch at (and not about me though). But I've been told about these "plethoric videos" of Tango en skaï of course. My feeling about athat ? Sincerely pleased that guitarists have fun with it since decades now.

                            Bye Weiss.

                                           Roland



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Submitted by Roland Dyens on Thu, 2008-05-22 12:35.

Hello Weiss,

You won't believe me : I don't even remember that I wrote Tango en skaï some day. In fact, it is very probably something like the fruit of an improvisation I played during a party or something in the mid-seventees. Then I played it in concerts for years but without saying ever it was one of my compositions (again believe me or not : I was ashamed of saying it was mine so I presented it in concerts as being a kind of "popular unknown Tango". Isn't it funny ? :). Finally (years after so), a friend of mine told me I was foolish not only not to recognize it but, above all, not to publish it. So he really urged me to do it  it at the soonest. Then, on a day of 1985 (time flies, Weiss !) I pulled the door of the famous Publisher Henry Lemoine in Paris (I do remember quite well this very morning) and they fortunately quickly accepted to publish Tango en skaî (at that time it was much easier to have his stuffs published).

So this was the (true) story of Tango en skaï. Probably not a Masterpiece but certainly not an easy piece to play well neither, and especially with the appropriate mood..

            Bye and thanks for your interest in my music.

                   All the best in yours.

                                                    RD

PS/ Hopefully I'll write crazy arrangements on this Tango for 2, 3, 4, 158 guitars & more some day :). Plus maybe with other instruments (I wrote a version of it for guitar & Strings though). You never know..