Felipe Pigna
08/28/2021 7:01 AM
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In that year 1926, Roberto Arlt published the disturbing novel
The Rabid Toy
;
Ricardo Güiraldes,
Don Segundo Sombra
;
Horacio Quiroga,
The exiled
s;
Nicolás Olivari,
The muse of the bad leg
and Raúl González Tuñón, his book of poems
El violín del diablo
.
Antonio Zamora began to publish the magazine
Claridad
and Julio Korn edited a magazine destined to become a success: The Modern Song.
At the National Theater Libertad Lamarque made her debut in
La piba de Montmartre
, singing
My Tattoo
.
An almost forgotten civil hero, Dr. Salvador Mazza, managed to get the University of Buenos Aires to send a
mission to Jujuy to fight against Chagas disease, which particularly affected the poorest.
Enrique Santos Discépolo premiered one of the most famous tangos
,
Quevachaché
, in which a woman makes a crude x-ray of the reality of those years before the crisis:
“What you need is to pack a lot of money, / Sell your soul, raffle your heart, / Throw away what little decency you have left ... /
Silver, a lot of silver!
I want to live!
/ So it is possible that you morphe every day,
/ You have friends, a house, a name ... and whatever you want. "
The song was premiered by Mecha Delgado in Montevideo, and in Buenos Aires at the Apolo Theater by Tita Merello in the magazine
Así da gusto vivir
.
Gardel will record it in Barcelona the following year.
The Thrush did not stop. He fully understood the importance of records as a way to earn income and as a means of dissemination.
Carlos Gardel.
/ Clarín Archive
The last months of 1926 were for Gardel a very intense recording activity.
The November records totaled 61 songs;
in December, when neither the 24th nor the 31st was taken franc, they "lowered" to 15;
Between February and October 1927, he recorded another 58 songs.
Among them were some wonders such as
Caminito
,
A media luz
, a new version of
El bulín de la calle Ayacucho
,
El Surgeja
, which gave the popular proverb the phrase “as with anger and junando”.
Yupanqui's admiration
Don Atahualpa Yupanqui tells in his memoirs
that one night in that year '26, on Corrientes Street, “it creaked like an earthquake when a green Lacroze tram passed by (which many times served as a bedroom for five cents for the 'worker' trip) ”, He went to the theater to listen to Carlos Gardel:
Atahualpa Yupanqui was amazed when he saw a Carlos Gardel show.
/ Clarín Archive
“I thoroughly enjoyed it for almost two hours.
I, who was never a tango player, who never learned to play a bit of tango, received with strong emotion Gardel's voice,
his accent, his way of marking words, his temperament, his overflowing sympathy, his quality as an artist
born to produce , in that genre, the purest popular beauty.
As my friend Reguera said, I got fat with emotion listening to sing ”.
(1)
Standing on the sidewalk of Los 36 Billares, a while later, the great Don Ata saw Gardel pass by, greeted by everyone and accompanied by friends
“with excited and happy faces.
Gardel was like Buenos Aires after having confessed.
The soul of the city honored him.
I had run out of a penny.
He was tired but happy, moved, grateful for the night.
He had won the night.
Nothing disturbed my sensitive world ”.
But
that night ended badly for Atahualpa.
Amazed, tired and without a weight, he lay down to sleep on a bench in Plaza Lavalle
.
He was awakened, not very kindly, by a "law enforcement officer" who, arguing the Law against vagrancy, took him to the police station.
Citations:
1. Atahualpa Yupanqui, This long road (Memories), cited by Ana Turón, https://museolibrogardel.blogspot.com/2020/02/atahualpa-yupanqui-sobre-carlos-gardel.html, from where the other appointments
EM
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