n outstanding event in the history of Tandil music was, undoubtedly, the arrival of Isaías Orbe. Born in Carmen de Areco, when he was still a child, with his family, he moved to Buenos Aires, where he studied music with maestros of the level of Julio De Caro.

Fate led him to Bahía Blanca where he, temporarily, quit music to devote himself to running the movie theaters Italiano of Coronel Dorrego and the one of Tandil.

He arrived in Tandil to definitively settle in 1933. In this city he fully devoted to his passion for music for four decades. He was educator in the Escuela Normal and in other institutions. He formed and conducted the Banda Infantil (Children’s band), in 1937 and 1938 he reorganized the Banda Municipal with a group of musicians that accompanied him and taught at the Escuela Municipal de Música (Municipal School of Music)(from 1981 it is the Provincial Music Conservatory that bears his name).

In the Band, the following preceded him as conductors: C. Durazzo, E. Rolfo, Juan Nielsen and Basanta. In 1951 Juan Onorato took over and later, Tomás Sellanes and José L. Capel, among others.

He also put together several choirs and, as violinist, he joined well-known trios and quartets. He belonged to Amigos de la Música (Friends of Music) and was the key element in the musical development of Tandil.

His daughter María Alicia Coty (pianist and choir director) and his son Aníbal (cellist) followed his steps and today, his grandson, Javier Logioia Orbe, is an outstanding orchestra conductor of international level, who conducted the Orchestra of the Teatro Colón when it was re-opened.

Don Isaías passed away in Tandil.

In SADAIC five pieces of his own are filed in the record: “Aún” (instrumental), “Desamor”, “La rumba del tiruli”; “Te fuiste” (tango) and “Vieja cancioncita” (waltz), in collaboration with Mario Clavell.

Source: Blog Historicus, by Daniel Eduardo Pérez