Our choice for a Youtube's video of the week for the third week of July 2016 is a Tango "You Ask Me Why I Am not Crying" uploaded by Dr.240252 on July 8 - 2016.
Stanislawa Nowicka - a famous queen of Warsaw's biggest cabaret venues from 1930 through 1935 - specialized in the so called "Apache Tango" in which a woman - laments her tragic love for her beloved who is usually - a criminal of some sort. Nowicka - herself - came from a highly cultural Warsaw family and received an excellent musical education - still her husky, low voice was convincing in the Apache style Tango ballads to win her a big following throughout numerous, famous Warsaw cabaret venues. For some reason she left Poland in the middle 1930's - seemingly - on the top of her popularity - to spend the rest of her long life in New York City where she became prominent in several famous Polish Emigrees' circles.
This Tango was composed by a popular Tango composer Henryk Wars who frequently collaborated with Andrzej Wlast - a prominent lyricist/producer and director of numerous famous Warsaw musical/cabaret venues. Their partnership resulted in many magnificent Tangos and other pieces - even if some ignorant and vicious critics dubbed Andrzej Wlast - "the King of Kitch". Nevertheless his beautiful lyrics firmly resonate - until today with millions of his loyal fans.
At any rate - have a great third week of July 2016 - everybody - and as always - don't forget to click here - next weekend which will be the last week of July 2016 for our Choice of Youtube's Video of the Week!
Copyright@L.Hadley and Associates 2017
No comments:
Post a Comment