A PRIZE FOR THE SITE "TODOTANGO.COM.AR"

"Todotango.com.ar" won the night before yesterday the Matear de Oro on the first edition of this award, created to recognize the Argentine sites in Internet and sponsored by four chambers of the informatic area: Cabase, Cessi, Cicomra and Usuaria. "Todotango", that first won a Matear de Plata (Silver Prize) and later the Gold Prize, was chosen among the three final candidates for the category Folklore, among a total of 23, because the organizers had not foreseen tango as a different category. The winning site, born in August, is an iniciative of the Coleccionistas Porteños de Tango group, with design by Jorge Vilas and direction by Ricardo García Blaya. Its material, which is permanently widening and is bilingual (Spanish-English), allows to enter the universe of tango by multiple accesses, gradually shaping an enciclopedia of the genre.

The menu begins with "The artists". Within these are included musicians, poets and singers. The tour can lead to Anselmo Aieta or Agustín Bardi, to Homero Manzi or Enrique Cadícamo, to Charlo or Angel Vargas, among many others.

Of each of them there is a biographical sketch, and photos of the Bruno Cespi’s collection. The visitor can deviate towards the original lead sheets of several of the pieces they wrote and performed.

In "The selection", anthological versions can be found, which always avoid commonplace and can be free downloaded. The material is renewed periodically, with a strong presence of hard to find recordings, generally contributed by Héctor Lorenzo Lucci, president of the tango collectors. Something similar happens with "The radio", the section where the broadcasts of "Siempre el tango" can be heard, the program Néstor Pinsón conducts on Radio Nacional AM on Saturdays from 19 a 21, and that is online reaching to remote listeners lost in the world.

Gardel has obviously his special section, within which it can be enjoyed his voice in different recordings. In another Gardelian sector is alphabetically included a remarkable work of Orlando del Greco, which offers a summary the life and work of each of the hundred of composers and lyricists who had the luck to be interpreted and recorded by the Zorzal. The section "The library" offers a dictionary of lunfardo and other decoys, like complete discographies of different interpreters, or chronicles on various subjects, from the phenomenon of the estribillistas to a research by Emilio Zamboni about the tenor Tito Schipa’s adventure in tango. In "images" advertisements of the period can be seen, when phonographs and even pathephones, all meticulously well-kept by Lucci (and not only on paper), or the Parisian postcards "Le Tango", on which French women possessed by Argentine tango since the second decade of the century dance.