Astor's Speech

–Thank you very much
 –Muchas gracias.
 –I'll speak in two languages so you can understand me better.
 –Italiano!
 –No, italiano un posso. Posso parlare italiano ma non (...) sono italiano qui. (...) Grazie!
 –This is the music of Buenos Aires, the New Tango.
 –Esta es la nueva música de Buenos Aires, el Nuevo Tango.
 –Questa e la nuova musica di Buenos Aires, il Nuovo Tango. A bene!
 –We started this music in 1954.
 –Comenzamos en 1954
 –Abbiamo cominciato a mille novecento cinquanta quattro (...)
 –My name is Ástor Piazzolla, I was born in Argentina, I was raised in New York and my parents come from Trani, Italia. Un salutto.
 –And this strange instrument you see here that many people say it's an accordion, it's not an accordion, it's a bandoneon. It's an instrument that was invented in Germany in 1854 to play religious music in a church. It started in a church and then, a couple of years later, they took it to the whorehouses in Buenos Aires. And now I'm taking it to Central Park.
 –It's a nice tour for this instrument.
 –And it's not a joke, I'm not trying to be funny, it's the real life of this instrument. A very surrealistic life, but that's how Tango was born.
 –Tango was also and was always in nightclubs, cabarets, like Jazz in New Orleans.
 –It wasn't very clean at the beginning. Today it's supposed to be clean because this is clean: people, free music and love.
 –Thank you very much, I hope you enjoy our music."