A fuego lento

• A fuego lento means “to a slow fire.” It was written in 1950-1.¹
• This piece: Salgán said A fuego lento piece was inspired by Rossini.

“Since childhood Italian opera has exerted a strong pull. Listening to Rossini’s Barber of Seville I found a fascinating passage, a bass part aria called Calumny where the text goes: ‘[Gossip] keeps on running, running, through the ears of the people.’ That aria, flowing without a halt to a crescendo, inspired me … to write a tango, perhaps the vanguard of all my tangos, To A Slow Fire.” 

Salgán²

1. Robert Farris Thompson, Tango: The Art and History of Love (New York: Vintage Books, 2005), 60.
2. Quoted in Tango: The Art and History of Love by Robert Farris Thompson (New York: Vintage Books, 2005), 197.