{"id":3634,"date":"2022-01-23T16:33:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T16:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tangodiario.com\/podcast\/hugo-baralis-1914-2002\/"},"modified":"2022-03-30T08:18:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T08:18:47","slug":"hugo-baralis-1914-2002","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/tangodiario.com\/en\/podcast\/hugo-baralis-1914-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Baralis (1914 – 2002)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hugo Baralis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Hugo Baralis <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

His cradle was a double bass, violinist Hugo Baralis told me when I visited him at his home in January 1999. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was born in Buenos Aires on April 2, 1914 and was the son of Hugo Ricardo Baralis, who had played double bass in the famous orchestras of Eduardo Arolas, Osvaldo Fresedo, Francisco Canaro and in the legendary Sextet of Julio de Caro. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victor Hugo Baralis began his musical career at the age of 15. Like his father, he played in his long career with the most innovative musicians of tango: from 1933 in the sextet of the violinist Elvino Vardaro, then in the Orquesta T\u00edpica of An\u00edbal Troilo, and later in many ensembles of Astor Piazzolla, among them the Octeto Buenos Aires and the Conjunto 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Baralis had experienced in his rich musical life was so interesting that my conversation with him \u2013 despite his 85 years \u2013 lasted an entire hour, supported by his wife and a few cigarettes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He told me what he liked about Elvino Vardaro’s sound and how special Anibal Troilo’s orchestra was. He told me about his close friendship with Astor Piazzolla and how they prepared jokes together to scare their colleagues, like this story of the frog sack. You’re going to hear it in our next podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen today to the first part of this interview with violinist Hugo Baralis, who died on February 4, 2002 at the age of 88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen also part 2 of the interview with Hugo Baralis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n