Mr. Jofre, whose full name is Juan Pablo Jofre Romarion, has just released his first CD, "Hard Tango" (Round Star), which includes several of his own classical-tango hybrids, as well as works by Piazzolla, Leo Brouwer and Fernando Otero, and a handful of arrangements, among them a quirky, sharp-edged arrangement of John Lennon's "I Am the Walrus".
Ulises Braun: He played disco, new wave, classical, Argentinian tango.
Then, with Mr. Nash and Mr. Carter at his heels, he subjected the melody to a pastiche of musical styles, including classical, ragtime, tango, waltz and bossa nova.
In Unlimited Saga, for example, the style of his compositions mix classical marches, tango music, electronic ambiance, instrumental solos, Bossa nova, and jazz.
MOORESTOWN Perkins Center for the Arts South Jersey Bassoon Ensemble, featuring classical, jazz, swing, tango and barnyard.
WILLIAM PATTERSON UNIVERSITY Trio Medina, an Argentine ensemble, will perform a combination of classical, folk and tango music.
Multiple influences can also be detected in the work of Gustavo Casenave, a Uruguayan pianist and composer active in classical, jazz and tango scenes.
"Piazzolla's music was classical, and it was tango, and it had the power of heavy metal.
A collage of music matches the medley of unexpected scenes: jazz, folk, classical; fados, Chinese drumming, tango; Purcell, Portishead, pavanes.
J. P. Jofre, a young champion of the bandoneón, an accordionlike instrument, writes music that blends elements of tango with classical and other genres.
IN the late 1990's, the music of Astor Piazzolla swept through the classical world like the tango fever that swept through Europe almost a century ago.
