Lesley Karsten, accompanied by a live band, plays Piazzolla: “He challenged all the rules. Well, why can't I challenge the rules?' she says.
"I thought it was actually so much more interesting to have this kind of macho guy embodied by a woman." Karsten, a documentary filmmaker, pianist and singer, says. "He challenged all the rules. Well, why can't I challenge the rules? Why play it safe when you are developing a piece about a composer who didn't play it safe? That's part of his great strength and his legacy: He was brave and he took risks.
" is a musical monologue in which Karsten, as Piazzolla tells the audience his mythical story, traveling from the musician and composer’s boyhood on New York's Lower East Side to Argentina and back again, laying bare Piazzolla’s family and internal conflicts, his genius and thorny character, his inspirations and complicated relationship with Argentina, his musical manifesto and milestones.
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