It is unusual for departmental deliberative centers , or nationals, representatives of the people take issues relating to popular music.
The exception, perhaps, of the Departmental Board of Montevideo. In this body the mayor Dari Mendiondo regularly takes the issue, highlighting the values \u200b\u200bthat characterize the tango, a creation of authentic stamp River Plate.
At its meeting on 28 May last yielded, simultaneously, two tributes and greeted endearing figures.
recalled the ninth anniversary of the departure of Donato Racciatti and day workers in the meatpacking industry. In this context, noted the presence in bars Roberto Bianco, canillita of Villa del Cerro, poet and chronicler, who lived in the historical picture of proletarian struggles. Evoking
Racciatti contribution to the diffusion of tango, said the teacher was born in Guilmi, italics province of Chieti in Abruzzo. He arrived at five months, with his father Mauro, his mother Rita and brother. Citing
family and friends, some linked to the Departmental Board, memorized the image of a great singer to accompany first to the maragato Francisco Canaro and, finally, Donato Racciatti: Carlitos Roldán.
For the years of the decade of 50 this artist attending the café La Cumparsita, located in Tristan Narvaja and Paysandu, which was attended by Don Lorenzo. Radio workers in May, among whom was Mendiondo-made their break through there. And Carlos Roldan, his songs and stories, every day, taught with warmth something of his art and his experiences. Citing a story
Robert Bianco, the municipal legislature finds that the Uruguayan orchestral director, as a child and returning from the Belgian Public School, stops at the door of a bar to hear from a radio, a powerful voice: that of Mercedes Simone, La Dama del Tango!
tight in these references can not fail to mention something that greatly influenced life Racciatti Donato. This is the time when his father gave him a bandoneon Double A. The young advance in their studies of music theory, harmony, instrumentation and pace in the blacksmith's trade at the University of Labour. Integra
Uruguayan and Argentine orchestras and formed his own band. Coming on success. Tours of Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and travel to Japan. Are staggered at this time enduring voices, such as Nina Miranda, Olga del Grossi and the Mercy Felix Romero. Is
Mendiondo Dari, concluding his presentation:
"... The bandoneon is a tiny body. The organ is the instrument par excellence, with which the great churches in Europe summoned the faithful, the faithful, who find music by the heavenly way, the mystical, spiritual, which allowed people to look at itself, looking for peace and happiness. In Germany had the problem that their processions to virgins, saints, idolized, had no music to accompany them. We had to invent a portable instrument that fulfilled the same functions of the organ. Perhaps, the origin of the bandoneon. Difficult to get
sounds and melodies.
That he did, since childhood, Mr. Donato Racciatti. " 
