Word: tango
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what it means to be an elite classical musician in the age of Clinton? One has a hard time picturing Mstislav Rostropovich pulling off his pants in front of reporters. Nor, for that matter, can one picture Pablo Casals recording albums with jazz singers or Texas fiddlers or Argentine tango musicians as Ma has done. Or either cellist initiating, as Ma has, an ambitious series of six hour-long films inspired by Bach's six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, involving collaborators as diverse as movie director Atom Egoyan, modern-dance choreographer Mark Morris, ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean...
...comments notwithstanding, Ma practices where he can--in hotels, airports, trains, the back of limos, by the side of the road and, if he's lucky, at home in Boston's suburbs, where he lives with his wife and two children. During a rehearsal last December with tango musicians in a New York City nightclub (he was touring in support of his album of Astor Piazzolla compositions, Soul of the Tango), Ma cracked, "The faster we play, the faster we can have dinner." It was a joke, of course, but it probably sprang from a very real impulse: at this...
Before the night was over, first-years performed every dance from the "Electric Slide" to the conga line. Members of the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team had a chance to show off their skills to a captive audience. Isabel De Sola '01 even received a short lesson in tango dancing from a team member...
Books on the tango decorate the living room coffee table on his 200-acre Virginia farm. Tango records are scattered about. A favorite partner in this dance fever is his dark-haired, thirtyish live-in mate, Luciana Pedraza, who hails from an upper-class Argentine family. The news has to flummox moviegoers who'd have guessed that the only music the 67-year-old actor could move to would be a Sousa march...
...unlikely event that his film career dries up, Duvall could try Broadway. We hear they're auditioning understudies for Forever Tango...