SHORT TAKES : Astor Piazzolla Out of Coma
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BUENOS AIRES — Tango composer and musician Astor Piazzolla, flown home in a coma from a clinic in Paris, has regained consciousness and may recover, his son said.
“Right now, my father is listening to a work by Bach,” Daniel Piazzolla was quoted Thursday as telling the newspaper La Nacion. “He is conscious in every sense, and his recovery seems almost a miracle.”
Piazzolla, 69, is the country’s best-known tango composer and a master of the bandoleon, the Argentine accordion that forms the instrumental basis for most tango music.
He suffered a brain hemorrhage in early August while in Paris between concerts in England and Italy and has been hospitalized since.
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