American Record Guide, May-June, 2012

Excerpt from review of

"Encryptions" by the North Texas Wind Symphony/Eugene Corporon, GIA 872

Tango Variations by Evan Hause was written for the University of Michigan and also composed in 2009. Hause purposely tried to avoid writing in the more modern tango style of Piazolla; instead, he chose to study the music of tango from the 1930's. Of course, no tango could be complete without the colorful sounds of a bandoneon, and he has scored for that as well. After a short chromatic introduction, Tango Variations is given a primary theme and six later variations. Each one is distinctive in its voicing and mood, from the sublime and elegant to bawdy and vulgar.

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While each work here has its own merit, the high points are surely the works by Colgrass and Hause. Corporon and his North Texas Wind Symphony are almost in a league of their own.

...a delightful and clever homage to the tango tradition. Records International