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Tango. Roy and Silo (born 1987) were two male chinstrap penguins in New York City 's Central Park Zoo. They were noted by staff at the zoo in 1998 to be performing mating rituals, and one of them in 1999 attempted to hatch a rock as if it were an egg. This inspired zoo keepers to give them an egg from a pair of penguins, which could not hatch ...
On March 19, 1885, James E. Dillon was appointed to the Police Department as a "sparrow cop" in Central Park. In 1898, he was appointed to desk sergeant to the E. 35th Street Station. In 1899, he was appointed to lieutenant at the E. 126th Street Station. On January 4, 1904, he was appointed to captain.
AMT Theater. / 40.760065; -73.990536. The AMT Theater is an Off-Broadway theater venue located at 354 West 45th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was previously called the 45th Street Theatre from 2007 to 2012 [1] and the Davenport Theatre from 2014 to 2018, during which ...
In Argentina, the word Tango seems to have first been used in the 1890s. In 1902 the Teatro Opera started to include tango in their balls. [11] Initially tango was just one of the many dances practiced locally, but it soon became popular throughout society, as theatres and street barrel organs spread it from the suburbs to the working-class slums, which were packed with hundreds of thousands ...
Tango Argentino is a musical stage production about the history and many varieties of Argentine tango. It was created and directed by Hector Orezzoli [ 1] and Claudio Segovia, and premiered at the Festival d'Automne in Paris in 1983 and on Broadway in New York in 1985. The Mel Howard production became a world-wide success with numerous tours ...
Recorded in New York City in 1987, the album was produced by Kip Hanrahan and Piazzolla. Its music was originally developed as a theater performance about the history of the tango. Piazzolla, who played the bandoneon, recorded the album with his Quinteto Tango Nuevo. Paquito D'Rivera played saxophone on Rough Dancer.
Argentine tango is a musical genre and accompanying social dance originating at the end of the 19th century in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. [ 1] It typically has a 2. 4 or 4. 4 rhythmic time signature, and two or three parts repeating in patterns such as ABAB or ABCAC.
The 1898 consolidation created the city as it is today with five boroughs: Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. The first mayor of the expanded city was Robert Anderson Van Wyck . The longest-serving mayors have been Fiorello H. La Guardia (1934–1945), Robert F. Wagner Jr. (1954–1965), Ed Koch (1978–1989) and Michael ...