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Since
he formed his first orchestra, Miguel Caló always kept a very
high level of musical quality and of professional capacity when
choosing his musicians. Some of them were Orlando Goñi, Carlos
Campanone, Domingo Varela Conte, Luis Brighenti, Domingo
Cuestas, Alfredo Sciarreta, Raúl Kaplún, Osvaldo Pugliese,
Miguel Nijensohn, Pedro
H. Pandolfi, Hugo Gutierrez, Hamlet Calise, Calixto Sallago,
Orestes Zungri, Américo Cagiano, Salvador Caló, Pedro
Sapochnik, Francisco De Lorenzo and León Lípesker. In 1937,
Argentino Galván was in charge of the instrumental
arrangements, and the orchestra had an exceptional year. One of
the most important interpretative innovations he impelled was
“violinistic virtuosity”. Up to that moment, tango violins
had been limited to “singing” the melodies, and the most
representative exponents of this technique had been Agesilao
Ferrazzano, Cayetano Puglisi, Julio De Caro, Manlio Francia and
Elvino Vardaro. Howevwe, Argentino Galván used the talent of Raúl
Kaplún, first violin of the orchestra, writing for him
exceptionally difficult passages which required of all the
interpretative abilities the violinist had. That revolutionary
and virtuous way of playing the violin would reach its highest
level with the prodigious technicality of Enrique Mario Francini
and, later on, with Simón Bajour, Reynaldo Nichele and Fernando
Suárez Paz. By 1940, Miguel Caló integrated to his orchestra a
group of young musicians who turned the orchestra into a central
exponent of what was known as “the 40s generation”. All of
them, without exception, would become the best musicians of
their generation, if not of the whole tango panorama, without
chronological distinctions. That group Caló had created was
formed by Héctor Stamponi, and then Osmar Maderna, in piano;
Domingo Federico, Julio Ahumada, Antonio Ríos, Felipe
Ricciardi, José Cambareri, Armando Pontier, Carlos Lázzari and
Eduardo Rivira, who used to change places, in bandoneon; Enrique
Mario Francini, Aquiles H. Aguilar, Angel Bodas, Haroldo A.
Gessaghi y Mario Lalli, in violin; and Ariel Pedernera in
contrabass. The influence of pianist Osmar Maderna was prominent
in the orchestra’s structure. Maderna also was in charge of
the instrumental arrangements, replacing Argentino Galván and
Miguel Nijensohn in the job. |