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The
first group D’Arienzo formed was in society with Luis Visca,
but in 1933 he left the orchestra and D’Arienzo was left in
charge. The formation mentioned before is posterior to Visca’s
departure, when Rodolfo Biaggi was already part of the
orchestra. He was the one who gave the group the personal touch
with which it would be remembered, known as the “D’Arienzo
style”: giving more accentuation to the frequent ornaments and
“pianistic countersinging” in the acute register of the
keyboard. Most of the orchestras around that time adopted that
style. D’Arienzo and Biaggi’s orchestra consolidated the
traditional interpretative tango positions, focusing the
admiration of the part of the audience who loved dancing, thanks
to their repertories, specially based on the exhumation of old
pieces of music, which had been adapted to the orchestra’s way
of playing. Meanwhile, the evolutionist streams were trying to
enlarge their artistic possibilities with innovations that
reached their definite crystallization from 1940 on, which was
the starting point for another substantial transformation. We
can’t forget to talk about the exceptionally talented voices
that were part of D’Arienzo’s formations, some of which were
always related to the director’s style. Some
of them were Carlos Dante, Francisco Fiorentino, Rafael Cisca,
Walter Cabral, Mario Landi, Enrique Carble, Alberto Echagüe,
Alberto Reynal, Carlos Casares, Hectro Mauré, Juan Carlos
Lamas, Armando Laborde, Rodolfo Lemos, Mario Bustos, Jorge Valdés,
Horacio Palma, Hector Millpan and Osvaldo Ramos.
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